Abolition of Forced Labour
Abolition of Forced Labour : ILO Convention No. 29 (1930) concerns the suppression of forced labour. The fundamental commitment made by Member States ratifying the Convention is to suppress the use of forced or compulsory labour in all its forms in the shortest possible time. A general definition of forced or compulsory labour is given, but the Convention does not apply to five categories of work or compulsory service, subject to certain conditions and guarantees. The five categories are: compulsory military service; certain civic obligations; prison labour; work exacted in cases of emergency; and minor communal services. The illegal exaction of forced or compulsory labour shall be punishable as a penal offence. ILO Convention No. 105 (1957) aims to prohibit the recourse to forced or compulsory labour in any form for certain purposes. Under this Convention, Member States undertake to suppress any form of forced or compulsory labour in five defined cases, namely: as a means of political coercion or education or as a punishment for holding or expressing political views or views ideologically opposed to the established political, social or economic system; as a method of mobilizing and using labour for purposes of economic development; as a means of labour discipline; as a punishment for having participated in strikes; as a means of racial, social, national or religious discrimination. See: Child labour; Trafficking
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