Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 1994, publiée 81ème session CIT (1994)

Convention (n° 29) sur le travail forcé, 1930 - Ghana (Ratification: 1957)

The Committee notes that no report has been received from the Government. 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:

The Committee noted previously the provisions mentioned by the Government as applicable to prison labour. The Committee noted the enactments sent by the Government with its report for the period ending June 1991 i.e. the Criminal Code (Amendment) Decree, 1969; the Prisons Service Decree, 1972; the Prisons Regulations, 1958, which under section 53 of the Prison Service Decree, 1972, remain in force.

The Committee would appreciate if the Government would send with its next report a copy of the Prisons (Amendment) Regulation, 1970) (L.I. 648) and the Prisons (Declaration of Prisons) Instrument, 1971 (E.I. 22).