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Record 1 2010-07-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Working Practices and Conditions
DEF

Labour which is required or compelled by government. In totalitarian countries, political or other prisoners may be placed in labor camps and forced to perform services required by the government.

CONT

forced labour: ... all work or service which is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself voluntarily (Convention concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour). Excluded from this definition is compulsory military service; normal civil obligations, penalties imposed by a court, action taken in an emergency, and minor communal services.

OBS

forced labour: Expression and context reproduced from the Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Régimes et conditions de travail
CONT

L'O.I.T. dont le but est d'améliorer les normes de travail, dispose de la convention du 25 juin 1957 sur le travail forcé.

OBS

Convention concernant l'abolition du travail forcé, 1959.

PHR

interdiction du travail forcé.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Prácticas y condiciones de trabajo
DEF

Todo trabajo o servicio exigido a un individuo bajo la amenaza de una pena cualquiera y para el cual dicho individuo no se ofrece voluntariamente, pero no comprende "cualquier trabajo o servicio que se exija a un individuo en virtud de una condena pronunciada por sentencia judicial".

OBS

trabajo forzoso : No es, pues, una expresión de Derecho Penal, a diferencia de "trabajos forzados" (hard labour).

OBS

[La definición proviene del] artículo 2 del Convenio (N° 29) relativo al trabajo forzoso u obligatorio adoptado el 28 de junio de 1930 por la Conferencia General de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo.

OBS

trabajo forzoso: Expresión, definición y observaciones reproducidas del Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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Record 2 1993-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • History (General)
  • Working Practices and Conditions
Key term(s)
  • by statute labour
  • by forced labor

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoire (Généralités)
  • Régimes et conditions de travail

Spanish

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