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The Antislavery in Domestic Legislation Project is the world's first comprehensive global database collating and assessing the domestic legislation and international obligations of all UN Member States with regard to slavery and related forms of exploitation.

To assess the extent to which slavery and related forms of human exploitation have been prohibited in domestic law, the Antislavery Legislation Database, hosted on the Antislavery in Domestic Legislation platform, compiles the constitutional, criminal, and labour legislation of all 193 UN Member States, drawing provisions dealing with the following forms of exploitation from these texts:

  • Slavery and the slave trade
  • Servitude
  • Institutions and practices similar to slavery
  • Forced or compulsory labour
  • Trafficking in persons

From over 700 domestic statutes, more than four thousand individual provisions have been extracted and analysed to establish the extent to which each and every State has prohibited these practices through domestic legislation.

Within the Antislavery Legislation Database, these provisions have been collated with a global mapping of States’ commitments to relevant international instruments, to assess the extent to which States have met their international obligations with regard to slavery and related forms of exploitation. Core international obligations to prohibit, and the definitions of these practices, are drawn from five core international instruments:

  • The 1926 Slavery Convention
  • The 1930 Forced Labour Convention
  • The 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery
  • The 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  • The 2000 Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime

A range of additional international instruments are also considered in the analysis, including further international treaties, regional frameworks, and relevant declaratory and non-binding commitments.

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