Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 15
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- Under the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, ILO member States have an obligation to respect, promote and realize the principles concerning the fundamental rights which are the subject of the relevant conventions, including the elimination of forced labour, regardless of whether they have ratified those conventions. In this regard, under the ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) States parties are to take effective measures to prohibit the worst forms of child labour, including child trafficking. Under the ILO Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29) and Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105), States parties have the obligation to take measures to abolish forced or compulsory labour. ILO Convention No. 29 was strengthened with the approval of the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930. The Protocol outlines measures for preventing forced labour and emphasizes the need for victim protection and access to appropriate and effective remedies, such as compensation. The measures States are required to take under the Protocol include supporting due diligence by both the public and private sectors to prevent and respond to risks of forced or compulsory labour (art. 2 (e)). This obligation is further underscored in the ILO Forced Labour (Supplementary Measures) Recommendation, 2014 (No. 203), in which States are called on to provide guidance and support to employers and businesses to take effective measures to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for how they address the risks of forced or compulsory labour in their operations or in products, services or operations to which they may be directly linked (sect. 4 (j)).
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2017
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 15
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