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The strict distinction between free labour and chained slavery has been replaced by a wider understanding that also focuses on forms of informal labour in the Global South or the various types of debt bondage and indentured labour.
Indenture, also known as bonded labour or debt bondage, is a form of unfree labour in which a person works to pay off a debt by pledging himself or herself as collateral. The services required to repay the debt, and their duration, may be undefined. Debt bondage can be passed on from generation to generation, with children required ...
Debt Bondage. Peonage, also known as debt slavery or bonded labour, is the pledge of a person's services as security for the repayment for a debt or other obligation, where the terms of the repayment are not clearly or reasonably stated, and the person who is holding the debt thus has some control over the laborer.
It requires ratifying states to eliminate the worst forms of child labour, including: all forms of slavery or practices similar to slavery, such as the sale and trafficking of children, debt bondage and serfdom and forced or compulsory labour, including forced or compulsory recruitment of children for use in armed conflict; child ...
Breaking the cycle of debt bondage starts with a commitment to fair hiring on the part of brands and their suppliers. Even companies with the best of intentions do not always know what labor abuses are happening in their own supply chains. This is especially true in the case of charging recruitment fees.
The 2010 Trafficking in Persons report described the United States as, "a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically forced labor, debt bondage, and forced prostitution". Sexual slavery in the United States may occur in multiple forms and in multiple venues.
On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, LICADHO publishes its report “Built on Slavery: Debt Bondage and Child Labour in Cambodia’s Brick Factories” which presents evidence of the widespread use of contemporary forms of slavery in Cambodia’s brick manufacturing industry.
