Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2002, published 91st ILC session (2003)

Paid Educational Leave Convention, 1974 (No. 140) - Afghanistan (Ratification: 1979)

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 matters raised in its 1998 direct request, which read as follows:

Article 2(c) of the Convention. Please indicate the measures taken or envisaged for the granting of paid educational leave for the purpose of trade union education.

Article 6. The Committee notes the Government’s statement to the effect that it is endeavouring to involve employers’ and workers’ organizations with the policy for the promotion of paid educational leave. The Committee requests the Government to describe the manner in which these organizations are contributing, in practice, to the formulation and application of this policy.

Moreover, the Committee recalls that the Government is required, under the provisions of Article 8 of the Convention, to take the necessary measures to ensure that workers enjoy equality of access to paid educational leave irrespective of their race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social origin. The Committee requests the Government to provide information in its next report on the measures taken to this effect.