Related EESC opinions
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- REX/539 Trade Policy Review - An Open, Sustainable and Assertive Trade Policy
- REX/535 Next Generation Trade and Sustainable Development – Reviewing the 15-point action plan
- REX/532 Sustainable supply chains and decent work in international trade
- REX/395 Combating forced labour in the EU and the world: the role of the EU – the EESC's contribution to the 2014 ILO conference
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Related EESC publications
Workers' Group calls for decent work worldwide
European Commission
- Proposal for a Regulation of the EP and of the Council on prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market COM(2022) 453 final
- Call for evidence: Effectively banning products produced, extracted or harvested with forced labour
- Charter of fundamental rights of the European Union (2012/C 326/02)
- Prohibition of slavery and forced labour
- Guidance on due diligence for EU companies to address the risk of forced labour in their operations and supply chains
- Press release: Commission sets out strategy to promote decent work worldwide and prepares instrument for ban on forced labour products
- Communication from the Commission to the EP, the Council and the EESC on decent work worldwide for a global just transition and a sustainable recovery COM/2022/66 final
- Proposal for a Directive of the EP and of the Council on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence and amending Directive (EU) 2019/1937 COM/2022/71 final
European Parliament
- EP resolution of 9 June 2022 on a new trade instrument to ban products made by forced labour (2022/2611(RSP))
Council of the EU
European External Action Service
- Statement by the Spokesperson on the situation in Xinjiang
- Xinjiang: Speech by HR/VP Josep Borrell at the EP debate on the human rights situation
- Let’s not only imagine a world without child labour but let’s act on it
- No to child labour – protecting children’s present and future
Other sources
- ILO Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29)
- ILO C105 - Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105)
- ILO decent work
- UNICEF/ILO: Child labour – Global estimates 2020, trends and the road forward
- ETUC: Unions back EU ban on forced labour goods
- ITUC on child labour/forced labour
- Civil Society Statement on the Proposed Regulation on Prohibiting Products Made with Forced Labour on the Union Market
- Business Europe's preliminary input to the EC call for evidence - Forced labour
- ETUC Input to the call for evidence - Forced labour
- SMEUnited: Proposal to ban forced labour products lacks clear priorities
- SMEUnited: Ban of forced labour products initiative needs proper impact assessment
- Solidar: A step towards ending forced labour
- AmCham position paper to the call for evidence - Forced labour
- Policy position paper of ASEAN Confederation of Employers on forced labour and human trafficking