1.
No one shall be held in slavery; slavery and the slave-trade in all
their forms shall be prohibited.
2. No one shall be held in servitude.
3.
(a) No one shall be required to perform forced or compulsory labour,
(o) Paragraph 3 (a) shall not be held to preclude, in countries where imprison
ment with hard labour may be imposed as a punishment for a crime, the performance
of hard labour in pursuance of a sentence to such punishment by a competent court.
(c) For the purpose of this paragraph the term "forced or compulsory labour"
shall not include:
(i) Any work or service, not referred to in sub-paragraph (b), normally required of
a person who is under detention in consequence of a lawful order of a court, or
of a person during conditional release from such detention;
(ii) Any service of a military character and, in countries where conscientious objec
tion is recognized, any national service required by law of conscientious objec
tors;
(iii) Any service exacted in cases of emergency or calamity threatening the life or
well-being of the community;
(iv) Any work or service which forms part of normal civil obligations.
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In force from 16 December 1966
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