Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2007, published 97th ILC session (2008)

Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105) - Lesotho (Ratification: 2001)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the following matters raised in its previous direct request:

Communication of texts. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would supply, with its next report, copies of the legislation in force in the following fields: updated and consolidated texts of the Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act; the laws governing the press and other media; the laws governing public assemblies, meetings and demonstrations; the law governing political parties; regulations governing conditions of employment for public officers, as set out by the Minister in accordance with section 14(1) of the Public Service Act 2005; the Disciplinary Code for public officers, to which reference is made in section 15(1)(a)(iii) of the Public Service Act 2005; and any provisions punishing participants in strikes declared unlawful under section 229(3) of the Labour Code, as amended by the Labour Code (Amendment) Act 2000.