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Belarus - Discrimination and Equality The following indicators should be considered when conducting assessments of compliance (click on links for details): Legal Framework
Government Performance
Overall Outcomes
Associated Factors
International Sources ILO Yearly data of Total and Economically active population, Employment, Unemployment, Hours of Work, Wages, Labour Cost, Consumer Price Indices, Occupational Injuries, Strikes and Lockouts: 1969-2002 This database supplies information on national labor administrations. This source provides quantitative data on a set of 20 core labor market indicators. KILM 1 provides data on labor force participation rates by gender and age group. KILM 2 provides data on employment-to-population ratio. KILM 3 provides data on wage and salaried workers and self-employed workers (by gender). KILM 4 provides data on the proportion of workers (by gender) in agriculture, industry, and services. KILM 5 provides data on part-time workers (by gender). KILM 6 provides data on the number of persons working more than 40 hours a week as a percentage of total employment. KILM 7 provides data on urban informal sector employment (number of people employed by gender and percentage of urban employment by gender). KILM 8 provides data on the number of unemployed workers by gender and the unemployment rate for males/females. KILM 14 provides data on educational attainment of population 25 years and older, including tertiary education. KILM 15 provides data on nominal and real manufacturing wage indices for male/female. KILM 18 includes data on poverty and income distr Reports to the ILO Governing Body may contain information on country requests and participation in technical assistance projects. International Labor Organization Information on ratification status, Article 22 reports and comments from the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations. This database contains information from governments, employers' and workers' organizations, that have a role to play under the Follow-up to the ILO Declaration and Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. As part of the Follow-up to the Declaration, the ILO Director-General submits a Global Report on one of the four categories of fundamental principles and rights at work to the tripartite International Labour Conference each June. Database of national labour, social security and related human rights legislation maintained by the ILO's International Labour Standards Department. Records in NATLEX provide abstracts of legislation and relevant citation information, and they are indexed by keywords and by subject classifications. Each record in NATLEX appears in only one of the three ILO official languages (English/French/Spanish). ILOLEX is a trilingual database containing ILO Conventions and Recommendations, ratification information, comments of the Committee of Experts and the Committee on Freedom of Association, representations, complaints, interpretations, General Surveys, and numerous related documents. International Labor Organizaton An Information Base on Equal Employment Opportunities for Women and Men, which sets out international policy instruments including international labour standards as well as national legislation, policies, practices and institutional arrangements introduced by a range of governments, trade unions and public and private sector enterprises. Social Watch Provide qualitative information related to poverty, equality, and education. UN Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Statistical tables provide quantitative data related to poverty and economic development, gender, and education. UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) The Institute for Statistics collects quantiative information on education (access and participation, resources, literacy and attainment). See also metadata for source notes and definitions. UNICEF Statistics section provides a snapshot of economic and social indicators (from the State of the World's Children Reports). United Nations Includes State Party Reports and the Conclusions and Observations of UN Committees relating to the CCPR, CEDAW, CERD, CESCR, CMW, CRC. World Bank This database provides gender-related information on health, labor force participation, and educational attainment by country and region. Provides statistical information on poverty and economic development, gender, child labor, and education. Includes information on definitions and sources. National Sources Government, Belarus Potentially useful information available in English Ministry of Education, Belarus Potentially useful information is available in Russian only. Ministry of Justice, Belarus Potentially useful information is available in Russian only. Ministry of Labor, Belarus Website was not opening properly at time of research. Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, Belarus Potentially useful information. English version available. Ministry of Statistics and Analysis, Belarus Statistical information available in English National Center of Legal Information of Belarus Belarus Legislation Databank "ETALON" is full-text search system containing more than 45000 legal acts issued by the President, Parliament, Government, National Bank, ministries, Constitutional Court, Supreme Court, Supreme Economic Court, and international treaties. Russian and Belarusian version of the Belarus Legislation Databank can be acquired on CDs. On-line version of the Belarus Legislation Databank contains the complete set of laws of the Republic of Belarus, acts of the President of the Republic of Belarus and the Government's decisions (only in Russian and Belarusian language). More than 100 legal acts translated into English. U.S. Government Sources U.S. State Department Section 5 covers "Discrimination Based on Race, Sex, Disability, Language, or Social Status Nongovernmental Organizations Child Rights Information Network The information network compiles information regarding the Convention on the Rights of the Child and child rights according to theme and country. Themes include child rights, armed conflict, disability, discrimination, education, health, HIV/AIDS, juvenile justice, macroeconomics, media, sexual exploitation, UN special session on children, and violence against children Human Rights Watch Country reports examine the most pressing human rights issues in each country. These differ for each country, as do the frequency of the reports for each country. International Confederation of Free Trade Unions Brief country-specific reports on issues of compliance with internationally recognized core labor standards. The 2003 edition of the Annual Survey details violations of trade union rights in 133 countries during the year 2002. These violations range from provisions in national legislation which restrict legitimate trade union activity, through outright bans on freedom of association, to intimidation, wrongful detention, torture and murder of trade unionists. International Women's Rights Action Watch (IWRAW) An archive of country reports submitted to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Publications on international women's rights can be ordered. Lawyers Committee for Human Rights This database contains approximately 2,500 units of measurement on workers rights, extracted from approximately 100 public and confidential source documents including guidelines and questionnaires used by monitoring organizations, multinational corporations, and trade associations; public reports by governmental bodies and non-government organizations; public corporate reports; and others. Database provides indicators and source lists, but no specific data. Social Accountability International SA8000, a voluntary workplace standard patterned on those of the International Organization of Standardization was created in 1997 by the Council on Economic Priorities (a U.S. NGO), and is administered by another NGO, Social Accountability International (SAI). Solidar Updates include news snippets on trade and labor standards, with special attention to the role of the European Union in the WTO Viasna Human Rights Center "Viasna" registered violations of human rights in Belarus, first of all those connected with elimination of the constitutional freedoms of the citizens: the right to expression, peaceful assemblies, meetings, associations, the freedom of choice and liberty of discussion, equality in rights and dignity, the right to work, life and privacy Women's Human Rights Resources Compilation of articles, documents, books, references to conventions and laws, and links with information on women's international human rights law Academic and Other Research University of Melbourne Legal Research Centre Database includes links to laws by jurisdiction |
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