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Glossary

Child For the purpose of this NAP, a child is defined as any person
below 18 years old. This definition is consistent with the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child and the ILO
Conventions. National Action Plan on Forced Labour (2021-2025)
Child labour Any work done by persons below 18 years old that are
mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and
harmful to children and/or young persons and/or interferes
with their schooling by depriving them of their dignity,
opportunity to attend school, obliging them to leave school
prematurely, or requiring them to attempt to combine
school attendance with excessively long and heavy work.

Forced labour Defined in ILO Forced Labour Convention (C29) as all work or
service which is exacted from any person under the threat of
a penalty and for which the person has not offered himself
(or herself) voluntarily.

Freedom of Freedom of association essentially means that both workers
association and and employers should be free to form associations – trade
collective unions and employers’ organisations – independently of
bargaining government, in order to represent their interests. Workers’
and employers’ organisations should be able to enter into
negotiations over working conditions, wages etc. and agree
on these freely, so long as they remain within the laws of the
country (e.g. minimum wages legislation or legislation that
prohibits forced labour, child labour and discrimination).
These negotiations are referred to as collective bargaining.
The rights are enshrined in ILO Conventions Freedom of
Association and Protection of the Right to Organise
Convention (C87) and Right to Organise and Collective
Bargaining Convention (C98).