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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
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