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Ethiopia - Elimination of forced labour - Law, Act

Proclamation No.1178/2020 Prevention and Suppression of Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Persons. -

Adoption: 2020-04-01 | ETH-2020-L-113354

Implements the Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons especially Women and Children and the Protocol Against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air issued by the United Nations. The Proclamation provides a comprehensive framework to address trafficking and smuggling of persons and repeals the Prevention and Suppression of Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants Proclamation No. 909/2015.

PART ONE - GENERAL

PART TWO - TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS, SMUGGLING OF PERSONS, UNLAWFUL SENDING OF PERSON ABROAD FOR WORK AND RELATED CRIMES
Section One - Trafficking in Persons
Section Two - Crime of Smuggling of Persons
Section Three - Crimes of Maritime Employment
Section Four - Related Crimes

PART THREE - CRIME PREVENTION, INVESTIGATION AND APPROPRIATION OF PROPERTY

PART FOUR - PROTECTION OF VICTIMS, REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION

PART FIVE - ESTABLISHMENT OF FUND

SECTION SIX - THE NATIONAL COUNCIL, INSTITUTIONAL ROLES AND COOPERATION

SECTION SEVEN - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Ethiopia - Elimination of forced labour - Law, Act

Prevention and Suppression of Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants Proclamation No. 909/2015. -

Adoption: 2015-08-15 | ETH-2015-L-101059

The Proclamation contains seven parts and 50 articles. It defines the offence of trafficking in persons, assisting and facilitating trafficking in persons as well as smuggling migrants. Details the penalties for each of the offences, which are increased when the victim of trafficking or smuggling is a child, a woman or a person with a disability, or suffers any psychological or physical harm or when the trafficker or smuggler uses drugs, medicine or weapons or is a person in the public service, a civil servant or a recidivist.

Consent cannot be used as a defence if the victim is a child or if the consent was obtained, inter alia, by a means of threat, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or by using the vulnerability or by giving or receiving bribe or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person.

The Proclamation also sets out procedures for the investigation of smuggling and trafficking offences as well as establishing procedures for the protection and rehabilitation of victims of trafficking. It establishes a Fund to prevent, control and rehabilitate victims of crime of trafficking in human and smuggling of migrants and establishes a national committee to oversee the implementation of the law.

Repeals Articles 243, 596, 597, 598, 599 and 635 of the Criminal Code of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.

Ethiopia - Elimination of forced labour - Law, Act

Ratification Proclamation for the Convention on Forced or Compulsory Labour. Proclamation No. 336/2003 -

Adoption: 2003-05-08 | Date of entry into force: 2003-05-08 | ETH-2003-L-71064

Empowers the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs to undertake all activities necessary for the implementation of the Convention.

Ethiopia - Elimination of forced labour - Miscellaneous (circular, directive, legal notice, instruction, etc.)

Human Trafficking Assessment Report - Final. -

Adoption: 2002 | ETH-2002-M-101058