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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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Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1950, para. 3c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 3. For the purpose of this article the term "forced or compulsory labour" shall not include:
c. any service exacted in case of an emergency or calamity threatening the life or well-being of the community; | Council of Europe | Regional treaty |
| 1950 | |||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 3d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 3. For the purposes of this article, the following do not constitute forced or compulsory labor:
d. work or service that forms part of normal civic obligations. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
| 1969 | |||
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1950, para. 3b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 3. For the purpose of this article the term "forced or compulsory labour" shall not include:
b. any service of a military character or, in case of conscientious objectors in countries where they are recognised, service exacted instead of compulsory military service; | Council of Europe | Regional treaty |
| 1950 | |||
Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention 2014, para. Preamble 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Noting that the effective and sustained suppression of forced or compulsory labour contributes to ensuring fair competition among employers as well as protection for workers, and | International Labour Organization | International treaty |
| 2014 | |||
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 10. (2) (c) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Meanwhile, where forced or compulsory labour is exacted as a tax, and where recourse is had to forced or compulsory labour for the execution of public works by chiefs who exercise administrative functions, the authority concerned shall first satisfy itself] that the work or service will not lay too heavy a burden upon the present population, having regard to the labour available and its capacity to undertake the work; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
| 2018 | |||
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 2. (1) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | For the purposes of this Convention the term forced or compulsory labour shall mean all work or service which is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself voluntarily. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
| 2018 | |||
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 12. (2) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Every person from whom forced or compulsory labour is exacted shall be furnished with a certificate indicating the periods of such labour which he has completed. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
| 2018 | |||
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 13. (1) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The normal working hours of any person from whom forced or compulsory labour is exacted shall be the same as those prevailing in the case of voluntary labour, and the hours worked in excess of the normal working hours shall be remunerated at the rates prevailing in the case of overtime for voluntary labour. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
| 2018 | |||
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 13. (2) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | A weekly day of rest shall be granted to all persons from whom forced or compulsory labour of any kind is exacted and this day shall coincide as far as possible with the day fixed by tradition or custom in the territories or regions concerned. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
| 2018 | |||
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 14. (1) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | With the exception of the forced or compulsory labour provided for in Article 10 of this Convention, forced or compulsory labour of all kinds shall be remunerated in cash at rates not less than those prevailing for similar kinds of work either in the district in which the labour is employed or in the district from which the labour is recruited, whichever may be the higher. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
| 2018 | |||
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 11. (1) (a) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Only adult able-bodied males who are of an apparent age of not less than 18 and not more than 45 years may be called upon for forced or compulsory labour. Except in respect of the kinds of labour provided for in Article 10 of this Convention, the following limitations and conditions shall apply:] (a) whenever possible prior determination by a medical officer appointed by the administration that the persons concerned are not suffering from any infectious or contagious disease and that they are physically fit for the work required and for the conditions under which it is to be carried out; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
| 2018 | |||
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 9 (c) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Except as otherwise provided for in Article 10 of this Convention, any authority competent to exact forced or compulsory labour shall, before deciding to have recourse to such labour, satisfy itself] that it has been impossible to obtain voluntary labour for carrying out the work or rendering the service by the offer of rates of wages and conditions of labour not less favourable than those prevailing in the area concerned for similar work or service; and | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
| 2018 | |||
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 9 (d) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Except as otherwise provided for in Article 10 of this Convention, any authority competent to exact forced or compulsory labour shall, before deciding to have recourse to such labour, satisfy itself] that the work or service will not lay too heavy a burden upon the present population, having regard to the labour available and its capacity to undertake the work. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
| 2018 | |||
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 19. (2) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. Nothing in this Article shall be construed as abrogating the obligation on members of a community, where production is organised on a communal basis by virtue of law or custom and where the produce or any profit accruing from the sale thereof remain the property of the community, to perform the work demanded by the community by virtue of law or custom. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
| 2018 | |||
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 5. (1) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | No concession granted to private individuals, companies or associations shall involve any form of forced or compulsory labour for the production or the collection of products which such private individuals, companies or associations utilise or in which they trade. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
| 2018 | |||
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 9 (a) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Except as otherwise provided for in Article 10 of this Convention, any authority competent to exact forced or compulsory labour shall, before deciding to have recourse to such labour, satisfy itself] that the work to be done or the service to be rendered is of important direct interest for the community called upon to do work or render the service; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
| 2018 | |||
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 16. (4) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In cases where such workers are required to perform regular work to which they are not accustomed, measures shall be taken to ensure their habituation to it, especially as regards progressive training, the hours of work and the provision of rest intervals, and any increase or amelioration of diet which may be necessary. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
| 2018 | |||
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms. | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
| 1948 | |||
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 14. (5) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Nothing in this Article shall prevent ordinary rations being given as a part of wages, such rations to be at least equivalent in value to the money payment they are taken to represent, but deductions from wages shall not be made either for the payment of taxes or for special food, clothing or accommodation supplied to a worker for the purpose of maintaining him in a fit condition to carry on his work under the special conditions of any employment, or for the supply of tools. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
| 2018 | |||
Promotion and protection of the human rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas 2017, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing also that peasants and other people working in rural areas are often disproportionally affected by the adverse impact of business activities, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
| 2017 | |||
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 10. (2) (e) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Meanwhile, where forced or compulsory labour is exacted as a tax, and where recourse is had to forced or compulsory labour for the execution of public works by chiefs who exercise administrative functions, the authority concerned shall first satisfy itself] that the execution of the work or the rendering of the service will be directed in accordance with the exigencies of religion, social life and agriculture. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
| 2018 | |||
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 10. (2) (b) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Meanwhile, where forced or compulsory labour is exacted as a tax, and where recourse is had to forced or compulsory labour for the execution of public works by chiefs who exercise administrative functions, the authority concerned shall first satisfy itself] that the work or the service is of present or imminent necessity; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
| 2018 | |||
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 12. (1) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The maximum period for which any person may be taken for forced or compulsory labour of all kinds in any one period of twelve months shall not exceed sixty days, including the time spent in going to and from the place of work. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
| 2018 | |||
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 14. (4) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | For the purpose of payment of wages the days spent in travelling to and from the place of work shall be counted as working days. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
| 2018 | |||
Minorities and discrimination based on caste and analogous systems of inherited status 2016, para. 76 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In Nepal, in the agricultural sector, Haliyas ("ones who plough") are labourers effectively caught in a debt bondage system. They plough the land, a task considered dirty. They are often forced to take out loans from landowners to cover personal expenses and are charged exorbitant rates of interest, making their debts extremely difficult to pay back and effectively trapping them in a never-ending cycle of submission. According to civil society reports, despite criminalization by the Government in 2010, the practice still persists and there is currently no legislation in place for the rehabilitation of Haliyas. | Special Rapporteur on minority issues | Special Procedures' report |
| 2016 | |||
Challenges and lessons in combating contemporary forms of slavery 2013, para. 16 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In Nepal, a debt bondage system, the labourers of which are known as Haliyas, can be found in the agricultural sector. Haliya means "one who ploughs". Ploughing land is considered to be dirty and unskilled work that only lower-class citizens should perform, making it the work of "untouchables" or Dalits. Haliyas are either paid very little for their work or paid only in small amounts of food. Debt quickly accrues as workers take out loans for personal expenses, while landowners take advantage of them by charging exorbitant interest rates. According to a Centre for Human Rights and Global Justice report, "such discrimination is intentionally designed to keep alive a system of debt bondage". | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Special Procedures' report |
| 2013 | |||
Integration of a human rights-based approach in measures to discourage the demand that fosters all forms of exploitation of persons, especially women and children, and which leads to human trafficking 2013, para. 67 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Even businesses which invest significant amounts in checking their supply chains suffer from the fact that there is no internationally recognized standard for the process of checking whether minimum labour standards and human rights standards are respected in the workplace. It is challenging for other businesses and individual consumers to assess whether the cheap cost of a product was due to good business management or due to abuse in the production process. It is the responsibility of the State (in addition to being the responsibility of employers, business owners and investors) to ensure that keeping production costs and wage bills to a minimum is not achieved by illegal or abusive means. | Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children | Special Procedures' report |
| 2013 | |||
Preventing and addressing violence and atrocities against minorities 2014, para. 69 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The creation of community or neighbourhood watch and early warning mechanisms that enable at-risk communities to identify threats and quickly contact law enforcement authorities is another measure that has been put in place, including in Nigeria where violence and intercommunal tensions have been present. Having local "eyes and ears" to report potential incidents offers valuable, community-based, early warning potential, although it remains reliant on a rapid response by law enforcement bodies to alerts if it is to be effective. | Special Rapporteur on minority issues | Special Procedures' report |
| 2014 | |||
Manifestations and causes of domestic servitude 2010, para. 75 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Many States do not afford domestic workers the equal protection of labour law, which invites exploitation, leading, in extreme cases, to domestic servitude. In a number of States, domestic work is excluded from the scope of application of relevant labour laws. At best, parallel regimes are set up that provide lesser standards of protection. It is very common to exclude domestic workers from essential social benefits such as health care, compensation in case of invalidity, pensions or maternity leave and labour rights such as paid vacations, rest days or maximum work hours. | Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences | Special Procedures' report |
| 2010 | |||
Mapping and framing security of tenure 2013, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The United Nations Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) provides data on "slums", the word it has adopted to define such settlements. One UN-Habitat study estimated that 924 million people were living in slums in 2001; an estimate for 2010 placed the number at about 828 million. However, by 2010 tenure security was not taken into account in the UN-Habitat measurements of slums, hence the latter figure offers only a very small insight into the current extent of tenure insecurity in urban areas. Similarly, the revised indicator for the Millennium Development Goal target of improving the lives of 100 million slum dwellers (7 (d)) does not include security of tenure. While this particular target was reached, the question remains as to whether this result reflects the real situation of slums and informal settlements worldwide. Developing effective ways to measure tenure (in)security is an urgent imperative, including for the Millennium Development Goals and the United Nations development agenda beyond 2015. | Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living | Special Procedures' report |
| 2013 |