Israel today ratified the convention on the abolition of forced labor which was adopted by the international labor conference last June, it was announced here today.
The convention provides that each member state will not make use of any form of forced or compulsory labor as a means of political coercion or as a means of racial, social, national or religious discrimination. Israel has now ratified 21 of the International Labor Organization’s conventions which together form the so called World Labor Code.
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