On the ratification of the Convention on the Abolition of Forced Labour

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Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated December 14, 2000 No. 117-II

To ratify the Convention on the Abolition of Forced Labour (Convention 105), adopted in Geneva by the 40th session of the General Conference of the International Labour Organization on June 25, 1957.

President N.Nazarbayev of the Republic of Kazakhstan

International Labour Organization Convention No. 105 on the Abolition of Forced Labour (Geneva, June 25, 1957)

The General Conference of the International Labour Organization, convened in Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office and meeting on 5 June 1957 for its fortieth session, considered the issue of forced labour, which is the fourth item on the agenda of the session, taking into account the provisions of The 1930 Convention on Forced Labour, Whereas the 1926 Convention on Slavery stipulates that all necessary measures will be taken to ensure that compulsory or forced labour does not lead to conditions similar to slavery, and that the 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Customs Similar to Slavery provides for the complete abolition of debt bondage and serfdom, bearing in mind that the 1949 Convention on the Protection of Wages provides for the timely payment of wages and prohibits the use of any wage systems that deprive workers of a real opportunity. after leaving work, having decided to adopt additional proposals regarding the abolition of certain types of forced or compulsory labor, which violate the human rights mentioned in the Charter of the United Nations and proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, having decided to give these proposals the form of an international convention, adopts this twenty-fifth day of June one thousand nine hundred and fifty-seventh the following Convention, which may be referred to as the 1957 Convention on the Abolition of Forced Labor:

Article 1

Each Member of the International Labour Organization that ratifies this Convention undertakes to abolish forced or compulsory labour and not to resort to any form of it: (a) As a means of political influence or education, or as a measure of punishment for having or expressing political views or beliefs contrary to the established political, social or economic system; (b) As a method of mobilizing and using labor for economic development; (c) As a means of maintaining labor discipline; (d) As a means of punishing participation in strikes; (e) As a measure of discrimination based on race, social, nationality or religion.

Article 2

Each Member of the International Labour Organization ratifying this Convention undertakes to take effective measures for the immediate and complete abolition of those types of forced or compulsory labour listed in article 1 of this Convention.

Article 3

The instruments of ratification of this Convention shall be forwarded to the Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration.

Article 4

1. This Convention binds only those Members of the International Labour Organization whose instruments of ratification have been registered by the Director General. 2. It shall enter into force twelve months after the Director General registers the instruments of ratification of the two Members of the Organization. 3. Subsequently, this Convention shall enter into force for each Member of the Organization twelve months after the date of registration of its instrument of ratification.

Article 5

1. Any Member which has ratified this Convention may, after a period of ten years from the date of its initial entry into force, denounce it by means of an act of denunciation addressed to and registered by the Director-General of the International Labour Office. The denunciation takes effect one year after the registration of the act of denunciation. 2. Each Member of the Organization that has ratified this Convention, which does not exercise its right of denunciation provided for in this article within one year after the expiration of the ten-year period referred to in the preceding paragraph, shall be bound for a further period of ten years and may subsequently denounce this Convention after the expiration of each ten-year period in the manner specified in this article.

Article 6

1. The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall notify all Members of the International Labour Organization of the registration of all instruments of ratification and denunciation received by him from the Members of the Organization. 2. In notifying the Members of the Organization of the registration of the second instrument of ratification received by him, the Director General draws their attention to the date of entry into force of the Convention.

Article 7

The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall transmit to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, for registration in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations, full details of all ratifications and denunciations registered by him in accordance with the provisions of the preceding articles.

Article 8

Whenever the Governing Body of the International Labour Office considers it necessary, it shall submit to the General Conference a report on the application of this Convention and decide whether to include in the agenda of the Conference the question of revising this Convention in whole or in part.

Article 9

1. In the event that the Conference adopts a new convention providing for this Convention in whole or in part, and unless the new convention provides otherwise, then: (a) The ratification by any Member of the Organization of the new revising Convention will automatically entail, regardless of the provisions of Article 5, the immediate denunciation of this Convention, provided that the new revising Convention The Convention has entered into force; (b) As from the date of entry into force of the new revising convention, this Convention is closed for ratification by the Members of the Organization. 2. In any case, this Convention remains in force in form and content in respect of those Members of the Organization that have ratified it but have not ratified the new revising convention.

Article 10

The French and English texts of this Convention are equally authentic.

President

Republic of Kazakhstan

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