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PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW COMPENDIUM VOLUME II

ARTICLE 15

This

Convention

does

not

prevent

Members

from

concluding multilateral or bilateral agreements with a

view to resolving problems arising from its application.

ARTICLE 16

1. Any Member which ratifies this Convention may, by a

declaration appended to its ratification, exclude either

Part I or Part II from its acceptance of the Convention.

2. Any Member which has made such a declaration may

at any time cancel that declaration by a subsequent

declaration.

3. Every Member for which a declaration made under

paragraph 1 of this Article is in force shall indicate in its

reports upon the application of this Convention the

position of its law and practice in regard to the provisions

of the Part excluded from its acceptance, the extent to

which effect has been given, or is proposed to be given, to

the said provision and the reasons for which it has not yet

included them in its acceptance of the Convention.

ARTICLE 17

The

formal

ratifications

of

this

Convention shall be

communicated

to

the

Director-General

of

the

International Labour Office for registration.

ARTICLE 18

1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those

Members of the International Labour Organisation whose

ratifications

have

been

registered

with

the

Director-General.

2. It shall come into force twelve months after the date on

which

the

ratifications

of

two Members have been

registered with the Director-General.

3. Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any

Member twelve months after the date on which its

ratification has been registered.

ARTICLE 19

1. A Member which has ratified this Convention may

denounce it after the expiration of ten years from the

date on which the Convention first comes into force, by

an act communicated to the Director-General of the

International

Labour

Office

for

registration.

Such

denunciation shall not take effect until one year after the

date on which it is registered.

2. Each Member which has ratified this Convention and

which does not, within the year following the expiration

of the period of ten years mentioned in the preceding

paragraph, exercise the right of denunciation provided for

in this Article, will be bound for another period of ten

years and, thereafter, may denounce this Convention at

the expiration of each period of ten years under the terms

provided for in this Article.

ARTICLE 20

1. The Director-General of the International Labour Office

shall notify all Members of the International Labour

Organisation of the registration of all ratifications and

denunciations communicated to him by the Members of

the Organisation.

2. When notifying the Members of the Organisation of

the registration of the second ratification communicated

to him, the Director-General shall draw the attention of

the Members of the Organisation to the date upon which

the Convention will come into force.

ARTICLE 21

The Director-General of the International Labour Office

shall communicate to the Secretary-General of the United

Nations for registration in accordance with Article 102 of

the Charter of the United Nations full particulars of all

ratifications and acts of denunciation registered by him in

accordance with the provisions of the preceding Articles.

ARTICLE 22

At such times as it may consider necessary the Governing

Body of the International Labour Office shall present to

the General Conference a report on the working of this

Convention and shall examine the desirability of placing

on the agenda of the Conference the question of its

revision in whole or in part.

ARTICLE 23

1.

Should

the

Conference

adopt

a

new

Convention

revising this Convention in whole or in part, then, unless

the new Convention otherwise provides —

a) the ratification by a Member of the new revising

Convention

shall

ipso

jure

involve

the

immediate

denunciation of this Convention, notwithstanding the

provisions of Article 19 above, if and when the new

revising Convention shall have come into force;

b) as from the date when the new revising Convention

comes into force this Convention shall cease to be open

to ratification by the Members.

2. This Convention shall in any case remain in force in its

actual form and content for those Members which have

ratified it but have not ratified the revising Convention.

ARTICLE 24

The English and French versions of the text of this

Convention are equally authoritative.

(Convention

Concerning

Migrations

in

Abusive

Conditions and the Promotion of Equality of Opportunity

and Treatment of Migrant Workers, [July 24, 1975])

Convention Concerning the Abolition of

Forced Labour

June 25, 1957

CONVENTION CONCERNING THE ABOLITION OF

FORCED LABOUR *

The

General

Conference of the International Labour

Organisation,

Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body

of the International Labour Office, and having met in its

Fortieth Session on 5 June 1957, and

Having considered the question of forced labour, which is

the fourth item on the agenda of the session, and

Having

noted

the

provisions

of

the

Forced

Labour

Convention, 1930, and

Having noted that the Slavery Convention, 1926, provides

that all necessary measures shall be taken to prevent

compulsory

or

forced

labour

from

developing

into

conditions

analogous

to

slavery

and

that

the

Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery,

the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to

Slavery, 1956, provides for the complete abolition of debt

bondage and serfdom, and

Having noted that the Protection of Wages Convention,

1949, provides that wages shall be paid regularly and

prohibits methods of payment which deprive the worker

of a genuine possibility of terminating his employment,

and

Having decided upon the adoption of further proposals

with regard to the abolition of certain forms of forced or

compulsory labour constituting a violation of the rights of

man referred to in the Charter of the United Nations and

enunciated

by

the

Universal

Declaration

of

Human

Rights, and

Having determined that these proposals shall take the

form

of

an

international

Convention,

adopts

this

twenty-fifth day of June of the year one thousand nine

hundred and fifty-seven the following Convention, which

may

be

cited

as

the

Abolition

of

Forced

Labour

Convention, 1957:

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