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Debt bondage as a key form of contemporary slavery 2016, para. B.

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[Recommendations to Member States:] Origin and destination countries should work together to ensure the effective monitoring of the situation of migrant workers and that adequate protection systems are in place.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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  • Persons on the move
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2016
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Debt bondage as a key form of contemporary slavery 2016, para. B.

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[Recommendations to Member States:] As outlined above, invest in the development of economic alternatives to reduce the push factors that drive individuals into migration that can lead to exploitative labour.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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Debt bondage as a key form of contemporary slavery 2016, para. B.

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[Recommendations to Member States:] Remove any forms of discrimination that negatively impact on the rights of certain groups, including girls, indigenous peoples and migrant children, to an education.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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Special Procedures' report
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  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
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  • Children
  • Ethnic minorities
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Manifestations and causes of domestic servitude 2010, para. 71

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Prejudices also reveal themselves in pay differences. Studies in Middle Eastern countries found, for instance, that Filipina migrant domestic workers are usually paid more than their more dark-skinned colleagues from South Asia or Africa.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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Special Procedures' report
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2010
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Manifestations and causes of domestic servitude 2010, para. 21

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A precarious visa and immigration status, unfamiliarity with the local context and language and discrimination make migrant domestic workers particularly vulnerable to exploitation, abuse and subjugation to slavery-like practices.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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Special Procedures' report
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Debt bondage as a key form of contemporary slavery 2016, para. 52

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In regard to migrant workers who are in debt bondage as a result of abusive recruitment practices, a comprehensive programme of initiatives needs to be implemented by States. This should include awareness-raising, training on safe migration, and capacity-building, for prospective migrants, officials from local and central government, and civil society organizations; the effective regulation of recruitment agencies and intermediaries; and regional and international cooperation on the issue.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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Special Procedures' report
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
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2016
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Debt bondage as a key form of contemporary slavery 2016, para. 10

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ILO estimated in 2012 that 20.9 million people worldwide were victims of forced labour. These figures refer to all forms of forced labour, however given the close interrelationship with debt bondage, the figures offer some insight into debt bondage prevalence trends globally. The Asia-Pacific region accounts for the highest absolute number of victims of forced labour: 11.7 million, or 56 per cent of the global total. The second-highest number is in Africa, with 3.7 million (18 per cent), followed by Latin America and the Caribbean, with 1.8 million (9 per cent). Developed economies and the European Union account for 1.5 million victims of forced labour (7 per cent), while the non-EU countries of Central, South-East and Eastern Europe and the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States have 1.6 million (7 per cent). In the Middle East, there are an estimated 600,000 victims (3 per cent). ILO has noted that the average period of time that victims spend in forced labour is approximately 18 months, with significant variation according to the forms of forced labour and across regions. The ILO data also illustrates that forced labour affects international migrants, internally displaced persons and people in their home countries. ILO estimates that there are 9.1 million victims (44 per cent) who have moved either internally or internationally, and 11.8 million (56 per cent) who are subjected to forced labour in their place of origin or residence.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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Special Procedures' report
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2016
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Debt bondage as a key form of contemporary slavery 2016, para. B.

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[Recommendations to Member States:] Develop a comprehensive system of regulation of recruitment practices in relation to migrant workers that includes the banning of recruitment fees and the issuing of licences to recruiters and other related intermediaries.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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Debt bondage as a key form of contemporary slavery 2016, para. 53

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The practice of debt bondage is prevalent worldwide in numerous sectors of the economy and particularly affects people belonging to minority groups, including women, children, indigenous people, people of "low" caste and migrant workers. Poverty, the lack of economic alternatives, illiteracy and the discrimination that people from minority groups suffer leave them with no other option than to take a loan or advance from employers or recruiters to meet basic needs, in exchange for their work or the work of their families. People in debt bondage end up working for no wages or wages below the minimum in order to repay the debts contracted or advances received, even though the value of the work they carry out exceeds the amount of their debts. Furthermore, bonded labourers are often subjected to different forms of abuse, including long working hours, physical and psychological abuse, and violence. Debt bondage is prevalent in many countries, due to a failure by many Governments to implement effective legislation on debt bondage, including deficiencies in the areas of identification, release, rehabilitation, and the prosecution of offenders, and due to a lack of data on the prevalence of debt bondage, weak rule of law, social exclusion and discrimination.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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Special Procedures' report
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  • Equality & Inclusion
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  • Children
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
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2016
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Challenges and lessons in combating contemporary forms of slavery 2013, para. 54

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One of the most important steps in ensuring the successful implementation of laws on contemporary forms of slavery is the provision of training to authorities, including law enforcement officers, labour inspectors, judges and immigration officials. Training should cover relevant law, victim protection mechanisms and techniques for identifying victims.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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Special Procedures' report
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  • Economic Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Violence
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  • Persons on the move
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2013
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Aug 19, 2019
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Challenges and lessons in combating contemporary forms of slavery 2013, para. 23

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ILO has reported that 69 per cent of child labour occurs in the agricultural sector, where there is a high incidence of the worst forms of child labour. Because agricultural work is generally low-paid, carried out by temporary and migrant workers and occurs in isolated rural areas subject to little government oversight, both child and adult agricultural workers are vulnerable to contemporary forms of slavery.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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Special Procedures' report
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  • Violence
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  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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2013
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Aug 19, 2019
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Child slavery in the artisanal mining and quarrying sector 2011, para. 48

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HIV/AIDS has had a huge impact on all of society, not least those subject to child slavery in mining and quarrying. In central and southern Africa the scourge of AIDS has left many orphans. This situation - coupled with the fact that there is already a lot of pressure on the disintegrating traditional extended family support system - means that many orphans end up working unaccompanied in this sector.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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Special Procedures' report
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  • Economic Rights
  • Health
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  • Children
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2011
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Aug 19, 2019
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Manifestations and causes of domestic servitude 2010, para. 97

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[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:] Working with existing domestic workers associations and cooperatives, labour unions should make greater efforts to include domestic workers, including migrant domestic workers.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
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2010
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Aug 19, 2019
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Manifestations and causes of domestic servitude 2010, para. 96

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[Migrant domestic workers are vulnerable to subjugation to servitude, since they often have a precarious migration status and face prejudices. The Special Rapporteur recommends that States:] Ensure Immigration and labour authorities cooperate to register all migrant workers and inform them about their rights in a language they can understand.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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Manifestations and causes of domestic servitude 2010, para. 96

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[Migrant domestic workers are vulnerable to subjugation to servitude, since they often have a precarious migration status and face prejudices. The Special Rapporteur recommends that States:] Consider creating a special immigration status providing a right to stay for migrant domestic workers, who substantiate allegations of serious abuse or exploitation by employers.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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2010
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Manifestations and causes of domestic servitude 2010, para. 96

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[Migrant domestic workers are vulnerable to subjugation to servitude, since they often have a precarious migration status and face prejudices. The Special Rapporteur recommends that States:] Recognize migrant domestic workers' right to freely choose where they reside and abolish any live-in requirements stipulated by law or regulations.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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2010
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Manifestations and causes of domestic servitude 2010, para. 96

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[Migrant domestic workers are vulnerable to subjugation to servitude, since they often have a precarious migration status and face prejudices. The Special Rapporteur recommends that States:] Abolish immigration regimes that tie a visa to the sponsorship of a single employer, including for domestic workers employed by diplomats.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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2010
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Manifestations and causes of domestic servitude 2010, para. 58

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The Special Rapporteur is concerned that sending countries have a tendency to hush up credible reports of exploitation committed by their diplomats, rather than to launch criminal investigations. Meanwhile, receiving countries often lack the courage to demand a lifting of diplomatic immunity or declare perpetrating diplomats to be personae non grata, while at the same time providing independent residence rights to the victims.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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2010
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Priorities of the new mandate holder 2014, para. 20

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In particular, the Special Rapporteur views the elimination of domestic servitude as a key priority of the mandate, as that form of slavery continues to exist across both developed and developing countries. Women, low-skilled migrant workers, indigenous people, internally displaced persons and other marginalized groups and groups that are discriminated against are the most vulnerable to exploitation in domestic servitude.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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Special Procedures' report
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  • Economic Rights
  • Movement
  • Violence
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  • Ethnic minorities
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
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2014
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Aug 19, 2019
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Servile marriage 2012, para. 47

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Honour-related killings are practised by some communities in their countries of origin or in the countries to which they have immigrated. Honour-related killings occur in Asia, the Middle East and Europe, where first-generation immigrants have passed the practice on to their children and grandchildren. Among some Asian communities, to guard the honour of a clan, marriages take place within the biradari system, a social caste system that divides people into separate communities and combines caste and honour with notions of total loyalty to the clan.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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Special Procedures' report
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  • Persons on the move
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2012
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Manifestations and causes of domestic servitude 2010, para. 94

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[Children are particularly vulnerable to domestic servitude, especially if they live with their employers and/or migrate on their own to find domestic work:] States should prohibit live-in domestic work for migrant or local children younger than 18 years, since it is typically inherently hazardous. Other domestic work of children who are younger than 15 or still completing their mandatory education should be prohibited to the extent that it interferes with their schooling.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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Special Procedures' report
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2010
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Debt bondage as a key form of contemporary slavery 2016, para. 44c

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[Despite the efforts of various countries to eradicate and prevent debt bondage, there are still challenges in implementing adequate measures in this regard, including:] The lack of regulatory frameworks and oversight in respect of recruitment agencies or brokers that impose excessive recruitment fees or provide advances to migrant workers leaving them indebted;
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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Special Procedures' report
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
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2016
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Debt bondage as a key form of contemporary slavery 2016, para. 30

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Exploitation of migrant workers via debt bondage has also reportedly been seen in South-East Asia. In Thailand, migrant workers, primarily from neighbouring countries including Cambodia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic and Myanmar, are reported to have been subjected to deceptive recruitment practices that can lead to cases of debt bondage. Workers are often lured to work on fishing boats free of charge and once they start working are charged for the costs of recruitment and the travel expenses, with high interest rates.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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2016
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Debt bondage as a key form of contemporary slavery 2016, para. 9

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Debt bondage occurs worldwide and is not confined to any one country or region and it occurs across various sectors of the economy. A global trend can be seen whereby vulnerable people, including those belonging to minority groups, indigenous people, women, children, people determined as being of low caste, and migrant workers, are disproportionately impacted by debt bondage. As will be discussed below, many victims of debt bondage face multiple and intersecting sources of discrimination which make them vulnerable to exploitation and abuse.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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Special Procedures' report
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  • Violence
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  • Children
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
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2016
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Aug 19, 2019
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Eradicating contemporary forms of slavery from supply chains 2015, para. 63

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In other cases, some legal jurisdictions are part of the problem, exacerbating the vulnerability of workers to contemporary forms of slavery. This is the case in countries where laws tie migrant workers to specific employers, preventing them from leaving without the employer's authorization. In some countries, for example, certain categories of workers are not guaranteed their right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association and thus not allowed to form or join trade unions or hold office within them, which adds to their vulnerability.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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Special Procedures' report
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
  • Violence
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Eradicating contemporary forms of slavery from supply chains 2015, para. 45

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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises were adopted in 1976 and updated five times, most recently in May 2011 to include a new chapter on human rights and business consistent with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. In the Guidelines, explicit reference is made to the responsibilities of multinational enterprises in relation to their supply chains. A system of national contact points - a non-judicial mechanism that the adhering countries are obliged to set up - are established thereunder. National contact points contribute to the resolution of issues that arise from alleged non-observance of the Guidelines (so called specific instances mechanism). In dealing with specific instances, which are not legal cases, national contact points must make an initial assessment to determine if the issues raised merit further examination, assist in resolving the instances through offering good offices, and make the results of the procedure publicly available. Despite the value of this grievance mechanism, which is accessible to any interested party, the national contact point system has been criticized by civil society on multiple counts and specific recommendations have been provided to strengthen it. Business compliance with other guidelines, for example the Dhaka Principles for Migration with Dignity that relate to reducing exploitation from the moment of the recruitment process is critical to reducing the incidence of forced labour and other contemporary forms of slavery at all levels of supply chains.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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2015
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Aug 19, 2019
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Challenges and lessons in combating contemporary forms of slavery 2013, para. 42

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Yet, even when inspectors are trained to identify victims of slavery, many victims may be afraid to talk because of threats made against them. This is especially true with migrant workers, many of whom are afraid that authorities may harass, detain or deport them. In the United States of America, for example, some migrant workers have reported that they are afraid to talk to neighbours or unable to do so owing to language barriers. In some cases, their employers have threatened to report them to immigration authorities if they try to leave.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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Special Procedures' report
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  • Economic Rights
  • Movement
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  • Persons on the move
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2013
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Aug 19, 2019
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Manifestations and causes of domestic servitude 2010, para. 97

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[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:] National authorities, cooperating with domestic workers associations, unions and national human rights institutions, should launch campaigns to inform prospective and current domestic workers what rights they have and how they can enforce them. Information has to be provided in places and languages accessible to all domestic workers, including migrants.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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Special Procedures' report
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  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
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2010
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Aug 19, 2019
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Manifestations and causes of domestic servitude 2010, para. 96

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[Migrant domestic workers are vulnerable to subjugation to servitude, since they often have a precarious migration status and face prejudices. The Special Rapporteur recommends that States:] Foster their multilateral and bilateral cooperation to accredit and regulate recruitment and placement agencies. Bilateral agreements on migrant domestic work should be binding, based on international standards; guarantee non-discrimination compared to local workers and provide for effective mechanisms to ensure compliance.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • Persons on the move
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2010
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Eradicating contemporary forms of slavery from supply chains 2015, para. 19

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Globalization has created unprecedented opportunities for corporations to extend their operations across national borders, including to developing countries, in order to source the cheapest products and maximize profit. The demand for cheap labour meets a ready supply of workers from vulnerable groups: indigenous people, minorities, those considered to be from the "lowest castes" and migrants, especially those in an irregular situation. Women workers are particularly vulnerable to exploitation in certain sectors given the nexus of gender discrimination and inequality.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
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Special Procedures' report
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  • Ethnic minorities
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
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2015
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