| Synopsis: |
This review summarizes the core international law against slavery, its origins, and the progress of the international campaign to abolish slave trade and slavery. Subjects covered include: the legal instruments and institutions that have been established to combat slavery (including the United Nations Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery), the evolving definition of slavery, contemporary forms of slavery, and other related practices. The publication also examines forced labour, debt bondage, migrant workers, trafficking in persons, prostitution, forced marriage, the sale of wives and international monitoring mechanisms. |