The complaints procedure was set in motion for the first time on the initiative of a member State in 1961, when the government of Ghana filed a complaint concerning the application by Portugal of the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No, 105) in its African territories. A few months later a second complaint was filed, by Portugal concerning the application by Liberia of the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 ( No. 29). The procedure followed was similar in both case. The Governing Body set up Commissions of Inquiry, each composed of three members who were appointed on the proposal of the Director-General of the International Labour Office. These member were personalities of the highest standing appointed in their personal capacity. Both the Governing Body and the Commissions themselves stressed their independent character and the judicial nature of their functions. The members were required to make a solemn declaratian in the same terms as that of judges of the International Court of Justice, undertaking to perform their duties “honourable, faithfully impartially and conscientiously”.
1. see the reports of the two commissions: O.B.1962, No.2, Suppl.II and O.B1963, No.2,Suppl.II
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