(No. 97), the Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975 (No. 143), the
Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189), the Private Employment Agencies Convention,
1997 (No. 181), the Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81), the Labour Inspection
(Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129), as well as the ILO Declaration on Fundamental
Principles and Rights at Work (1998), and the ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair
Globalization (2008), and
Noting other relevant international instruments, in particular the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights (1948), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966), the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966), the Slavery
Convention (1926), the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave
Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery (1956), the United Nations Convention
against Transnational Organized Crime (2000), the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish
Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (2000), the Protocol against the
Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air (2000), the International Convention on the
Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (1990), the
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
(1984), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
(1979), and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006), and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals to address gaps in implementation of
the Convention, and reaffirmed that measures of prevention, protection, and remedies, such
as compensation and rehabilitation, are necessary to achieve the effective and sustained
suppression of forced or compulsory labour, pursuant to the fourth item on the agenda of the
session, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of a Protocol to the Convention;
adopts this eleventh day of June two thousand and fourteen the following Protocol, which may
be cited as the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930.
Article 1
1. In giving effect to its obligations under the Convention to suppress forced or compulsory
labour, each Member shall take effective measures to prevent and eliminate its use, to
provide to victims protection and access to appropriate and effective remedies, such
as compensation, and to sanction the perpetrators of forced or compulsory labour.
2. Each Member shall develop a national policy and plan of action for the effective and
sustained suppression of forced or compulsory labour in consultation with employers’
and workers’ organizations, which shall involve systematic action by the competent
authorities and, as appropriate, in coordination with employers’ and workers’
organizations, as well as with other groups concerned.
3. The definition of forced or compulsory labour contained in the Convention is reaffirmed,
and therefore the measures referred to in this Protocol shall include specific action
against trafficking in persons for the purposes of forced or compulsory labour.
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