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General Assembly Third Committee,
Sponsors: Bangladesh, Vietnam, Myanmar
Signatories: Brazil, Laos, Fiji, Sri Lanka, Argentina, Japan, Ghana, Libya, Azerbaijan, New
Zealand, Cuba, USA, Singapore, Mongolia, Colombia, Uganda, Jordan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste,
Luxembourg, Angola, Thailand, France, Denmark, Palau, Malaysia, Madagascar, Guatemala,
Iceland, Egypt, Venezuela, China, UAE, Palestine, Algeria

Agenda: "Addressing to the situation pertaining to the use of illegal human labour with special
emphasis on Asia Pacific based and South Asian Nations"

The General Assembly,

Acknowledging that the lack of awareness of the issue of illegal human labour,

Notes with concern that many children are forced to stay home to support their family or are
engaged in hazardous and abysmal working conditions,

Regrets the drastic women and children sexually exploited for commercial human trafficking,

Draws the attention to the many loopholes and severe flaws present in the legal frameworks of
nations pertaining to the abolishment of all forms of illegal labor,

Noting with regret the fact that many industrial companies prefer cheap and expendable labour
over a highly skilled workforce,

Concerned about the people who are forced into labour through fraudulent schemes which lead
to debt bondage,

Expressing it’s concern for underage children working in rural areas in factories, agricultural and
mining sectors,

Noting with concern the sheer number of minorities being forced to work and sent prosecuted,

Bearing in mind the fact that many nations have put the well-being and thriving ability of
companies and macroeconomic sectors over the ethical, legal issues towards employees as
specified in the International Labor Organisation’s eight fundamental conventions,

Convinced that expatriate and migrant workers are being given a coarsed choice and obligated
against their will to be subjected to debt bondage through unfair contract negotiation,
Regrets the drastic number of women and children sexually exploited for commercial human
trafficking,

Alarmed by the number of incidences recorded regarding extreme violations of human rights in
the informal sector,

Taking into consideration the steps taken by the South Asian nations to reduce illegal human
labour in their respective country,

1. Calls upon countries to conduct awareness sessions to spread information on illegal


human labour;
2. Strongly condemns countries to adopt free and compulsory education;
3. Requests nations to place special emphasis on enforcing the minimum working age
convention and Worst forms of Child Labor Convention by placing extra attention on the
establishment of employers and workers organisations;
4. Further requests member nations to have their governments work on laws that have
loopholes which are exploited by illegal labourers;
5. Approves the usage of support programs in order to provide subsidies to unemployed
parents and scholarships to children;
6. Emphasises on the eradication of forced labour through governmental and non-
governmental organisations;
a. Requests work in coordination with hospitals to gain access to medical records
and track the number of work related incidents in all parts of the countries;
7. Calls upon countries to increase inspectors in rural areas and extend inspection to
agricultural and mining, and industrial sectors;
8. Requests governments to give minorities priority by creating reservations in educational
institutes and governmental jobs, and economic priority;
9. Calls upon the imperative establishment of an organization dedicated to the eradication of
all relevant forms of illegal labor which will be formally referred to as the "International
Eradication of Illegal Labor Organization";
a. This organization can dispatch UN observers into nations that have been accused
of violating the rights of workers and children, pertaining to the guidelines
specified by the International Labor Organization's fundamental conventions;
b. This organization also will work in strong accordance with national governments,
and the International Labor Organization to negotiate further laws and regulations
pertaining to the issue of illegal labor, and decides the extent to which each nation
must follow these uniform laws;
c. Declares that this organisation will place special attention on the efforts which
need to be taken on a local level by competent authorities
as defined in Article 3 of the fundamental Convention 29 of the International
Labor Organisation;

10. Recommends nations to adopt the process of Collective Bargaining Agreements as


adopted by several South East Asian and Pacific Asian nations to prevent expatriates and
migrant workers from incurring large sums of debt and evidently being subjected to debt
bondage, as this prevents the need for poor intermediary brokers through government
involvement and transparency in employer company procedures ;
a) Further requests countries to implement ILO Conventions on Migrant Workers,
Nos. 97 and 143; ILO Convention No. 111 on Non-discrimination and Equality;
ILO Conventions Nos. 19, 118, 157 and 165 on Social Security;
b) Requests nations to implement financial incentive schemes which benefit
companies that hire legal workers over illegal migrant workers ;
c) Draws the attention to the protection of migrant workers rights to join trade
unions and other migrant associations ;
d) Enforcement of guidelines for ethical recruitment and supervision of private
recruitment ;
e) Endorses the Provision of migrant workers with pre-departure information,
training on social and labor conditions in destination countries, life insurance,
pension plans, medical insurance, and basic language training;
f) Further reminds nations of the need for employer sanctions to be placed upon
companies which hire illegal migrant workers knowingly or unknowingly;

11. Expresses its hope for government organizations to be implemented throughout all
member nations to take extreme caution against human trafficking by
a. Maintaining a wing specifically for the provision of emergency legal and medical
assistance for victims;
b. Encourages countries to implement a human trafficking helpline so that suspected
human trafficking can be reported and met with appropriate consequences by the
government;
12. Calls upon countries to accept protocols initiated by the organization specified in clause 9
which promote a country’s economic growth and those that are non inclusive of the
informal economic sector;
a. Encourages countries to implement a force labor helpline so that illegal
occurences in the informal sector can be reported and met with appropriate
consequences by the government;
b. Encourages nations to convert informal economic activities to formal economic
activities through a competent authority enforcing government regulations, these
include but are not limited to government certification and lawful labor
procedures in which informal sector companies can establish unions to negotiate
issues pertaining to the rights of informal economy workers;

13. Requests nations to raise health standards in regard with the work force and hold more
unannounced inspections to make sure human rights are maintained;
14. Requests establishment of grain banks in nations to provide financial aid the families
below the poverty line ;
15. Requests nations to Publicly affirm a commitment to the UN Guiding Principles on
Business and Human Rights and establish human rights and CSR policies to ensure that
labor and human rights, including the rights of children, are respected in supply chains, in
accordance with the Guiding Principles and international labor rights standards;
16. Supports the implementation of trafficking-specific data collection systems for use by the
national police and courts in order to identify rafficking victims among undocumented
migrants;
17. Further invites the establishments of NGOs which could manage the monetary situations
on a local level and provide the country with funding through Gareem banking and grain
banking;
18. Endorses the exchange of expertise and experience among labour inspectors of various
countries in order to optimise the quality of federal inspections in factories.

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