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This guide aims to explain why ratification and implementation of P029, the “Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930” (the Forced Labour Protocol) represents a vital opportunity for trade unions and their allies to obtain, through social dialogue and action, measures to end exploitative labor practices and advance opportunities for decent work. It sets out the challenges to obtaining decent work posed by the laws, policies and practices that facilitate forced labor and trafficking in the contemporary world. It explains key elements that the Forced Labour Protocol enshrines in law when ratified. The guide also aims to explain some of the key opportunities to build pressure for ratification of the Forced Labour Protocol and looks at some specific obstacles to that ratification.

This guide aims to explain why ratification and implementation of P29, the “Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930” (the Forced Labour Protocol) represents a vital opportunity for trade unions and their allies to obtain, through social dialogue and action, measures to end exploitative labor practices and advance opportunities for decent work. It sets out the challenges to obtaining decent work posed by the laws, policies and practices that facilitate forced labor and trafficking in the contemporary world. It explains key elements that the Forced Labour Protocol enshrines in law when ratified. The guide also aims to explain some of the key opportunities to build pressure for ratification of the Forced Labour Protocol and looks at some specific obstacles to that ratification.

A presentation with information about international labor standards; and characteristics and statistics about forced labor.

An article reporting that the Somos Tesoro project, Acción Fund and Sustainable Week presented the Mayors of nine municipalities of Antioquia and Boyacá with the Somos Tesoro award for the actions taken in 2016 to prevent and eliminate child labor in mining.

A report outlining Peru's criminal laws regarding modern forms of slavery, with special emphasis on those provisions related to the regulation of the crime of forced labor, typified in article 168-B of the Penal Code, and its link with the related criminal types of trafficking in persons, typified in article 153 of the Penal Code, and slavery, typified in article 153-B of the same rule.