PART 2.1 (Box 6 continued) RIGHT/OBLIGATION TREATY SOURCE Right of access to courts, equality before the courts and a fair trial • • • • • • • • • • • Right not to be submitted to slavery, servitude, forced labour or bonded labour/debt bondage • • • • • • • • • • • • Freedom from slavery in armed conflict • • 54 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, article 14; International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, article 5 (a); Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, article 15; Migrant Workers Convention, article 18; Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, articles 12 and 13; European Convention on Human Rights, article 6; American Convention on Human Rights, articles 8 and 24; African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, article 7; Refugee Convention, article 16; Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, article 8. Non-treaty source: Declaration on the Human Rights of Individuals who are not Nationals of the Country in which They Live, article 5 (c). Slavery Convention, 1926, article 1; Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, 1956, article 1; Convention Concerning Forced and Compulsory Labour, 1930, articles 1, 2 and 4; Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 4; Convention Concerning the Abolition of Forced Labour, 1957, article 1; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, article 8; Migrant Workers Convention, article 11; European Convention on Human Rights, article 4; American Convention on Human Rights, article 6; African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, article 5; Rome Statute, articles 7 (c) and 7 (g). Non-treaty source: Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, article 11. Protocol additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Noninternational Armed Conflicts (Protocol II), article 4; Rome Statute, articles 8 (2)(b)(xxii) and 8 (2)(e)(vi). RECOMMENDED PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING

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