College of Law

Slavery is defined as slavery, which is a human being owning another human being and exploiting him. The concept of slavery and slavery has undergone many major developments that have affected the world through the exploitation of different groups for the purposes of slavery, labor, and other methods that are rejected according to international customs and norms based on their violation of moral and human values. Slavery is no longer that concept. The old, which is understood on the basis of taking slaves, selling them, trading them, and considering them as commodities and not human beings. The tragic slave trade continued across the Atlantic Ocean, which witnessed one of the darkest chapters in human history for 400 years, despite the fierce resistance of millions of enslaved peoples, as with the development of the law International law, especially international human rights law and international humanitarian law, has abolished many of the ancient manifestations of slavery and replaced it with a new form of slavery, represented in many cases by forced or compulsory labor, child labour, exploitation and recruitment during armed conflicts, human trafficking and forced marriage,,,
Today, corresponding to December 2, 2023, marks the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, which represents the date adopted by the United Nations General Assembly for its Convention for the Suppression of Trafficking in Persons based on its Resolution No. 317 at the 15th session of December 2, 1949, where the focus on this day is on the elimination of contemporary forms of slavery as well as
The latest estimates by the International Labor Organization show that forced labor and forced marriage, as forms of slavery in our current era, have increased significantly in the past five years. There were ten million people in 2021 compared to global estimates for 2016, bringing the total to fifty million all over the world and still continuing. Women and children are the most vulnerable,
The International Labor Organization also adopted a legally binding protocol aimed at strengthening global efforts to eliminate forced labor, which entered into force in November 2016. It includes 12 articles dealing with forced labor, in an attempt to define the phenomenon of modern slavery and as a contribution to reducing slavery in its new concept and forms in the world. International contribution through the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Customs and Practices Similar to Slavery, 1959.
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