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• Protection and promotion of the rights of victims of bonded labour should be part
of the educational programmes on forced labour. These training programmes
should be delivered to State and non-State actors.
• Research needs to be developed on bonded labour with regard to its links to land
reform, the impact of privatization programmes, access to microcredit, labour
migration policies, and immigration and foreign labour recruitment policies. This
research should contain gender- and age-specific data.
• All the development programmes should be carefully audited from the perspective
of human rights protection and inclusion.
• Policies and practices should be developed to ensure the effective access of
vulnerable people to their rights to education, health, food, land and secure
employment.
• Businesses should include human rights principles, including provisions on the
prevention of and protection against forced labour, in all contracts with joint
venture partners, suppliers and subcontractors. Businesses should apply human
rights through their entire business supply chains.
99. With regard to the prosecution of violators and the protection of the rights of victims
of forced labour (including bonded labour), the Special Rapporteur recommends the
following:
• Specific legislation with regard to bonded labour also needs to be developed. This
needs to be done alongside the establishment of compensation schemes and
reintegration programmes for those who suffered from this crime.
• National legislation should view forced labour in a global context incorporating
criminalization of different forms of forced labour not limited to trafficking in
human beings and specifically including bonded labour and other slavery-like
practices.
• Existing legislation on forced labour should be enforced and bonded labour should
be criminalized; compensation schemes should be sought for those who suffered
from that crime.
• Stronger guidelines and policing of labour agents, e.g. domestic labour agencies
and construction labour contractors, and of marriage brokers and small industries
in remote areas, should be developed.
• Monitoring mechanisms should be developed for employment agencies and their
supply chains to detect and combat bonded labour.
• Cooperation should be established between the labour inspection services, law
enforcement agencies, other State agencies and NGOs that have professional
competence in the area.
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