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PREAMBLE     [go to this PREAMBLE]
... 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 determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international Convention, ...


ARTICLE-1     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Each Member of the International Labour Organisation which ratifies this Convention undertakes to suppress and not to make use of any form of forced or compulsory labour: ...


ARTICLE-2     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Each Member of the International Labour Organisation which ratifies this Convention undertakes to take effective measures to secure the immediate and complete abolition of forced or compulsory labour as specified in article 1 of this Convention. ...


ARTICLE-3     [go to this ARTICLE]
... The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration. ...


ARTICLE-4     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members of the International Labour Organisation whose ratifications have been registered with the Director-General. ...


ARTICLE-5     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 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. ...


ARTICLE-6     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 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. ...
... 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. ...


ARTICLE-7     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 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-8     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 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 the 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-10     [go to this ARTICLE]
... The foregoing is the authentic text of the Convention duly adopted by the General Conference of the International Labour Organisation during its fortieth session which was held at Geneva and declared closed the twenty-seventh day of June 1957. ...