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Title | Date added | Template | Original document | Paragraph text | Body | Document type | Thematics | Topic(s) | Person(s) affected | Year |
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Debt bondage as a key form of contemporary slavery 2016, para. B. | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [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. | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Special Procedures' report |
| 2016 | |||
Servile marriage 2012, para. 104 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States should launch awareness-raising campaigns about servile marriage and the remedies available to potential and actual victims, reproductive health and health care, and the importance of birth and marriage registration. These should be targeted at the general public and health-care workers. Programmes should be developed with local communities and their leaders, including elders and religious leaders, to stop servile marriage within the community. | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Special Procedures' report |
| 2012 | |||
Manifestations and causes of domestic servitude 2010, para. 97 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Domestic workers have made impressive gains in organizing themselves across the globe. More efforts are needed, however, to empower individual workers. The Special Rapporteur recommends:] States should abolish all legal or factual obstacles preventing domestic workers from exercising their human right to freely associate, including in trade unions. | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Special Procedures' report |
| 2010 | |||
Manifestations and causes of domestic servitude 2010, para. 95 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [In the case of live-in domestic workers, the identity of work place and home is deeply problematic as it makes this group dangerously isolated. In order to limit and regulate live-in domestic work, States should:] In addition, States should establish blacklists prohibiting households, in which one member has been found to have abused or exploited a live-in domestic worker, from employing other workers. | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Special Procedures' report |
| 2010 | |||
Manifestations and causes of domestic servitude 2010, para. 95 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [In the case of live-in domestic workers, the identity of work place and home is deeply problematic as it makes this group dangerously isolated. In order to limit and regulate live-in domestic work, States should:] Require employers to undergo a mandatory awareness raising training before employing live-in workers. Employers should be obliged to register live-in workers and ensure that they present themselves to periodic private interviews with labour inspectors. | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Special Procedures' report | 2010 | ||||
Servile marriage 2012, para. 98 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Violations relating to servile marriage such as domestic servitude and sexual slavery should be criminalized. Governments should also denounce and strengthen laws regarding crimes committed in the name of honour. Victims or survivors of honour crimes should not be placed in protective custody but instead provided with long-term safe housing. Psychosocial services should be provided for victims, such as community-based support mechanisms and services, including mobilizing the community and raising its awareness of the consequences of the crimes, to help to prevent future crimes and to assist with the reintegration of victims. | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Special Procedures' report |
| 2012 | |||
Servile marriage 2012, para. 96 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Legislation should allow for marriages concluded under force to be made void, annulled or dissolved without undue burden placed on the victims of such marriages. | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Special Procedures' report |
| 2012 |
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