Marshall Islands

Region
Asia-Pacific
Regional Court
Not party to a court
Regional Organisations
None
Legal System
Mixed
International Obligations
Slavery
Servitude
Forced Labour

International Instruments

1926 Slavery Convention
Not Party
1953 Protocol to the Slavery Convention
Not Party
1956 Supplementary Slavery Convention
Not Party
1966 ICCPR
12 March 2018
1930 Forced Labour Convention
Not Party
2014 Protocol to the 1930 Forced Labour Convention
Not Party
1957 Abolition of Forced Labour Convention
Not Party
1999 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention
13 March 2019
2000 Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons
Not Party
1998 Rome Statute of the ICC
07 December 2000

Summary of Domestic Prohibition

Slavery and Slave Trade
Practices Similar to Slavery
Servitude
Forced or Compulsory Labour
Human Trafficking
Provisions related to slavery are found in the Constitution in article 2, section 2 which prohibits slavery. Section 212.3 of the Criminal Code also prohibits knowingly restraining a person so as to substantially interfere with that person’s liberty.
There appears to be no legislation in place in the Marshall Islands which prohibits institutions and practices similar to slavery.
Provisions related to servitude are found in the Constitution in article 2, section 2 which prohibits involuntary servitude and the Criminal Code which makes it an offence to hold a person in a condition of involuntary servitude at section 212.2.
Provisions related to forced labour are found in the Constitution in article 2, section 2 which prohibits forced or compulsory labour.
Provisions related to trafficking in persons are found in the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons Act of 2017 which criminalises sex trafficking, trafficking in children and labor trafficking from section 1005 to 1008. The Criminal Code also criminalises trafficking in persons at section 251.7 and trafficking in children at section 251.8.

Legislative Provisions

CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS 1979 (REV. 1995)

CRIMINAL CODE 2011

PROHIBITION OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS ACT 2017

PROSTITUTION PROHIBITION ACT

MINIMUM WAGE ACT 1986

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 1988

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