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Acronyms and Abbreviations Glossary

ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations Child For the purpose of this NAP, a child is defined as any person
ATIPSOM Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act 2007 below 18 years old. This definition is consistent with the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child and the ILO
CEACR Committee of Experts on the Applications of Conventions and Conventions. National Action Plan on Forced Labour (2021-2025)
Recommendations
Child labour Any work done by persons below 18 years old that are
CSO Civil Society Organisation mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and
ILO International Labour Organisation harmful to children and/or young persons and/or interferes
with their schooling by depriving them of their dignity,
MEF Malaysian Employers’ Federation opportunity to attend school, obliging them to leave school
MOHA Ministry of Home Affairs prematurely, or requiring them to attempt to combine
school attendance with excessively long and heavy work.
MOHR Ministry of Human Resources

MOL Ministry of Law Forced labour Defined in ILO Forced Labour Convention (C29) as all work or
service which is exacted from any person under the threat of
MSPO Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil a penalty and for which the person has not offered himself
MTUC Malaysian Trades Union Congress (or herself) voluntarily.
NAPBHR National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights Freedom of Freedom of association essentially means that both workers
NAPFL National Action Plan on Forced Labour association and and employers should be free to form associations – trade
collective unions and employers’ organisations – independently of
NAPTIP National Action Plan on Anti-Trafficking in Persons bargaining government, in order to represent their interests. Workers’
NGO Non-Governmental Organisation and employers’ organisations should be able to enter into
negotiations over working conditions, wages etc. and agree
RSPO Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil on these freely, so long as they remain within the laws of the
SOPs Standard Operating Procedures country (e.g. minimum wages legislation or legislation that
prohibits forced labour, child labour and discrimination).
UNGP United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights These negotiations are referred to as collective bargaining.
The rights are enshrined in ILO Conventions Freedom of
National Action Plan on Forced Labour (2021-2025)
Association and Protection of the Right to Organise
Convention (C87) and Right to Organise and Collective
Bargaining Convention (C98).