Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1995, published 82nd ILC session (1995)

1. The Committee notes that the Government repeats its previous statement concerning the absence of discrimination of any form and difficulties of any kind in applying the Convention. It draws the Government's attention to paragraph 240 of its 1988 General Survey on equality in employment and occupation in which it stresses that it is difficult to accept statements to the effect that the application of the Convention gives rise to no difficulties or is fully applied, especially when no other details are given on the contents and methods of implementing the national policy on equality of opportunity and treatment in employment and occupation. The Committee therefore asks the Government - as it has been doing in its direct requests for some years - to provide detailed information on the affirmative measures taken or envisaged in practice to facilitate and encourage the access of women and disadvantaged ethnic groups to training (particularly professional and university training) and employment in all sectors of activity and occupations and at all levels of responsibility. Please refer in this connection to paragraphs 166 to 169 of the Committee's General Survey, mentioned above, in which it specifies the concept and content of affirmative action or action to correct de facto inequalities in training and employment and to promote equal opportunity and treatment for certain groups of society which suffer from discrimination, particularly women and disadvantaged ethnic groups.

2. The Committee notes that the general statistics in the report concerning the distribution of men and women concern only six ministries and not the whole of the public administration and public enterprises, as the Committee has been requesting for several years. It must therefore repeat its request for detailed and complete statistics on the staff of the whole public administration and all public enterprises, with an indication of the percentage of men and women at different levels of responsibility, together with information on the measures taken or envisaged to facilitate women's access particularly to the different jobs in the public sector, including those traditionally reserved for men and management posts.

3. With regard to the Government's previous indication concerning the computerization of the management of employment as the only means of obtaining the statistical data requested, and its statement in the latest report that such information is not yet available, the Committee hopes that in its future reports the Government will be able to provide statistics, disaggregated by sex, concerning access to training and the various jobs and occupations, particularly the data collected and published periodically by the Minister of Labour, the Ministry of National Education, the General Directorate for the Status of Women and other relevant institutions.