Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 2000, publiée 89ème session CIT (2001)

In addition to the numerous activities the Government has been undertaking over the years to promote gender equality, the Committee notes with interest the wide range of measures recently taken by the Government to promote equality of opportunity on grounds of race and national extraction in access to employment and occupation including the Governmental Plan of Action to Combat Racism and Discrimination (1998-2001), the establishment of a Centre to Combat Ethnic Discrimination, the creation of a committee to review legislation on racial discrimination, and the database for recognition of foreign workers’ academic qualifications.  It also notes the Government’s public apology for past injustices to the Roma people (travellers) in February 1998.

The Committee is raising other points in a request addressed directly to the Government.