A/HRC/29/38 help to States in the implementation of the Protocol, giving guidance for the drafting of laws and the creation of comprehensive national anti-trafficking strategies, and assisting with resources to implement them. 32. In addition, several ILO instruments are also of relevance to combating trafficking in persons, including ILO Conventions No. 29 (1930) concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour; No. 100 (1951) concerning Equal Remuneration for Men and Women Workers for Work of Equal Value; No. 105 (1957) concerning the Abolition of Forced Labour; No. 111 (1958) concerning Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation; No. 138 (1973) concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment; and No. 182 (1999) concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour. Of particular importance is the Protocol to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 which came into force in 2014, complementing ILO Convention No. 29 and reenforcing existing international law. The Protocol creates new obligations to prevent forced labour, to protect victims and to provide access to remedy, such as compensation for material and physical harm. It is also supported by a recommendation that provides technical guidance on its implementation. 33. ILO Convention No. 189 (2011) concerning decent work for domestic workers, which entered into force in 2013, and its Recommendation No. 201 extend basic labour rights to domestic workers, including those in private households, who are without clear terms of employment, unregistered and excluded from the scope of labour legislation. It stresses States’ duty of diligence in effectively eliminating child labour and sets a minimum age for domestic workers. B. Regional human rights mechanisms 34. The regional specificities of trafficking in persons necessitate regional and subregional anti-trafficking instruments and mechanisms that are at the interface of international action and local realities. 1. Europe and Central Asia 35. The Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, which entered into force in February 2008, applies to all forms of trafficking, whether national or transnational, all victims of trafficking and all forms of exploitation. The Convention is open to ratification by States which are not members of the Council of Europe. The countries which have signed up to the Convention are monitored by the Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings. The Council of Europe also supports governments in the implementation of the Convention and the recommendations emerging from its monitoring process. 36. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has been addressing trafficking in persons as a major concern since 2000, when the first Ministerial Council decision on enhancing OSCE efforts to combat trafficking in human beings was taken. In 2003, the OSCE Action Plan to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings was adopted and in 2006 the Special Representative and Coordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings was appointed. In 2007, a Platform for Action against Human Trafficking was adopted, and in 2013, the Addendum to the OSCE Action Plan to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings: One Decade Later was endorsed. 37. In Central Asia, in 2005 the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) adopted the Agreement on the Cooperation of the CIS Member States in Combating Trafficking in Persons, Human Organs and Tissues, followed by the adoption in 2006 of the Decision on the Programme of Cooperation of the CIS Member States in Combating Trafficking in 11

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