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Life Preservers Project, "Who’s In? Who’s Not?"
November 24, 2020
By: Jessie G. Torres
Life Preservers Project
Last week, a colleague shared a story by Kieran Guilbert (for Reuters) about Costa Rica becoming the 47th nation to back a 2014 pact of a UN Treaty to combat forced labor. (See: Costa Rica Backs U.N. Treaty to Combat Forced Labor). According to the article, the pact “requires countries to identify and rescue victims of forced labor, provide them with compensation and punish human traffickers.” The best thing about this pact, a protocol to the U.N. International Labour Organization (ILO), it is a legally binding treaty.
