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- No one shall be held in slavery; slavery and the slave-trade in all their forms shall be prohibited.
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- No one shall be held in servitude.
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- (a)No one shall be required to perform forced or compulsory labour;
- (b)Paragraph 3 (a ) shall not be held to preclude, in countries where imprisonment with hard labour may be imposed as a punishment for a crime, the performance of hard labour in pursuance of a sentence to such punishment by a competent court;
- (c)For the purpose of this paragraph the term “forced or compulsory labour” shall not include:
- (i)Any work or service, not referred to in sub-paragraph (b), normally required of a person who is under detention in consequence of a lawful order of a court, or of a person during conditional release from such detention;
- (ii)Any service of a military character and, in countries where conscientious objection is recognized, any national service required by law of conscientious objectors;
- (iii)Any service exacted in cases of emergency or calamity threatening the life of well-being of the community;
- (iv)Any work or service which forms part of normal civil obligations.
