THE TEN PRINCIPLESTHE TEN PRINCIPLES

1ºBA: Esther Fuentes Blas, Paula Moreno Morales & Irene Mª Ruiz Fernández

4: The elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour.

FORCED LABOUR "...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."

12.3 million people in FORCED LABOUR. ILO estimates that: Profits up to $32 billion.

UN: 4 million people/year are forced to work Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America.

What determines forced labour: Not choosing by yourself your own actions. No control of personal belongings & incomes. No official document with the conditions and

guarantees.

CHILD LABOURCHILD LABOUR 215 million children Reasons to abolish child labour :

They should be in school. Unsuitable work for those ages.

Forms of child labour: Forms of slavery Traffic, debt bondage, compulsory

labour, and armed conflict. Prostitution Pornographic purposes Illicit activities Production and trafficking of drugs Child soldiers Work which harms the health, safety or morals

This abolition is an urgent challenges.

FORMS OF FORCED LABOURFORMS OF FORCED LABOUR

Slavery Farm and rural debt bondage Bonded labor People trafficking Abuse of domestic workers Prison labor Compulsory work Military labor

SOLUTIONSSOLUTIONS

ILO Stop forced labour through the Special Action Programme. Since 1950s: Providing

technical cooperation to developing countries.

US$130 million spent annually on technical cooperation projects.

Network working in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East.