Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2009, published 99th ILC session (2010)

Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) - Ecuador (Ratification: 1962)

Indigenous rural workers. The Committee notes that, according to the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute (IESS), a total of 959,976 persons are covered by its Rural Social Security Scheme, and that they have access to its 581rural medical dispensaries. The Committee once again requests the Government to provide information on the ancestral, traditional and alternative practices integrated into the type of care provided by the Rural Social Security Scheme for the communities to which it referred in its previous report and the projections for the coverage of this sector of the population.

HIV/AIDS. The Committee notes the preparation of the methodological guide on responses to HIV/AIDS in the workplace which was drawn up in 2007 and which focuses on prevention, education, gender equity and non‑discrimination. Noting the proposed Comprehensive Act on HIV/AIDS, the Committee invites the Government to provide information in the progress achieved in its adoption.

Parts III–V of the report form. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on any judicial or administrative decisions relating to the application of the principle of the Convention, and on any cases of the violation of this principle identified by the labour inspection services. Please also provide up to date information on the situation of men and women, including Afro‑Ecuadorian and indigenous men and women, in the labour market and their distribution in the various occupations, jobs and economic sectors.