Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) - Afghanistan (Ratification: 1969)

Article 1(a) of the Convention. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes with satisfaction that the new Constitution adopted in November 1987 establishes, in article 38, equal rights for all citizens of Afghanistan, both men and women, irrespective of their national, racial, linguistic, tribal, educational and social status, religion, creed, political conviction, occupation, kinship, wealth and residence, and that it forbids all discrimination.

The Committee also notes with interest from the Government's reply to its previous comments concerning the omission of "political opinion" from the grounds of discrimination mentioned in section 8 of the new Labour Code (adopted in June 1987), that all discrimination in the field of employment has been abolished by the provisions of the Constitution and the Labour Code. The Committee hopes that, when the national legislation is next revised, "political opinion" will be set out formally among the grounds listed in section 8 of the Labour Code on which all discrimination is forbidden in employment and occupation and in working conditions, in accordance with the Convention.