Oman

Region
Asia-Pacific
Regional Court
Not party to a court
Regional Organisations
Asia Cooperation Dialogue
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
Arab League
Legal System
Mixed
International Obligations
Forced Labour
Human Trafficking

International Instruments

1926 Slavery Convention
Not Party
1953 Protocol to the Slavery Convention
Not Party
1956 Supplementary Slavery Convention
Not Party
1966 ICCPR
Not Party
1930 Forced Labour Convention
30 October 1998
2014 Protocol to the 1930 Forced Labour Convention
Not Party
1957 Abolition of Forced Labour Convention
21 July 2005
1999 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention
11 June 2001
2000 Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons
13 May 2005
1998 Rome Statute of the ICC
Not Party

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 Penal Code at article 260 which makes enslaving a person a criminal offence and article 261 which makes it an offence to dispose of, receive, purchase, or keep a person as a slave.
Provisions related to institutions and practices similar to slavery are found in the Penal Code, which makes it an offence to put a person in a quasi-slavery status under article 260.
There appears to be no legislation in place in Oman which prohibits servitude.
Provisions related to forced labour are found in the Basic Law of the Sultanate of Oman at article 12 which prohibits compulsory work except in accordance with the law for the performance of public service and for a fair wage and the Labour Law which criminalises compulsory or coercive work, with penalties limited to one month imprisonment and fines.
Provisions related to trafficking in persons are found in the 2008 Anti-Human Trafficking which criminalises trafficking Act which criminalises trafficking under article 2.

Legislative Provisions

CONSTITUTION 1996 (REV. 2011) BASIC LAW OF THE SULTANATE OF OMAN ROYAL DECREE NO. 101/96

OMAN PENAL CODE

ROYAL DECREE NUMBER 35/2003 ISSUING THE LABOR LAW

ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING ACT 2008

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