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PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW COMPENDIUM VOLUME II

ARTICLE 1

Each Member of the International Labour Organisation

which ratifies this Convention undertakes to suppress

and not to make use of any form of forced or compulsory

labour —

(a) as a means of political coercion or education or as a

punishment for holding or expressing political views or

views ideologically opposed to the established political,

social or economic system;

(b) as a method of mobilising and using labour for

purposes of economic development;

(c) as a means of labour discipline;

(d) as a punishment for having participated in strikes;

(e) as a means of racial, social, national or religious

discrimination.

ARTICLE 2

Each Member of the International Labour Organisation

which

ratifies

this

Convention

undertakes

to

take

effective

measures

to

secure

the

immediate

and

complete abolition of forced or compulsory labour as

specified in Article 1 of this Convention.

ARTICLE 3

The

formal

ratifications

of

this

Convention shall be

communicated

to

the

Director-General

of

the

International Labour Office for registration.

ARTICLE 4

1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those

Members of the International Labour Organisation whose

ratifications

have

been

registered

with

the

Director-General.

2. It shall come into force twelve months after the date on

which

the

ratifications

of

two Members have been

registered with the Director-General.

3. Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any

Member twelve months after the date on which its

ratification has been registered.

ARTICLE 5

1. A Member which has ratified this Convention may

denounce it after the expiration of ten years from the

date on which the Convention first comes into force, by

an act communicated to the Director-General of the

International

Labour

Office

for

registration.

Such

denunciation shall not take effect until one year after the

date on which it is registered.

2. Each Member which has ratified this Convention and

which does not, within the year following the expiration

of the period of ten years mentioned in the preceding

paragraph, exercise the right of denunciation provided for

in this Article, will be bound for another period of ten

years and, thereafter, may denounce this Convention at

the expiration of each period of ten years under the terms

provided for in this Article.

ARTICLE 6

1. The Director-General of the International Labour Office

shall notify all Members of the International Labour

Organisation of the registration of all ratifications and

denunciations communicated to him by the Members of

the Organisation.

2. When notifying the Members of the Organisation of

the registration of the second ratification communicated

to him, the Director-General shall draw the attention of

the Members of the Organisation to the date upon which

the Convention will come into force.

ARTICLE 7

The Director-General of the International Labour Office

shall communicate to the Secretary-General of the United

Nations for registration in accordance with Article 102 of

the Charter of the United Nations full particulars of all

ratifications and acts of denunciation registered by him in

accordance with the provisions of the preceding Articles.

ARTICLE 8

At such times as it may consider necessary the Governing

Body of the International Labour Office shall present to

the General Conference a report on the working of this

Convention and shall examine the desirability of placing

on the agenda of the Conference the question of its

revision in whole or in part.

ARTICLE 9

1.

Should

the

Conference

adopt

a

new

Convention

revising this Convention in whole or in part, then, unless

the new Convention otherwise provides:

a) the ratification by a Member of the new revising

Convention

shall

ipso

jure

involve

the

immediate

denunciation of this Convention, notwithstanding the

provisions of Article 5 above, if and when the new revising

Convention shall have come into force;

b) as from the date when the new revising Convention

comes into force this Convention shall cease to be open

to ratification by the Members.

2. This Convention shall in any case remain in force in its

actual form and content for those Members which have

ratified it but have not ratified the revising Convention.

ARTICLE 10

The English and French versions of the text of this

Convention are equally authoritative.

(Convention Concerning the Abolition of Forced Labour,

[June 25, 1957])

Discrimination (Employment and

Occupation) Convention

June 25, 1958

DISCRIMINATION (EMPLOYMENT AND OCCUPATION)

CONVENTION, 1958 (NO. 111) *

The

General

Conference of the International Labour

Organisation,

Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body

of the International Labour Office, and having met in its

forty-second session on 4 June 1958, and

Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals

with regard to discrimination in the field of employment

and occupation, which is the fourth item on the agenda

of the session, and

Having determined that these proposals shall take the

form of an international Convention, and

Considering that the Declaration of Philadelphia affirms

that all human beings, irrespective of race, creed or sex,

have the right to pursue both their material well-being

and their spiritual development in conditions of freedom

and dignity, of economic security and equal opportunity,

and

Considering

further that discrimination constitutes a

violation

of

rights

enunciated

by

the

Universal

Declaration of Human Rights,

Adopts this twenty-fifth day of June of the year one

thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight the following

Convention, which may be cited as the Discrimination

(Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958:

ARTICLE 1

1.

For

the

purpose

of

this

Convention

the

term

"discrimination" includes:

(a) Any distinction, exclusion or preference made on the

basis

of

race,

colour,

sex,

religion,

political

opinion,

national extraction or social origin, which has the effect of

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