Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2004, published 93rd ILC session (2005)

Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention, 1983 (No. 159) - Yemen (Ratification: 1991)

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 2000 direct request, which read as follows:

The Committee notes the information contained in the first and second reports submitted by the Government. The Committee has not been able to undertake an analysis of the application of the Convention because none of the legislation mentioned in the Government’s reports was provided and is unavailable in the Office. Please send copies of the following:

-  Order No. 147 (1990) to establish a Strategy for Care and Rehabilitation of the Disabled;

-  Order No. 5 (1991) establishing the Supreme National Committee for the Disabled;

-  Presidential Order No. 9 (1991) establishing a fund for the care of the disabled;

-  the Act for care of the disabled, if adopted, or the draft with an indication of when the text will be adopted.

In addition, the Committee would appreciate receiving copies of any regulations relating to the above legislation, any additional information on policies and programmes implemented in accordance with this legislation that may be relevant, and any statistical information on the application of the Convention in practice (Part V of the report form).