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HUMAN RIGHTS AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION ACT 1986 No. 125 of 1986 - SCHEDULE 1

                                   SCHEDULE 1                         Section
3 
CONVENTION CONCERNING DISCRIMINATION IN RESPECT OF
EMPLOYMENT AND OCCUPATION
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 wellbeing 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 nullifying or impairing
        equality of opportunity or treatment in employment or occupation;

   (b)  such other distinction, exclusion or preference which has the effect
        of nullifying or impairing equality of opportunity or treatment in
        employment or occupation as may be determined by the Member concerned
        after consultation with representative employer's and worker's
        organisations, where such exist, and with other appropriate bodies.
2. Any distinction, exclusion or preference in respect of a particular job
based on the inherent requirements thereof shall not be deemed to be
discrimination.
3. For the purpose of this Convention the terms "employment" and "occupation"
include access to vocational training, access to employment and to particular
occupations, and terms and conditions of employment.
Article 2
Each Member for which this Convention is in force undertakes to declare and
pursue a national policy designed to promote, by methods appropriate to
national conditions and practice, equality of opportunity and treatment in
respect of employment and occupation, with a view to eliminating any
discrimination in respect thereof.
Article 3
Each Member for which this Convention is in force undertakes, by methods
appropriate to national conditions and practice-

   (a)  to seek the co-operation of employers' and workers' organisations and
        other appropriate bodies in promoting the acceptance and observance of
        this policy;

   (b)  to enact such legislation and to promote such educational programmes
        as may be calculated to secure the acceptance and observance of the
        policy;

   (c)  to repeal any statutory provisions and modify any administrative
        instructions or practices which are inconsistent with the policy;

   (d)  to pursue the policy in respect of employment under the direct control
        of a national authority;

   (e)  to ensure observance of the policy in the activities of vocational
        guidance, vocational training and placement services under the
        direction of a national authority;

   (f)  to indicate in its annual reports on the application of the Convention
        the action taken in pursuance of the policy and the results secured by
        such action.
Article 4
Any measures affecting an individual who is justifiably suspected of, or
engaged in, activities prejudicial to the security of the State shall not be
deemed to be discrimination, provided that the individual concerned shall have
the right to appeal to a competent body established in accordance with
national practice.
Article 5
1. Special measures of protection or assistance provided for in other
Conventions or Recommendations adopted by the International Labour Conference
shall not be deemed to be discrimination.
2. Any Member may, after consultation with representative employers' and
workers' organisations, where such exist, determine that other special
measures designed to meet the particular requirements of persons who, for
reasons such as sex, age, disablement, family responsibilities or social or
cultural status, are generally recognised to require special protection or
assistance, shall not be deemed to be discrimination.

Article 6
Each Member which ratifies this Convention undertakes to apply it to
non-metropolitan territories in accordance with the provisions of the
Constitution of the International Labour Organisation.
Article 7
The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to the
Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration.
Article 8
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 9
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 10
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 11
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 12
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 13
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 9 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 14
The English and French versions of the text of this Convention are equally
authoritative. 


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