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| | The Bureau for Workers |
 | | Six countries were singled out by the Conference’s Committee on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations for consistent and serious violations of labour rights and cited in special paragraphs of its report: Belarus, Colombia, Ethiopia, Myanmar (Burma), Sudan and Venezuela. |
 | | Belarus, Colombia, Ethiopia, Burma, and Venezuela were singled out by the Conference Committee on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations, for serious infringement of Convention 87 on freedom of association, while Sudan was pointed at for continued failure to implement Convention 29 on forced labour. |
 | | A special sitting of the Committee on Burma spelt out the conditions and criteria for a High-Level Team of the ILO to visit the country and assess the situation regarding forced labour. |
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