Glossary
2025 VSME Recommendation

Forced Labour

All work or service which is exacted from any person under the threat of penalty and for which the person has not offered himself or herself voluntarily according to the ILO Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29). The term encompasses all situations in which persons are coerced by any means to perform work.

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