Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Minimum Age (Underground Work) Convention, 1965 (No. 123) - Rwanda (Ratification: 1970)

Article 2 of the Convention. Minimum age for admission to employment or work in underground mines. In its previous comments, the Committee noted that the draft Ministerial Order determining the nature, the categories of enterprises and the list of types of work prohibited to children had been communicated by the Government.

The Committee notes with satisfaction the adoption of Ministerial Order No. 06 of 13 July 2010 determining the list of the worst forms of child labour, their nature and categories of institutions that may not employ children, which contains an extensive list of hazardous types of work prohibited to children, including works carried out on the surface or underground related to mining or works carried out underneath the water (section 4(1)), as well as in mining and quarry institutions, whether public or private (section 6(3)).

The Committee is raising other points in a request addressed directly to the Government.