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Human rights-based A human rights-based approach accepts that everyone has Non-discrimination ILO Discrimination (Employment and Occupation)
approach protected rights regardless of social, economic, cultural and and equality Convention (C111) defines discrimination as any distinction,
other aspects. Human rights are indivisible. This means they exclusion or preference made on the basis of race, colour,
apply to everyone in their totality. So, the right to be free of sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social
forced labour goes hand in hand with other rights, for origin, which has the effect of nullifying or impairing equality
example the right to non-discrimination, to freedom of of opportunity or treatment in employment or occupation.
speech and freedom from torture or other degrading
treatments. Those vulnerable to forced labour are also very National Action Plan on Forced Labour (2021-2025)
often vulnerable to other human rights infringements and Equality, on the other hand, is a state of affairs where all
therefore, those developing and implementing NAPFL must individuals, regardless of their personal traits, social and
recognise that victims and those at risk, may need to be economic status etc. have the same – equal – access to
supported to realise multiple rights in a concerted manner. decent work, education and other services.

Human trafficking Also known as trafficking in persons, this is defined by the
UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Trauma informed An approach to social work and care that recognises that
Persons (Palermo Protocol) as the recruitment, approach those receiving services may carry with them traumas from
transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by earlier events (e.g., forced labour situations, or as victims of
means of the threat or use of force or other forms of violence). The approach encompasses different
coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of methodologies all of which tend to be informed by common
power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or principles such as fundamental recognition of individual
receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a experience and trauma, providing safe environments,
person having control over another person, for the purpose building individual strengths, building empowering
of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the relationships and promoting equality of access.
exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of
sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or Victim centred Encompasses the non-criminalisation of victims as well as
practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of approach the protection of victims from their perpetrators. In addition,
organs. a victim centred approach means that victims of forced
National referral A cooperative framework through which state actors fulfil labour have a right to voice and redress grievances and be
mechanism their obligations to protect and promote the human rights of compensated appropriately. This, in turn, means that victims
victims of human forced labour and trafficking. 1 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.
National Action Plan on Forced Labour (2021-2025) 1 OSCE/ODIHR, 2004. National Referral Mechanisms: Joining Efforts to Protect the Rights of