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Nine other escapees were arrested by Thai troops as they tried to enter
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Outside ILO Jurisdiction By Jim Andrews Prisoners sentenced to hard labor for criminal offences are not covered by the ILO’s Forced Labour Convention, although their exclusion does not deny them basic human rights, such as adequate food, clothing, shelter and medical attention. The Convention, which also bears Specifically, Article 2 of the 1930 Convention allows “any work or service exacted from any person as a consequence of a conviction in a court of law, provided that the said work or service is carried out under the supervision and control of a public authority and that the said person is not hired to or placed at the disposal of private individuals, companies or associations.”
Army service is not exclusively banned by the Convention, but the ILO is nonetheless unhappy about prisoners being used as porters. “In encouraging the authorities to stop using villagers as porters, the ILO cannot accept or condone an alternative like this, which is just as bad,” says the ILO representative in |
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