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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 | |||
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 | |||
Unpaid care work and women's human rights 2013, para. 100 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | An important part of the State's investment in care services is the recruitment of adequate numbers of paid care professionals such as nurses, and providing them with decent pay and working conditions. Overall, States should shift from a strategy of reliance on market and voluntary provision of care that is informal and exploitative to one that allows professional, decently paid and compassionate forms of care. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
| 2013 | |||
Discrimination against Roma 2000, para. 27 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recommends that the States parties to the Convention, taking into account their specific situations, adopt for the benefit of members of the Roma communities, inter alia, all or part of the following measures, as appropriate.] To adopt or make more effective legislation prohibiting discrimination in employment and all discriminatory practices in the labour market affecting members of Roma communities, and to protect them against such practices. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
| 2000 | |||
Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 51 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The Working Group regrets that, despite having gained independence, formerly colonized peoples are still living with the legacies of slavery and colonialism. The forced separation of Africans from their homeland has resulted in cultural and social alienation from their roots and identities. The cultural rupture caused by the transatlantic trade in Africans as well as by European colonization still has an impact on the discrimination faced by people of African descent in their search for justice. | Working Group of experts on people of African descent | Special Procedures' report |
| 2014 |
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