Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 2021, Publicación: 110ª reunión CIT (2022)

Convenio sobre la abolición del trabajo forzoso, 1957 (núm. 105) - Bosnia y Herzegovina (Ratificación : 2000)

Impact of compulsory prison labour on the application of the Convention. Brčko District. With respect to its previous request concerning the voluntary character of the work performed by convicts, the Committee notes that by virtue of section 112(1) of the Criminal Code of the Brčko District of 2003, convicted persons sentenced to imprisonment may work only with their consent. The Committee further observes that the violation of the legislation governing political parties, assemblies, meetings and demonstrations in the Brčko District, in particular the Law on Peaceful Gathering of 29 July 2020, the Law on Political Organizations of 29 August 2002, the Law on Public Assembly of 25 July 2012, and the Law on Public Order and Peace of 14 October 2009, is punishable by a fine.