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THE TEN PRINCIPLES

THE TEN PRINCIPLES. 4 : The elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour. 1ºBA: Esther Fuentes Blas, Paula Moreno Morales & Irene Mª Ruiz Fernández. FORCED LABOUR.

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THE TEN PRINCIPLES

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  1. THE TEN PRINCIPLES 4: The elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour. 1ºBA: Esther Fuentes Blas, Paula Moreno Morales & Irene Mª Ruiz Fernández

  2. 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.

  3. CHILD 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.

  4. FORMS OF FORCED LABOUR • Slavery • Farm and rural debt bondage • Bonded labor • People trafficking • Abuse of domestic workers • Prison labor • Compulsory work • Military labor

  5. SOLUTIONS • 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.

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