Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2006, published 96th ILC session (2007)

Implementation of a national policy. The Committee notes the Government’s detailed and full report received in January 2006. With regard to its direct request of 2000, the Committee notes with interest the document on progress in the policies, programmes and action relating to disability prepared by the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance and its related services (June 2005), and the first national study of disability in Chile (2004), which contains full information for each of the regions of the country. The Committee notes with interest the efforts made and requests the Government to continue providing information in future reports on the results achieved through public policies and private initiatives intended to achieve the integration of persons with disabilities into the open labour market.