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  2. Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights

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    The Commission of Human Rights stated in Van Droogenbroeck v Belgium [5] that servitude involves an obligation that is placed on an individual to provide work as well as a violation of freedom. [6] The violation of freedom must involve the individual being forced to live on another's property.

  3. Slavery in international law - Wikipedia

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    Slavery in international law is governed by a number of treaties, conventions and declarations. Foremost among these is the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (1948) that states in Article 4: “no one should be held in slavery or servitude, slavery in all of its forms should be eliminated.” [1]

  4. Human trafficking - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, human trafficking involves exploitation and a lack of consent, often through force, fraud, or coercion. Human trafficking is widely condemned as a violation of human rights by international agreements such as the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons. Despite this condemnation, legal ...

  5. UN rights chief urges states to act on slavery reparations - AOL

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    The United Nations human rights chief called for countries to take concrete steps on reparations for people of African descent at a U.N. meeting on Friday, adding his voice to calls for justice ...

  6. International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery ...

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    The day honours and remembers those who suffered and died as a consequence of the transatlantic slave trade, which has been called "the worst violation of human rights in history", [1] in which over 400 years more than 15 million men, women and children were the victims. [2]

  7. Human rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This article may lend undue weight to certain ideas, incidents, or controversies.The specific problem is: both sourced and unsourced criticisms of the country's human rights record (major WP:UNDUE and WP:BALANCE issues; the article should not resemble a database for every possible criticism of the U.S. human rights record found on Google; instead, it should rely on reliable sources, preferably ...

  8. Crimes against humanity - Wikipedia

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    In the section "Additional measures concerning violence in conflict and post-conflict situations", states in paragraph 69 that member states should: "penalize rape, sexual slavery, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity as an intolerable violation of human rights, as crimes against ...

  9. US implicates 5 Israeli units in rights violations before ...

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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States found five units of Israel's security forces responsible for gross violations of human rights, the first time Washington has reached such a conclusion about ...