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Knowledge, History and Power: In conversation.

Objectives:

To increase awareness of the transformational and liberating power of accurate knowledge to end racism and racial discrimination.

To highlight some of the challenges in sharing accurate knowledge about the difficult history of enslavement and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

To examine some of best practices in sharing accurate knowledge about enslavement, racism and racial discrimination through media and journalism.

To engender and mobilize greater support for racial justice in public education.

To consider the role of power in addressing white supremacy and systemic racism.

To understand how those whose ancestors profited from the trade enslaved in Africans can make amends and contribute to reconciliation.

To inspire a movement of shared humanity while empowering the audience

to fight for the rights of and justice for the global African diaspora.

#Outreach Programme on the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery #United Nations Department of Global Communications #enslavement #racism and racial discrimination #history of enslavement

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More than 10 million people are trapped in modern slavery.

In 2016; 40 million people trapped in modern slavery, In 2021; There 50 million people trapped in modern slavery and 10 million more people cannot refuse or leave because of threats, violence, coercion, deception, or abuse of power.

#forced labor #domestic labor #child labour #trafficking in persons #modern slavery #sexual exploitation #international labour organisation #estimates

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Governments, employers' organizations, trade unions and civil society must come together to help End Modern Slavery.

The UN migration and the WalkFree new report shows 50 million people globally are in modern slavery. Nothing can justify the persistence of this fundamental abuse of human rights. Governments, employers' organizations, trade unions and civil society must come together to help End Modern Slavery.

#international labour organisation #Modern slavery

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Raise awareness about modern slavery. 

Three cartoonists from Portugal, Turkey and Uzbekistan have won top prizes in an international cartoon competition aimed at raising awareness about modern slavery. They were chosen by a panel of judges and the general public, out of 460 entries from cartoonists in 65 countries, who responded to the challenge “What if your pencil was a tool against forced labour?” Portuguese cartoonist, Gargalo Vasco was awarded the top prize.

The competition was organized by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Human Resources Without Borders (RHSF) , in partnership with Cartooning for Peace . It elicited very different cartoons, with powerful messages encouraging reflection.

#cartoonists #Human Resources Without Borders (RHSF) #modern slavery #comtemporary slavery #Cartooning for Peace #International Labour Organization (ILO)

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General Assembly president sends a message on the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery 2020.

Statement by the President of the 75th session of the General Assembly on the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery 2020.

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COVID-19 impact on Child labour and Forced Labour: The response of the IPEC+ Flagship Programme.

Based on an analysis of the most evident effects of COVID-19 on child labour and forced labour, the briefing note presents 6 urgent interventions aimed to reach around 1 million vulnerable children, communities and families in 10 countries.

#Child labour #International Labour Organization (ILO) #covid 19 #IPEC+

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Eradicate Forced Marriage!

Marriage before the age of 18 is a fundamental violation of human rights. Many factors interact to place a child at risk of marriage, including poverty, the perception that marriage will provide ‘protection’, family honor, social norms, customary or religious laws that condone the practice, an inadequate legislative framework and the state of a country’s civil registration system. While the practice is more common among girls than boys, it is a violation of rights regardless of sex.

Child marriage often compromises a girl’s development by resulting in early pregnancy and social isolation, interrupting her schooling, limiting her opportunities for career and vocational advancement and placing her at risk of domestic violence. Although the impact on child grooms has not been extensively studied, marriage may similarly place boys in an adult role for which they are unprepared, and may place economic pressures on them and curtail their opportunities for further education or career advancement.

Cohabitation – when a couple lives ‘in union’, as if married – raises the same human rights concerns as marriage. When a couple cohabitates, the assumption is often that they are adults, even if one or both has not yet reached the age of 18. Additional concerns due to the informality of the relationship – in terms of inheritance, citizenship and social recognition, for example – may make children in informal unions vulnerable in different ways than those who are formally married.

The issue of child marriage is addressed in a number of international conventions and agreements. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, for example, covers the right to protection from child marriage in article 16, which states: “The betrothal and the marriage of a child shall have no legal effect, and all necessary action, including legislation, shall be taken to specify a minimum age for marriage….” The right to ‘free and full’ consent to marriage is recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which says that consent cannot be ‘free and full’ when one of the parties involved is not sufficiently mature to make an informed decision about a life partner. Although marriage is not mentioned directly in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, child marriage is linked to other rights – such as the right to freedom of expression, the right to protection from all forms of abuse, and the right to be protected from harmful traditional practices – and is frequently addressed by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. Other international agreements related to child marriage are the Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa.

#Forced Marriage #a girl’s development #Minimum Age for Marriage #Convention on Consent to Marriage #right to protection from all forms of abuse #right to be protected from harmful traditional practices #Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women #convention #protocol #ohchr

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Fighting Slavery: Is there a Role for International Criminal Justice?

The Event entitled "Fighting Slavery: Is there a Role for International Criminal Justice?" (organized by the Permanent Mission of Liechtenstein, in collaboration with the United Nations University (UNU))

#Permament missions #United Nations University (UNU) #conferences #modern slavery

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Eradicate Domestic servitude!

How is domestic servitude different from slavery?

Indentured servitude differed from slavery in that it was a form of debt bondage, meaning it was an agreed upon term of unpaid labor that usually paid off the costs of the servant's immigration to America. Indentured servants were not paid wages but they were generally housed, clothed, and fed.

It is a crime in which a domestic worker is not free to leave his or her employment and is abused and underpaid, if paid at all.

The domestic slave trade, also known as the Second Middle Passage and the interregional slave trade, was the term for the domestic trade of enslaved people within the United States that reallocated slaves across states during the Antebellum period. 

#Domestic servitude #domestic slave trade #domestic servitude

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Eradicate Sex Trafficking!

According to the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, trafficking in persons means the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion for the purpose of exploitation.

Exploitation of persons includes prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs. The consent of the person trafficked for exploitation is irrelevant and If the trafficked person is a child, it is a crime even without the use of force. The Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons.

#trafficking in persons #modern slavery #comtemporary slavery #protocol #human trafficking #Exploitation of persons #trafficked persons #Protocol to Prevent Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons #women and children #Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons

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Eradicate Child labour!

Globally, one in ten children works. The majority of the child labour that occurs today is for economic exploitation. That goes against the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which recognizes “the right of the child to be protected from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child’s education, or to be harmful to the child’s health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development.”

#economic exploitation #right of the child #hazardous work #child’s education #one in ten children #modern slavery #Convention on the Rights of the Child #comtemporary slavery

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Eradicate Bonded Labor!

Bonded labor, also known as debt bondage and peonage, happens when people give themselves into slavery as security against a loan or when they inherit a debt from a relative.

Bonded labour has existed for hundreds of years. After the Transatlantic slave trade was abolished in the 1800s, many formerly enslaved people were forced into indentured labour – a form of debt bondage – for many years on plantations in Africa, the Caribbean and South-East Asia. 

Today, bonded labour is most widespread in South Asian countries including India and Pakistan, where it flourishes, for example, in agriculture, brick kilns, mills, mines and factories. It often occurs alongside other forms of modern slavery such as human trafficking. 

In some societies, debt is shared by whole families who have to work to pay off debts taken on by a relative. Sometimes, the debt can even be inherited by children, who are then held in slavery because of a loan their parents took out decades ago. 

#modern slavery #comtemporary slavery #Bonded labor #End slavery #Debt Bondage #human trafficking #Youtube

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Eradicate forced labour!

Alongside traditional forms of forced labour, such as bonded labour and debt bondage there now exist more contemporary forms of forced labour, such as migrant workers, who have been trafficked for economic exploitation of every kind in the world economy: work in domestic servitude, the construction industry, the food and garment industry, the agricultural sector and in forced prostitution.

#contemporary forms of forced labour #traditional forms of forced labour #migrant workers #domestic workers #Agricultural workers #Infrastructure workers #food distribution

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Eradicate the contemporary forms of slavery.

The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery focus on eradicating contemporary forms of slavery, such as trafficking in persons, sexual exploitation, the worst forms of child labour, forced marriage, and the forced recruitment of children for use in armed conflict.

Slavery has evolved and manifested itself in different ways throughout history. Today some traditional forms of slavery still persist in their earlier forms, while others have been transformed into new ones. The UN human rights bodies have documented the persistence of old forms of slavery that are embedded in traditional beliefs and customs. These forms of slavery are the result of long-standing discrimination against the most vulnerable groups in societies, such as those regarded as being of low caste, tribal minorities and indigenous peoples.

#trafficking in persons #sexual exploitation #child labour #forced marriage #forced recruitment #International Day for the Abolition of Slavery #modern slavery #comtemporary slavery #2 december #campaign #human rights bodies

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Adopt the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others.

Preamble

Whereas prostitution and the accompanying evil of the traffic in persons for the purpose of prostitution are incompatible with the dignity and worth of the human person and endanger the welfare of the individual, the family and the community,

Whereas , with respect to the suppression of the traffic in women and children, the following international instruments are in force:

(1) International Agreement of 18 May 1904 for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic, as amended by the Protocol approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 3 December 1948,

(2) International Convention of 4 May 1910 for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic, as amended by the above-mentioned Protocol,

(3) International Convention of 30 September 1921 for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children, as amended by the Protocol approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 20 October 1947,

(4) International Convention of 11 October 1933 for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women of Full Age, as amended by the aforesaid Protocol,

Whereas the League of Nations in 1937 prepared a draft Convention extending the scope of the above-mentioned instruments, and

Whereas developments since 1937 make feasible the conclusion of a convention consolidating the above-mentioned instruments and embodying the substance of the 1937 draft Convention as well as desirable alterations therein:

Now therefore

The Contracting parties

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Bring into force all the legal instruments necessary to eradicate the scourge.

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon marked the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery 2010 on December 2nd by urging States to bring into force all the legal instruments necessary to eradicate the scourge. Although States worldwide support laws banning slavery.

Annual UN observance spotlights need to eradicate crime of modern slavery.

#united nations secretary general #modern slavery #legal instruments #International Day for the Abolition of Slavery #2 december #Statements

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Read the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 317(IV) of 2 December 1949.

The United Nations General Assembly approves the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others ,and proposes that each Member States of the United Nations and each non-member State which the appropriate organ of the United Nations may invite to observe the day.

#united nations general assembly #Resolution #comtemporary slavery #modern slavery #sexual exploitation #traditional forms of forced labour #trafficking in persons #2 december #Year 1949