FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM but a limited range of circumstances and imposes a duty on States Parties to suppress the use of such practices within the shortest possible period87 as well as to prosecute violations88. 46 • Officials shall not constrain any person to work for private individuals, companies or associations. (Article 6) The monitoring body of all ILO Conventions is the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations. xi) ILO Convention No. 105 on Abolition of Forced Labour, 1957. The Convention89 on Abolition of Forced Labour, 1957 suppresses all forms of forced labour as a means of racial, social national or religious discrimination. It calls for effective measures to secure the immediate and complete abolition of forced labour. State Parties are held accountable for the actions of corporations and private persons. The Convention further defines “debt bondage” as “the status or condition arising from a pledge by a debtor of his personal services or those of a person under his control as security for a debt, if the value of those services as reasonably assessed is not applied towards the liquidation of the debt or the length and nature of those services are not respectively limited or defined”90 and also defines victim of debt bondage as a “person of servile status”91 xii) ILO Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999. The Convention 92 acknowledges that the effective elimination of the worst forms of child labour, which includes child prostitution, and all forms of forced 87 88 89 90 ILO Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999. • Emphasizes prohibition and elimination of worst forms of child labour.(Article 1) • Worst forms of child labour includes all forms of slavery or ILO Convention No. 29 concerning forced or compulsory labour (1930), Article 1.1. ILO Convention No. 29 concerning forced or compulsory labour (1970), Article 25. Convention (No 105) concerning the Abolition of Forced Labour, adopted on Jun. 25, 1957 by the General Conference of the International Labour Organisation, entered into force Jan. 17, 1959. Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices similar to Slavery, Article. 1(a). 91 Ibid, Article. 7(6). 92 Convention (No 182) concerning the Worst Forms of Child Labour, adopted on Jun. 17, 1999, by the General Conference of the International Labour Organisation.