Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105) - Botswana (Ratification: 1997)

The Committee notes with satisfaction that the Trade Disputes Act (Cap. 48:02), which contained provisions punishing the participation in an unlawful industrial action by sanctions of imprisonment (involving compulsory prison labour), has been repealed by the new Trade Disputes Act No. 15 of 2004.

The Committee is addressing a request on certain other points directly to the Government.