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workers' organisations to provide information, in such form as the Governing Body may determine, on the action taken against apartheid in accordance with recommendations contained in the Appendix to the updated Declaration, including information on failure to take action and on the active promotion of relations which strengthen the apartheid system;

(b) Invites the Governing Body's Committee on Discrimination to consider the information described in sub-paragraph (a) above, and to submit a report to the Conference Committee on Apartheid.

6. Invites the Governing Body and the Director-General to take the necessary steps-

(a) to increase the ILO's educational activities and technical assistance to the liberation movements, the Black workers and their independent trade unions in South Africa, in close co-operation with the Organisation of African Unity, the Special Committee against Apartheid and the Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations, the international and African workers' and employers' organisations and the front-line States and those States in the neighbourhood of South Africa which are seriously affected by the aggressive actions of South Africa, in particular by:

(i) an increase in the resources made available from the ILO regular budget, and from external sources on a bilateral or multilateral basis, for enlarging the ILO's capacity to combat apartheid and to provide assistance to its victims;

(ii) the establishment of a voluntary fund for the workers of South Africa, to which contributions should be made regularly by ILO member States as well as by employers' and workers' organisations;

(iii) the broadening of the scope of ILO assistance to liberation movements from southern Africa recognised by the Organisation of African Unity, in particular by the use of its technical services in the fields of vocationa! training, labour administration, occupational safety and health, rural development, workers' education, co-operative development, equality of treatment for women workers and advice on the elimination of dis- criminatory labour legislation;

(iv) the establishment of a training institute for South Africa, designed more

specifically for the promotion of manpower training and development; (v) assistance to the States providing facilities for refugees from South Africa and Namibia at institutions of their own through the provision of equipment, expertise and fellowships;

(vi) the creation of training facilities and employment opportunities for refugees in their countries of refuge in such a way that their skills will be of immediate use and also of assistance to their countries of origin upon their return;

(vii) co-operation with the governments of the States in the immediate neighbourhood of South Africa in devising and implementing policies which will enable them to reduce their dependence on South Africa, and in particular the supply of migrant labour to South Africa;

(viii) assistance in the establishment of long-term solutions to problems involving migrant labour including public works programmes and other labour-intensive forms of job creation; the provision, over the short term, of assistance to migrant workers through advice on negotiations concern- ing their terms and conditions of employment, and through enabling migrant workers to be more fully informed of their rights; and (ix) the expansion of the programme of the information on apartheid in labour matters and other questions of direct concern to the workers of southern Africa;

(b) to use existing ILO procedures, including those of the Committee on Discrimination of the Governing Body, to attain the objectives assigned to the ILO under its Programme for the Elimination of Apartheid; and

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