A/HRC/12/21 page 18 78. The Convention on the Rights of the Child and its two optional protocols and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families also contain provisions addressing forced labour and other forms of exploitation. 79. The Slavery Convention of 1926 and the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery of 1956 specifically prohibit the practice of forced or compulsory labour and bonded labour as forms of slavery. 80. The ILO Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105) and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) address the issue of forced labour. Convention No. 29 establishes that forced labour exacted by the State shall be penalized and that it is the obligation of any ratifying State to ensure the enforcement of the Convention and the application of adequate sanctions. Convention No. 105 abolishes all forms of forced labour. Convention No. 182 states that child labour amounts to forced labour when exacted by a third party or family. 81. There are other instruments dealing with forced labour and bonded labour in the more specific context of trafficking, such as the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others of 1949 and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime of 2000. 82. Forced labour, in addition to being prohibited under various conventions, is also recognized as an international criminal offence, irrespective of whether a Government has ratified the relevant conventions prohibiting it.28 “(i) Fair wages and equal remuneration for work of equal value without distinction of any kind, in particular women being guaranteed conditions of work not inferior to those enjoyed by men, with equal pay for equal work; “(ii) A decent living for themselves and their families in accordance with the provisions of the present Covenant; “(b) Safe and healthy working conditions; “(c) Equal opportunity for everyone to be promoted in his employment to an appropriate higher level, subject to no considerations other than those of seniority and competence; “(d) Rest, leisure and reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay, as well as remuneration for public holidays.” 28 See David Weissbrodt and Anti-Slavery International, Abolishing Slavery and its Contemporary Forms, Geneva, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2002 (HR/PUB/02/4).