Introduction

1. The Committee on Freedom of Association, set up by the Governing Body at its 117th Session (November 1951), met at the International Labour Office, Geneva, on 3, 4 and 10 November 1994 under the chairmanship of Mr. Jean-Jacques Oechslin, former Chairman of the Governing Body.

2. The Committee had before it, on the one hand, a complaint of infringements of trade union rights in the Côte d'Ivoire presented by the World Confederation of Labour (WCL) and, on the other, a complaint concerning the observance by the Côte d'Ivoire of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize Convention, 1948 (No. 87), made by a number of Worker delegates to the 79th (1992) Session of the International Labour Conference under article 26 of the Constitution of the ILO.

3. At its 256th Session (May 1993) the Governing Body adopted the interim conclusions submitted to it by the Committee in its 289th Report, and requested the Government to transmit detailed information on all the points mentioned in the recommendations.

4. The Committee submits for the approval of the Governing Body a further report on this case. The Committee recommends the Governing Body to examine this report at its 261st Session.