107.32
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend existing laws to prohibit all of the worst forms of child labour and align with ILO standards on child labour and minimum age for employment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
81.100
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Reform the labour code, within the next 12 months, to prohibit sexual harassment in the workplace, while ensuring its effective enforcement
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
81.96
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Reform the law to include provisions that expressly prohibit the use of children for prostitution, pornography or pornographic performances
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
137.75
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase efforts to proactively identify sex trafficking and labour trafficking victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Trafficking
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
157.139
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enhance efforts to combat human trafficking by vigorously investigating and, as appropriate, prosecuting and convicting traffickers; addressing systemic deficiencies in victim identification, referral and assistance; and providing specialized accommodation for victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Trafficking
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
157.81
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve implementation of laws against discrimination, particularly to protect access to housing and health for immigrants and members of racial, ethnic and religious minority groups, including Travellers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Right to housing
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
121.159
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Further strengthen efforts to counter and prevent trafficking in persons, including by, where appropriate, prosecuting traffickers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Trafficking
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
130.216
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Conduct thorough, transparent and credible investigations into reports of abuses against asylum seekers and migrants, including pushbacks at sea that endanger the lives of migrants, destruction of identity documents and the forcible deportation of asylum seekers holding valid residency credentials
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
106.155
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Identify and protect children from sexual exploitation, reduce instances of child labour by increasing labour inspections and expand protections to the informal sector
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
159.232
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Register and verify all Tibetan, Bhutanese and other refugees followed by issuance of identity documents with the formal right to work and access services
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
99.17
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
86.128
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve protections for victims and accountability for perpetrators of sexual assault, violence against women and human trafficking crimes, including with regard to children trafficked for forced labour and commercial sex
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
33.169
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
End government discrimination against the Rohingya, including laws which effectively render most Rohingya stateless and unable to gain access to education and livelihoods
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Labour rights
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
139.154
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Work to combat discrimination against women and improve access for persons with disabilities in the workplace
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Labour rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
134.239
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enact reforms to end the kafalah employment sponsorship system
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Aug 2, 2021
134.127
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the labour law to extend protections such as a minimum wage and maximum working hours to domestic workers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Date added
- Aug 2, 2021
146.314
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase support for refugees and asylum seekers by reducing barriers to labour markets and education and by providing access to health-care facilities, especially those aimed at improving mental health
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Labour rights
- Right to education
- Right to health
- Date added
- Aug 2, 2021
103.208
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Thoroughly investigate and enforce existing regulations on incidents of forced child labour and increase criminal penalties to better deter the recruitment, employment or facilitation of such labour
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
140.38
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to permit lawful labour, political and social protests, and to safeguard activists’ and human rights defenders’ rights to speak and peacefully assemble freely, without harassment, and unimpeded by inappropriately applied administrative impediments
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Human rights defenders
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Nov 9, 2020
139.84
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Uphold freedom of assembly by ensuring that criminal statutes, such as section 15 of the Public Order (Amendment) Act, are not used to curtail workers’ rights to form and join trade unions and to assemble
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Nov 9, 2020
139.137
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Allow independent trade unions to flourish by passing and implementing amendments to bring the law on trade unions into compliance with ILO Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention 1948 (No. 87)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
148.158
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Intensify efforts to effectively screen for labour trafficking victims through increased inspections and improved training of labour inspectors and refer victims for services, particularly in the agriculture and service sectors
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
101.145
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
End forced labour by ensuring the consistent implementation of new labour protections, including by local governments
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
155.156
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure human traffickers are prosecuted for “trafficking” and sentence those convicted with punishments reflecting the severity of the crime; and institute a public awareness campaign about forced labour, to include the protections available for victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Labour rights
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
147.109
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the Bangladesh Labour Act and Export Processing Zone Labour Act, in consultation with workers and employers, to ensure the provisions on freedom of association conform to international labour standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
110.152
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement the National Action Plan for the Elimination of Child Labour and address the factors that promote child labour
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- National action plan
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
80.119
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Criminalize the sex and labour trafficking of children within the country and specify definitions in the Criminal Code for light and hazardous work in order to more clearly define child labour abuses
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
100.102
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen enforcement of all labour laws by increasing the number of labour inspections and imposing penalties sufficient to deter violations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
121.27
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen efforts to identify and protect victims of labour and sex trafficking and to hold traffickers accountable, including by acceding to the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Convention against Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
118.188
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve compliance with child labour laws by dedicating more resources to enforcement, particularly in the informal economy
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020