The issue of forced labour

quot D. Forced labour

(7) Imposition of forced labour

However, recent allegations of forced front line labour for local Croats have not been confirmed.

(i) Forced and bonded labour

Forced unremunerated labour

Eliminating forced and child labour

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As for Canada's remarks concerning forced labour, Myanmar continued to cooperate with the International Labour Organization to eradicate forced labour and was striving to uphold the basic human rights of all its citizens.

124. The Committee also expresses its concern regarding the issues of forced labour and slavery.

In general, reports of such forced labour may be divided into three categories forced portering, other forced labouring and different kinds of obligatory guard duty.

An ILO special action programme to combat forced labour is supporting Governments and social partners in their effort to document and eliminate forced labour.

Many were also victims of forced labour and barred from Government employment.

In Bolivia, a different study has also documented the existence of forced labour against indigenous people.

Worst forms of child labour include child prostitution and trafficking.

Because many were forced to migrate, they became potential victims of trafficking and labour exploitation.

Myanmar has been cooperating with the International Labour Organization (ILO) in resolving the issue of forced labour.

The Committee is concerned about the use of forced labour as a corrective measure or as a penal sentence against persons found guilty of a crime, as provided for in the Criminal Code and the Labour Code currently in force in the State party.

You've seen the documentaries of sweatshops making garments all over the world, even in developed countries.

Typically, those who are most vulnerable to slavery and forced labour are women, children, migrants and other members of minority groups.

Reports have also been received from the Banja Luka area of the detention of non Serbs for forced labour.

Forced labour was also reliably reported from Teslic, where it appeared that non Serbs were threatened with death in reprisal for attacks by government forces, and where work teams included the very young and invalids.

The Committee recommends that the State party abolish the use of forced labour either as a corrective measure or as a penal sentence against persons found guilty of a crime, and amend or repeal the relevant provisions of the Criminal Code and the Labour Code in accordance with article 6 of the Covenant.

Fees such as a porter or self reliance development fee for road construction are regularly extorted by Government forces in lieu of forced labour.

Forced labour is also said to be used in the construction of an international airport at Bassein and a new military airfield in Laboutta Township.

(d) The conclusion between the International Labour Organization and the Government of Myanmar of an understanding designed to provide a mechanism to enable victims of forced labour to seek redress

Reports of forced labour were commonplace and anyone accused of making what the Government deemed to be false complaints to the International Labour Organization (ILO) faced prosecution.

Noting that some of the demand for prostitution and forced labour is met by trafficking in persons in some parts of the world,

Children also continue to be recruited as soldiers, trafficked as virtual slaves and used for commercial sexual exploitation and forms of labour that are harmful to their health and development.

The Government of Myanmar has fully cooperated with the ILO liaison officer ad interim in dealing with the complaints relating to requisition of forced labour.

On a number of occasions, men of military age have been held back by the Bosnian Serb forces for continued forced labour.

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Fear of piracy had forced them into the unfair partida system, a form of bonded labour. Others became beggars.

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Civilians living in counter insurgency areas who are unable to carry out their forced labour duties are particularly vulnerable to reprisals and collective punishment.

Algeria had, however, turned a deaf ear, holding the prisoners as hostages and forcing them to perform slave labour, which was yet another violation of the Geneva Convention.

On a positive note, however, the report had argued that forced labour could be abolished if Governments and national institutions pursued active policies and vigorous enforcement measures.

Accurate statistics on trafficking and slavery are extremely difficult to compile, given the illicit and clandestine nature of these practices.

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Widespread reports of forced labour, rape and other sexual violence, extortion and expropriation by Government forces continue to be received.

The Government issued two orders prohibiting the practice of forced civilian labour by military and civilian authorities in 1999 and 2000, stating that it was a punishable offence.