ABSTRACT
Taking a global view, the main agents and instigators of forced labour phenomena are governments. Migrant labourers are often drawn into the forced labour market because world prices of a particular crop have fallen, and they must shift or starve. Whereas the Forced Labour Convention of 1930 aims to eliminate forced labour generally, the 1957 Abolition of Forced Labour Convention requires the removal and prevention of several defined types. The Anti-Slavery Society then recommended that its report be brought to the attention of the Dominican Republic, Haiti and the United States of America, and to a number of international agencies, of which the International Labour Organization was one. The Dominican Republic and Equatorial Guinea are examples of countries which at stages in their recent history have used the workers of adjacent states for forced labour. As a general principle, funding should be conditional on receipt of invitations to inspect the human rights position of the intended beneficiaries.
