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Title | Date added | Template | Body | Legal status | Document type | Year | Document code | Original document | Paragraph text | Thematics | Topic(s) | Person(s) affected | Year |
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The use of technology in facilitating and preventing contemporary forms of slavery | Dec 12, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2023 | A/78/161 | ||||||
Homelessness as a cause and consequence of contemporary
forms of slavery | Dec 12, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2023 | A/HRC/54/30 | ||||||
Contemporary forms of slavery in the informal economy | Dec 12, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2022 | A/77/163 | ||||||
Contemporary forms of slavery affecting persons belonging
to ethnic, religious and linguistic minority communities | Dec 12, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2022 | A/HRC/51/26 | ||||||
Nexus between displacement and contemporary forms of
slavery | Dec 12, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2021 | A/HRC/48/52 | ||||||
Role of organized criminal groups with regard to
contemporary forms of slavery | Dec 12, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2021 | A/76/170 | ||||||
Contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes
and consequences | Dec 12, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2020 | A/75/166 | ||||||
Impact of the coronavirus disease pandemic on contemporary forms of slavery and slavery-like practices | Dec 12, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2020 | A/HRC/45/8 | ||||||
Thematic report on current and emerging forms of slavery | Dec 12, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2019 | A/HRC/42/44 | ||||||
Child slavery | Dec 12, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2019 | A/74/179 | ||||||
Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Dec 12, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2018 | A/73/139 | ||||||
Impact of slavery and servitude on marginalized migrant women workers in the global domestic economy | Dec 12, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2018 | A/HRC/39/52 | ||||||
Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of
slavery, including its causes and consequences | Dec 12, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2017 | A/72/139 | ||||||
Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of
slavery, including its causes and consequences | Dec 12, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2017 | A/HRC/36/43 | ||||||
Debt bondage as a key form of contemporary slavery 2016, para. B. | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | [Recommendations to Member States:] Put in place comprehensive programmes that allow identified bonded labourers to be able to access the support that they need to fulfil their right to rehabilitation. |
| 2016 | |||||
Child slavery in the artisanal mining and quarrying sector 2011, para. 34 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | As in many other sectors where children work, employers find it easier to hire children as they are easily exploited and cheaper to employ. Children are also recruited to work in mines because of their small size and the fact that they are thought to be nimble. |
| 2011 | |||||
Challenges and lessons in combating contemporary forms of slavery 2013, para. 56 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Some countries have also taken action to punish perpetrators of contemporary forms of slavery and compensate their victims. In Argentina, in one notable court case, a judge ordered the owners of a garment factory that was employing Bolivian workers under conditions of forced labour to turn the factory over to the workers. In the Plurinational State of Bolivia, the Government has confiscated land on which individuals were subject to forced labour and turned it over to those who were forced to work on it. In 2013, the state of São Paulo in Brazil passed a law that makes companies liable for contemporary forms of slavery in their production chains (including in the operations of their subcontractors). The law allows the state government to cancel complicit companies' tax registration for 10 years, thereby making it impossible for them to continue operating legally. In May 2013, the Governor of São Paulo signed a decree enacting the above-mentioned Law 14.946, and the Senate of Brazil was considering passing the Proposed Constitutional Amendment (PEC) 57A/1999, which allows for the expropriation of the property of companies that have subjected workers to contemporary forms of slavery. |
| 2013 | |||||
Manifestations and causes of domestic servitude 2010, para. 11 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | In the shadow of global domestic work industry, large numbers of people - in the majority, women and girls - find their dignity denied. They suffer invisibly in domestic servitude, contrary to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (art. 4) and human rights treaty law. |
| 2010 | |||||
Debt bondage as a key form of contemporary slavery 2016, para. B. | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | [Recommendations to Member States:] Invest in programmes that facilitate people's access to decent work opportunities, in order to ensure that they have economic alternatives to debt bondage. |
| 2016 | |||||
Servile marriage 2012, para. 55 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | As mentioned above, the issue of servile marriage in conflict was recently highlighted by the adoption of a landmark judgement by the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Prosecutor v. Brima et al, in which it recognized forced marriage as a crime against humanity under international criminal law for the first time. |
| 2012 | |||||
Eradicating contemporary forms of slavery from supply chains 2015, para. 17 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | The Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), outlines measures for prevention and elimination of forced labour and emphasizes the need for victim protection and access to appropriate and effective remedies, such as compensation. One of the preventive measures it sets out is "supporting due diligence by both the public and private sectors to prevent and respond to risks of forced or compulsory labour" (art. 2 (e)). The non-binding ILO Recommendation 203, providing practical guidance on the Protocol, while not referring specifically to supply chains, contains a provision on preventive measures, 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 (section 4 (j)). The Protocol is largely aligned with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations "Protect, Respect and Remedy" Framework (see below), although it is limited because, inter alia, it focuses only on forced labour and not on all human rights violations. |
| 2015 | |||||
Debt bondage as a key form of contemporary slavery 2016, para. B. | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | [Recommendations to Member States:] Establish and/or update comprehensive national action plans for the eradication of contemporary forms of slavery including debt bondage. The national action plans should outline measures to prevent and eradicate debt bondage, and ensure the protection of persons released from debt bondage. |
| 2016 | |||||
Challenges and lessons in combating contemporary forms of slavery 2013, para. 69 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Unions have also been active in combating contemporary forms of slavery. For example, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) established a best practice manual for trade unions on How to Combat Forced Labour and Trafficking in order to "provide trade unionists and other interested individuals and organisations with a useful tool for increasing awareness of what forced labour is and how it can be effectively challenged". |
| 2013 | |||||
Eradicating contemporary forms of slavery from supply chains 2015, para. 69g | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | [In relation to businesses, the Special Rapporteur recommends the following:] Business should engage in capacity-building to ensure management and staff, as well as the relevant business partner, awareness-raising on the nature and risks of contemporary forms of slavery in supply chains and the strategies for its eradication. |
| 2015 | |||||
Debt bondage as a key form of contemporary slavery 2016, para. 49 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Comprehensive national and/or regional surveys should be undertaken to identify those in bonded labour, and should include disaggregated information on those affected, by age, gender, nationality, caste or ethnic group, and to identify the industries in which debt bondage is prevalent. The existence of detailed data is a necessary step for the development of effective policies, systems and practices. |
| 2016 | |||||
Eradicating contemporary forms of slavery from supply chains 2015, para. 68i | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | [Against this backdrop, the Special Rapporteur wishes to make the following recommendations to States:] Special attention of States should be given to the risk of contemporary forms of slavery in the informal economy, including by identifying at risk sectors and conducting effective labour inspections; |
| 2015 | |||||
Challenges and lessons in combating contemporary forms of slavery 2013, para. 88d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | [Governments should also ensure that other institutions and stakeholders are appropriately resourced and trained to detect, report and prosecute cases, including by providing:] Providing victims with free legal assistance, compensation, social protection, and long-term strategies for community and labour-market reintegration, including vocational training and job placement services. |
| 2013 | |||||
Debt bondage as a key form of contemporary slavery 2016, para. 14 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | In Malawi, situations of debt bondage are reported to be prevalent within the tobacco industry. This sector is a major source of employment in Malawi and generates a significant amount of income for the country. Tobacco is traditionally grown by farmers who use waged workers, temporary workers and also tenants (workers to whom farmers provide land, food and housing and to whom they loan agricultural tools, the costs of which are deducted from future profits). The relationship between tenants and estate or farm owners has been reported to be largely exploitative, leading to a situation of debt bondage. The costs charged to tenants by the estate or farm owners exceed the amount received from tobacco sales due to manipulation of the debts. This leads to tenants, who are reportedly predominantly male, and their families, becoming trapped in situations of debt bondage. In 2013, the Special Rapporteur on the right to food estimated that 300,000 tobacco tenant families were living in extremely precarious situations in Malawi (see A/HRC/25/57/Add.1, para. 47). Since 1995, the Government has made several attempts to enact a specific law on tenancy labour but has yet not successfully developed such legislation. A tenancy labour bill was first drafted in 1995, and the latest version, from 2012, is still under debate. |
| 2016 | |||||
Challenges and lessons in combating contemporary forms of slavery 2013, para. 45 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Another challenge in combating contemporary forms of slavery is the failure of Governments in some countries to adequately protect victims, while in other countries punitive actions by the State can exacerbate worker vulnerability, in some cases forcing workers deeper underground and making it harder to detect victims. |
| 2013 | |||||
Eradicating contemporary forms of slavery from supply chains 2015, para. 70c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | [The Special Rapporteur would like to make the following recommendations to other stakeholders:] Consumers should play a more active role in scrutinizing the origin of products and promoting ethical sourcing and other fair trade initiatives; |
| 2015 |