Challenges and lessons in combating contemporary forms of slavery 2013, para. 78
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In recent years, contemporary slavery has drawn increasing attention from Governments and stakeholders around the world, although this attention remains insufficient to the task of its eradication. A number of international instruments have defined and prohibited, inter alia, debt bondage, serfdom, servile marriage, child slavery, forced labour and traditional forms of slavery.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences