Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1992, published 79th ILC session (1992)

Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29) - Angola (Ratification: 1976)

1. In earlier comments, the Committee noted that under sections 2 and 3 of Order No. 12/75 of 15 October 1976 an Emergency Industrial Committee is empowered to call up technicians of public or private undertakings for the period considered necessary for the solution of problems. The Committee also noted that under section 2 of Order No. 44/83, of 21 May 1983, the recruitment of workers whose occupation meets the training needs of the special youth brigades is to take the form of a call-up, the worker being assigned to one of the brigades for a period of 90 days.

The Government has indicated on several occasions that the above texts were no longer applied in practice and, in its last report, stated that they had been tacitly repealed by the adoption of Act No. 12/91 of 6 May 1991 amending the Constitution.

The Committee asks the Government to take the necessary steps to bring the national law formally into line with the Convention by repealing or amending explicitly the above provisions to ensure that there is no doubt as to their application and that positive law reflects practice which, according to the Government, is already in force.

2. The Committee notes the Prison Regulations (Regulamento do regime progressivo) of 9 July 1981, communicated by the Government.

3. The Committee requests the Government to provide copies of the laws and regulations governing the conditions of engagement in the armed forces.