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• Ensure basic social security guarantees in order to reduce vulnerability to debt
bondage.
• Take all possible steps to ensure that all members of the population can fulfil
their right to education.
• Ensure effective regulation of private sector organizations in line with the
Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
• Invest in programmes that facilitate people’s access to decent work
opportunities, in order to ensure that they have economic alternatives to debt
bondage.
• Ensure full respect of the rights to freedom of association and of peaceful
assembly, as well as the right to collective bargaining, to support decent work
and the ability of bonded labourers to advocate for their rights.
• Prevention and elimination of discrimination.
• As stated above, ensure that legislation is in place to protect from
discrimination those who are vulnerable to bonded labour in order to prevent
situations of exploitation.
• Undertake public-awareness-raising campaigns to challenge stigma and
prejudices towards groups vulnerable to debt bondage, and sensitize
populations to the rights of such people.
• Implement human rights-based training on the prevention and elimination of
all forms of discrimination across State institutions.
• Integrate provisions designed to prevent stigma and prejudice against
populations vulnerable to debt bondage, within all educational curricula.
• Victims of debt bondage should be ensured equal access to justice and access to
effective remedies. States should ensure that persons in debt bondage who seek
to access the judicial system do not encounter discriminatory attitudes and/or
policies which impede access to their rights under law.
• Remove any forms of discrimination that negatively impact on the rights of
certain groups, including girls, indigenous peoples and migrant children, to an
education.
• Protect migrant workers.
• As outlined above, invest in the development of economic alternatives to reduce
the push factors that drive individuals into migration that can lead to
exploitative labour.
• Develop a comprehensive system of regulation of recruitment practices in
relation to migrant workers that includes the banning of recruitment fees and
the issuing of licences to recruiters and other related intermediaries.
• Origin and destination countries should work together to ensure the effective
monitoring of the situation of migrant workers and that adequate protection
systems are in place.
• Identification, data collection, assistance and rehabilitation.
• Undertake national and/or regional surveys to identify victims of debt bondage;
these should include disaggregated information on those affected, by age,
gender, nationality, caste and ethnic group, as well as information about the
industries in which debt bondage is prevalent. Such surveys should cover
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