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Topic 1: The question of combating the practice and conditions of forced labour.
Director: Serena Gao

“Forced labour” is defined as all work or service which is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself voluntarily. Grounded in poverty and discrimination, forced labour may take place in the context of domestic work, state coercion, migration and human trafficking. The adoption in 1930 of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)’s Forced Labour Convention marked the beginning the widespread prohibition of forced labour.
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Topic 2
Director: Andrew Anson

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The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is the tripartite UN agency that brings together governments, employers and workers of its member states in common action to promote decent work throughout the world. For AMUNC 2008, the ILO Committee will review two questions, one of the questions concerns the practice and conditions of forced labour, the second topic considers the possibility of turning global diversity into an asset building initiative.