Click here for the page dealing with this Convention as it applies in the UK in the context of this website. This 1961 treaty is intended to be progressively replaced by a revised charter opened for signature in 1996. The charter covers work and various other social issues. Article E in Part V is a non-discrimination clause. Unlike in the European Convention on Human Rights, an individual cannot bring a complaint.
Monitoring is based on reports from individual countries and non-governmental organisations.
Optionally a State may agree that trade unions, employers organisations and other organisations can make a complaint that the State is not complying with the Charter. However, so far as I know the UK has not opted to allow this. There is a separate page on the European Union .