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What is
labour exploitation?
According to the ILO Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), forced or compulsory labour is: “all work or service which is exacted from any person under the threat of a penalty and for which the person has not offered himself or herself voluntarily.” This definition consists of three elements.
Work of service
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Work or service refers to all types of work occurring in any activity, industry or sector including in the informal economy.
Menace of any penalty
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Menace of any penalty refers to a wide range of penalties used to compel someone to work.
Involuntariness
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The terms “offered voluntarily” refers to the free and informed consent of a worker to take a job and his or her freedom to leave at any time. This is not the case for example when an employer or recruiter makes false promises so that a worker takes a job he or she would not otherwise have accepted.
likely to be at risk
32%
SERVICES SECTOR
The services sector comprises a wide range of economic activities including trade, transport, hospitality and non-market social.
16%
CONSTRUCTION
Many cases involve migrant workers whose situations of forced labour stem from extortionate recruitment fees and other fraudulent recruitment practices of unscrupulous labour intermediaries.
19%
MANUFACTURING
Manufacturing involves the transformation of raw materials from agriculture, forestry, fishing, as well as the transformationof other manufacturing products into new products.
8%
DOMESTIC WORK
Domestic workers, the majority of whom are female, are especially vulnerable to forced labour because of their isolation, deep power imbalances with their employers, and their limited acces to complaints mechanisms and opportunities to organize.
13%
AGRICULTURE
Particularly at risk are seasonal migrant workers recruited through informal labour intermediaries. Other cases of agricultural forced labour involve people who were born into a life of slavery in animal herding or field work beacause of their social class.
1,4%
MINING AND QUARRYING
These include adult workers who are forced to dig for minerals or perform other mining and quarrying work, fishers who are trapped in forced labour aboard fishing vessels, people forced to beg on the street, and people forced into illicit activities.
Statistical data according to the Global Estimates of Modern Slavery: Forced Labour and Forced Marriage.
This report was produced through a collaboration between the ILO, Walk Free and the International Organization for Migration.
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Emergency Contacts
Memorize the phone numbers you can call in an emergency. Find out if there is an anti-trafficking hotline in the country where you will be working.
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112 – EMERGENCY NATIONAL LINE (RO/EN)
119 – EMERGENCY LINE FOR ISSUES RELATED TO CHILDREN (RO/ EN)
+40 021 95905 – ROMANIAN BORDER POLICE (UA/RO/EN)
+40 214 107 513 – GENERAL INSPECTORATE FOR MIGRATION (RO/EN)
+40 212 103 050 – IOM ROMANIA (UA/RU)
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