Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1994, published 81st ILC session (1994)

Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) - Nicaragua (Ratification: 1967)

The Committee notes the Government's report. It also notes the information on the operation of the Technical Directorate of the Advancement of Women which comes under the National Technological Institute (INATEC), and whose objective is to promote women's participation in technical training with a view to their integration in the labour market in conditions of equal opportunity, by means of nationwide employment programmes.

1. The Committee notes the copy of the draft Organic Act of the Nicaraguan Institute for Women (INIM) provided with the report, and asks the Government to inform it when the above draft is adopted and to provide a copy of the regulations referred to in section 1 thereof.

2. Article 3(a) of the Convention. The information received gives no indication of any provision which establishes procedures for obtaining the cooperation of employers' and workers' organizations in promoting the acceptance and application of the policies proposed by the INIM. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would inform it of the measures adopted or envisaged pursuant to this Article of the Convention.

3. So that it may examine the policies and plans of the INIM, and in view of the fact that section 4(c) of the draft Organic Act of the INIM refers to an advisory body established by Decree No. 20-93 of 8 March 1993, the Committee would appreciate receiving a copy of the above Decree.

4. Since 1987 the Committee has been referring in its direct requests to the provisions of the Political Constitution of 1987 which prohibit discrimination and require the State to promote equality. It asks the Government to provide information on the measures taken or envisaged to give practical effect to the principle of equality laid down in the Constitution. The Committee again asks the Government to provide full information on this matter.

5. The Committee notes that the National Assembly has still not adopted the draft regulations of the Act on the Autonomy of the Atlantic Coast, which was submitted to the President of the Republic by the organizations of the ethnic groups of the Atlantic Coast. It asks the Government to provide: (a) a copy of the above-mentioned Act; (b) a copy of the draft regulations; and (c) detailed information on activities concerning the other ethnic minorities referred to in article 91 of the Constitution.