Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1991, published 78th ILC session (1991)

Rural Workers' Organisations Convention, 1975 (No. 141) - Afghanistan (Ratification: 1979)

The Committee notes the information contained in the Government's report on the role of the Central Council of Peasants' Co-operatives Union (of which mention had been made in previous reports) and asks the Government to explain under which legislation this organisation was created (for example, which section of the 1987 Labour Code is involved? Or is the Act concerning the organisation and working of agricultural co-operatives involved?). It also requests the Government to supply a copy of this Union's most recent statutes.

In addition, the Committee notes that the meaning of s.148(2) of the Labour Code is unclear in the unofficial English version of the text sent recently by the Government and other English versions of the Code. Could the Government clarify the role of the Central Council of the Trade Unions, including its "right to regulate normative documents in the light of the law"? In this connection, the Committee would recall that Article 3, paragraph 2, of the Convention, states that rural workers' organisations shall be independent and voluntary in character and shall remain free from all interference, coercion or repression.