Delegate of Italian Republic

Country : Italian Republic

Committee : United Nations Human Rights Council
Topic : The Growth of Modern Slavery

I. HISTORY OF ISSUE AND COUNTRY’S STANCE

It is already clear on how actually many of scholars defines modern slavery, and we can conclude that it can be
defined as defined as the transportation of persons across international borders for labour purposes by means of force,
frauds or coercion1, which then wil be related into other challenges or crimes such as but not limited to sexual
exploitation, domestic servitude, forced labour, criminal exploitation, or even human trafficking. Beyond honouring
all of the UN member states commitment to the SDGs, there is a moral imperative for governments to respond to this
gross abuse of human rights. The world need to be serious about ending the enslavement of 40.3 million people,
governments will need to redouble efforts to identify victims, arrest perpetrators, and address the drivers.2

Victims are not being identified. Despite the large number of countries that have provided training to their police
and to immigration officials, border guards, or labour inspectors on how to identify victims, the rates of identification
remain extremely low. An estimated 40.3 million men, women, and children were living in modern slavery in 2016. 3
In regards of this issue, Italian republic with European Union through such provision but not lmited to Directive
2012/29/EU on establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime, and Directive
2011/92/EU on combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child pornography4 , as a proves
we are always striving on combatting modern slavery, even though there were 145,000 people living in conditions of
modern slavery in Italy. 5 Despite of such condition, we do really supports and really wants to promote any related
international law, convention, resolution, which also can be found mentioned in HR/PUB/02/4 which is a publication
about Abolishing Slavery and its Contemporary Forms, and invites all of member states to comprehensively discuss
and/or assess current international law that can be suitable that we can ratify in a right moment.

II. PROPOSED SOLUTIONS

In accordance with this issue, hence, Italian Republic propose a solution called as PinTeRes (Protection,
Tangible, Responsive) Program which several steps will be taken, which are :

1. Protection and Support. Encourage member states through UNHCR to make a guideline to establish such
national body which we will call as IMO (Information Management Office) also with the help from FICSS (Field

1
Imran & Domician. 2018. Modern slavery policies in a conceptual perspective. International Journal of
Engineering and Management Sciences (IJEMS) Vol. 3. (2018). No. 4 DOI: 10.21791/IJEMS.2018.4.4. 30
2
Global Slavery Index. 2019. Executive Summary from Global Slavery Index. Retrieved from
https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/2019/findings/executive-summary/
3
Loc, cit.
4
European Parliament. 2018. Contemporary forms of slavery. European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human
Rights (DROI).
5
Global Slavery Index. N.d. Italy. Retrieved fromhttps://www.globalslaveryindex.org/2018/findings/country-
studies/italy/
Information Coordination and Support Section), to help all relevant actors and especially the Field Office of UNHCR
in each region, Special Rapporteur team of UNHRC or regional bodies such as but not limited to AICHR
(Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights) to determine what are the most urgent action to be taken and to
share relevant information regarding modern slavery. Social support such as counseling, mediation, family
reunification, advocacy and community outreach, legal assistance and protection, is needed to ensure the safety which
includes the right to participate in legal proceedings against their traffickers if just in case they are the victim of human
trafficking, to remain in the country during the proceedings, the right of refugees to receive protection from further
harm, to access effective remedies, and also it is part of the obligation of member states not to return victims when
they are at a serious risk of harm, including intimidation or retaliation.

2. Investigation Procedure. Encourage member states to cooperate with INGO or NGO such as ILO , UNODC ,
or IOM to systematically collect and/or publish data for a comparative purposes on child labour and human trafficking
to track down the roots of the problem with also the help of IMO and FICSS. And to establish a guideline in accordance
with the investigation help the law enforcement or security apparatus within the national or regional level to conduct
Reactive Investigation which will be victim-led information and field information that has already been gathered to
conduct such investigation and Proactive Investigation which will be an investigation with a collective measure, the
information that has already been gatherd, and to create a mapping which areas/actors that is really vulnerable in order
to significantly suppress the growth of modern slavery. This investigation should have been conducted by the national
or regional actors, in order to help UNHRC despite of its function that can conduct an independent investigation.

3. Recovery System. With the legal assistance, it is also needed for UNHRC and member states on ho we can
collaborate with such as but not limited to WHO with care management program that based on WHO’s Clinical Practice
Guidelines (CPG) which the treatment fee could be covered with Universal Health Coverage (UHC) for primary,
secondary, and tertiary treatment based on severity of trauma for the victim, and especially pschological treatment;
with UNICEF’s No Lost Generation Initiative, that promotes to strengthen national education systems, which the
education curriculum shall include enhancing the capability of adolescents and youth to be resilient to protect
themselves from harmful practices;

4. Labelling of Products. In regards of modern slavery by TNC or MNC Affixing a particular label to a product
that the product has been manufactured without force labour (which is a forms of slavery). For the scheme to work,
there must be significant awareness that the label means the product is made according to certain standards while
similar items that don't carry the presribed label may be made with forced labour. In labelling, there should be
collaborative mechanism among UNHRC, ILO and National government. The check and balance should be conducted
periodically by neutral experts that have license. A certain requirement to get the label will indirectly push companies
to have a zero tolerance towards forced labour.