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Human rights-based A human rights-based approach accepts that everyone has
approach protected rights regardless of social, economic, cultural and
other aspects. Human rights are indivisible. This means they
apply to everyone in their totality. So, the right to be free of
forced labour goes hand in hand with other rights, for
example the right to non-discrimination, to freedom of
speech and freedom from torture or other degrading
treatments. Those vulnerable to forced labour are also very
often vulnerable to other human rights infringements and
therefore, those developing and implementing NAPFL must
recognise that victims and those at risk, may need to be
supported to realise multiple rights in a concerted manner.
Human trafficking Also known as trafficking in persons, this is defined by the
UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in
Persons (Palermo Protocol) as the recruitment,
transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by
means of the threat or use of force or other forms of
coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of
power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or
receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a
person having control over another person, for the purpose
of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the
exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of
sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or
practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of
organs.
National referral A cooperative framework through which state actors fulfil
mechanism their obligations to protect and promote the human rights of
victims of human forced labour and trafficking. 1
National Action Plan on Forced Labour (2021-2025) 1 OSCE/ODIHR, 2004. National Referral Mechanisms: Joining Efforts to Protect the Rights of
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Non-discrimination ILO Discrimination (Employment and Occupation)
and equality Convention (C111) defines discrimination as any distinction,
exclusion or preference made on the basis of race, colour,
sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social
origin, which has the effect of nullifying or impairing equality
of opportunity or treatment in employment or occupation.
National Action Plan on Forced Labour (2021-2025)
Equality, on the other hand, is a state of affairs where all
individuals, regardless of their personal traits, social and
economic status etc. have the same – equal – access to
decent work, education and other services.
Trauma informed An approach to social work and care that recognises that
approach those receiving services may carry with them traumas from
earlier events (e.g., forced labour situations, or as victims of
violence). The approach encompasses different
methodologies all of which tend to be informed by common
principles such as fundamental recognition of individual
experience and trauma, providing safe environments,
building individual strengths, building empowering
relationships and promoting equality of access.
Victim centred Encompasses the non-criminalisation of victims as well as
approach the protection of victims from their perpetrators. In addition,
a victim centred approach means that victims of forced
labour have a right to voice and redress grievances and be
compensated appropriately. This, in turn, means that victims
must have a say in what happens to them when they have
been identified as victims of forced labour, for example in
which services they receive.