Guinea-Bissau

Article 11

1. The economic and social organization of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau shall promote its principles of a free market, the subordination of economic power to political power, and the co-existence of public, cooperative, and private property.
2. The goal of the economic and social organization of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau shall be to continually promote the people’s welfare and to eliminate all forms of submission of human beings to harmful interests which profit individuals, groups, or classes.

Article 29

1. The exercise of fundamental rights, liberties, and guarantees may only be suspended or limited in the case of martial law or of a state of emergency that is declared according to terms of law.
2. Laws of a general or abstract nature which restrict rights, liberties, or guarantees must be limited to those necessary to safeguard other constitutionally-protected rights or interests; they may neither be retroactive nor neither diminish or essentially damage rights.

Article 36

1. Work shall be the right and duty of each citizen.
2. The State shall gradually create conditions for the full employment of citizens able to work.
3. The State shall recognize and guarantee to each citizen the right to be trained in his profession or generally for work, in accordance with the needs and fundamental imperatives of the National Reconstruction.
4. All workers shall have the right to remuneration for their work, depending on the quantity, quality, and the nature of their work, observing the principle of equal pay for equal work, so as to guarantee a dignified living.

Article 37

1. Workers shall have the right to protection, safety, and hygiene at work.
2. Workers may only be fired according to terms provided for by law.

3. The State shall gradually create a system able to guarantee each worker social security in his old age and in case of illness or becoming incapacitated from working.

Constitution of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (PDF)

Article 106. Slavery

1. Whoever, by any means, places another human being in the situation of a slave, avails himself of it in this condition, maintains the said situation, or gives or receives such a person is punished with imprisonment for five to eight years.

serve it in this condition or to maintain that the situation of another person give or receive and punishable with prison from five to fifteen years

2. If the acts referred to in the previous number were practiced:

(A) as a means of facilitating the sexual exploitation or use of the victim, by the agent himself or by a third party;

(B) the victim being under sixteen years of age, or

(C) If the agent has the office that gives him public or religious authority before a group, region or whole of the country,

The agent and punished with imprisonment from five to twenty years.

Penal Code (PDF)

Article 3 General definitions

(A) “trafficking in persons” means the trafficking of persons, the recruitment or reception of persons by means of threats, moral or physical coercion, kidnapping, fraud, deception, forced marriage, abuse of authority or taking advantage of The victim's vulnerability or his or her physical or natural disability or psychic anomaly or the delivery or acceptance of payments or benefits to obtain the consent of the person having authority over the victim for the purpose of sexual exploitation, Forced marriage, extraction of human organs, labor, slavery or similar practices, as well as servitude.

(B) “Forced labor or slavery” For the purpose of forced labor or slavery, and obtaining work or services from or by means of seduction, violence, intimidation or threat, use of force, including deprivation of liberty, abuse of authority or deception.

Article 4. Human Trafficking

(1) Everyone who recruit, be supplied, transport, accommodate a person for prostitution purposes, forced labor, involuntary servitude slavery or servitude for debt and punished with the penalty of prison from 3 to 15 years.

(2) If, as a result of the facts referred to in the preceding paragraph, the victim is injured or killed, the agent is punished with a sentence of 15 to 20 years in prison.

Article 6. Adoption for illicit purposes

(1) Anyone who adopts or facilitates the adoption of persons for the purpose of involvement in prostitution, sexual exploitation and forced labor, slavery, involuntary servitude, shall be punished by imprisonment for 10 to 15 years.

(2) If, as a result of the acts referred to in the preceding paragraph, the victim is injured or killed, the perpetrator shall be punished by imprisonment for 15 to 20 years.

Law to Prevent and Combat Human Trafficking 2011 (PDF)

Note: Article 20 prohibits all forms of child trafficking and prescribes penalties of three to 10 years’ imprisonment and the confiscation of any proceeds from the crime

Article 146. Minimum age of admission to work

It is forbidden to employ minors under the age of fourteen.

General Labor Law (PDF)