Forced Labour in UK Law
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Human trafficking and forced labour. A criticism of the International Labour Organisation
Purpose: During the last ten years, the International Labour Organisation (ILO), and some other international organizations, have increasingly addressed human trafficking from a “forced labour” per...
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Combating Slavery, Forced Labour and Human Trafficking. Are Current International, European and National Instruments Working?
All throughout history, slavery has been a constant and a key factor in economic development. Also for many centuries slavery and forced labour was legal. Only from the beginning of the 20th centur...
- Book Review: Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Forced Labour
- Leveraging International Legal and Human Rights Mechanisms: Efforts to End Forced Labour in Burma/Myanmar
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Monitoring Forced Labour and Slavery in Global Supply Chains: The Case of the California Act on Transparency in Supply Chains
Supply chains have more and more become global supply chains, due to which it becomes increasingly more difficult for states to monitor whether the production process of goods entering the territor...
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Steering CSR Through Home State Regulation: A Comparison of the Impact of the UK Bribery Act and Modern Slavery Act on Global Supply Chain Governance
The home states of multinational enterprises have in recent years sought to use public regulation to fill the gaps left by the absence of a binding labour standards framework in international law. ......... regulation to fi ll the gaps left by the absence of a binding labour standards framework in international law. This article examines recent e state initiatives to address forced labour, human traf fi cking, and slavery in global supply chains, and ......
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Badges of Modern Slavery
Notwithstanding the 19th century formal abolition of slavery as legal ownership of people, modern slavery and forced labour have not been consigned to the past. In fact, their existence is more wid......... of slavery as legal ownership of people, modern slavery and forced labour have not been consigned to the past. In fact, their existence is ......
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Human rights of North Korean migrant workers
There is growing concern over the human rights situation of North Korean migrant workers. Related to the labour system under North Korea’s socialist planned economy, whereby the authorities have di......... of North Korean migrant workers: Opportunity to work or risk of forced labour? Yejoon Rim Korea Institute for National Unification, Seoul, S. ......
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Dancing on the Borders of Article 4: Human Trafficking and the European Court of Human Rights in the Rantsev Case
This article points to four worrisome aspects of the Court's reasoning in Rantsev v. Cyprus and Russia. First, the Court takes on board the concept of human trafficking without offering any meaning......... focus and develop the prohibition s on slavery, servitude an d forced labour. To advance this argument, the relation betwe en, on the one hand, ......
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Making Sense of the Relationship between Trafficking in Persons, Human Smuggling, and Organised Crime: The Case of Nigeria
Trade in human beings, and Nigeria's role in it, is a contested area. This article first sets out to provide an integrated picture, from the varied academic and policy output, of human trafficking ......... incorporate both genders and diverse forms of exploitation, i.e., forced labour, prostitution and domestic servitude. It then outlines how ......
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