FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM 44 viii) Slavery Convention, 1926. The 1926 Slavery Convention was the first international legal instrument to refer to the undefined practices of forced and compulsory labour. State Parties to the Convention undertook to adopt all necessary measures to prevent compulsory or forced labour from developing into condition analogous to slavery. Under the Slavery Convention81, States Parties undertake to prevent and suppress the slave trade and to bring about, progressively and as soon as possible, the complete abolition of slavery in all its forms, including slavery-like practices including debt-bondage, serfdom, forced marriage and sale/transfer of children for labour exploitation. The Convention has no monitoring committee. ix) Convention on Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and their Families, 1990 The Migrant Workers 82 Convention sets out comprehensive protection standards. The Convention applies to both documented (legal) and undocumented (illegal or irregular) migrant workers. It stipulates that migrant workers must not be held in slavery or servitude and that forced labour must not be demanded of them. States Parties must provide for sanctions against persons or groups. The entry into force of the new Convention on 1 July 2003 marks advancement on the basic principles Convention on Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and their Families, 1990. • Prohibits torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. (Article 10) • Prohibits slavery, servitude, forced or compulsory labour. (Article 11) • Right to liberty and security or person. (Article 16(1)) • Provides effective protection by the state against violence, physical injury, threat and intimidation, whether by public officials or by private individuals, groups or institutions. (Article 16(2)) 81 Slavery Convention, 212 U.N.T.S. 17, entered into force Mar. 9, 1927, amended Convention entered into force Jul. 7, 1955. 82 International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, 30 ILM 1517, adopted by General Assembly Resolution 45/158 of 18 December 1990 entered into force on 1 July 2003.