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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 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
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: