The DRC has ratified seven International Labour Organisation conventions, including one banning the worst forms of child labour, AFP reported, citing the country’s Labour Minister Marie-Ange Lukiana Mufwankolo. “With this move, the president and government of the DRC are showing their manifest determination to improve working conditions for the Congolese people,” she said during the annual general meeting of the Geneva-based ILO.
On Wednesday, the DRC signed the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention of 1999, with others covering the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise (1948), the Abolition of Forced Labour (1957), Minimum Age (1973), and texts against workplace discrimination and promoting working conditions and rights to representation. The ILO said in a statement that the DRC had joined a “small club of about 50 members” who have ratified conventions the organisation considers fundamental to human and workers’ rights.
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