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Bonded labour

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Note:
Debt bondage or bonded labour is an abuse analogous to slavery in which individuals are pledged to work either for a money lender or a landlord to repay a debt or loan. It applies to children who work either for a money lender or for a landowner as bonded labourers to pay off the debts of family members. Article 32 of the CRC dealing with protection against economic exploitation can be invoked. Bonded labour or debt bondage is defined by Article 1(a) of the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery (1956) as "the status or condition arising from a pledge by a debtor of his personal services or of those of a person under his control as security for a debt, if the value of those services as reasonably assessed is not applied towards the liquidation of the debt or the length and nature of those services are not respectively limited and defined."

See also:
Child labour   Economic exploitation   Exploitation   Slavery