Note on the feasibility of ratifying the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930

Meeting document | Ulaanbaatar | 08 May 2019
Conclusion

Mongolia has adopted measures that would appear to give effect to the central requirement of the Protocol to develop and implement a national policy and plan of action for the effective and sustained suppression of forced or compulsory labour, including through specific action against trafficking in persons for the purposes of forced labour. There seems to remain scope, however, for the strengthening of enforcement by labour authorities, including by giving to labour inspection services, in the words of Recommendation No. 203, “the necessary mandate, resources and training to allow them to effectively enforce the law and cooperate with other organizations concerned for the prevention and protection of victims of forced or compulsory labour”.

As in the case of Conventions calling for a national policy to pursue their goals – such as Conventions Nos. 100, 111, 122, and also 182, all ratified by Mongolia – the CEACR is likely to ask for more information about the application in practice of the Protocol than seems readily available. The logic for supervising the application of these instruments is that collection and analysis of the relevant data is indispensable for both the design of the policies and measures to be implemented and the evaluation of the results they have achieved.