Reference, pending review
The legal definition, the ILO indicators of forced labour, the law of each jurisdiction and aggregated detection and prosecution figures.
Indicators
11 records
Indicators
Abuse of vulnerability
Taking advantage of a worker's lack of knowledge of the language or law, few livelihood options, or dependence on the employer.
Indicators
Abusive working and living conditions
Degrading, hazardous or unlawful conditions a worker would not freely accept.
Indicators
Debt bondage
Work to repay a debt or advance whose terms make it impossible to repay.
Indicators
Deception
False promises about the type and terms of work, wages, conditions or legal status.
Indicators
Excessive overtime
Hours beyond legal limits, under threat of penalty.
Indicators
Intimidation and threats
Threats of denunciation to the authorities, of violence, or against family.
Indicators
Isolation
Workers cut off from the outside world, in remote places or without means of communication.
Indicators
Physical and sexual violence
Violence, or the threat of it, used to coerce work.
Indicators
Restriction of movement
Workers locked in or confined to the workplace or accommodation, or watched to stop them leaving.
Indicators
Retention of identity documents
An employer keeping passports or identity papers so the worker cannot leave.
Indicators
Withholding of wages
Wages systematically and deliberately withheld to compel the worker to stay.
Treaties
7 records
Treaties
Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings
Victim protection and monitoring by GRETA.
Treaties
Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29)
Defines forced labour as work exacted under the menace of a penalty and not offered voluntarily.
Treaties
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
Criminalisation of the sale and sexual exploitation of children.
Treaties
Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930
Prevention, protection and remedies for victims of forced labour.
Treaties
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children
The international definition of trafficking in persons (art. 3): act, means and purpose of exploitation.
Treaties
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
The Palermo Convention on organised crime, laundering and cooperation.
Treaties
Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182)
Immediate action against the worst forms of child labour.
Rights
2 recordsStatistics
Recent events
- Palermo Protocol entered into force UN Treaty Collection ↗
- UNTOC entered into force UN Treaty Collection ↗
- CRC-OPSC entered into force UN Treaty Collection ↗
Areas of law
What we do not have yet
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Sources Palermo Protocol (2000)ILO Indicators of Forced Labour (2012)