The International Day for Abolition of Slavery is observed every year on December 2.

• The day remarks the adaptation of resolution ‘Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Prostitution of the Others’ by UN.
• As per the International Labour Organisation, more than 40 million people worldwide are victims of modern slavery and one in four victims of modern slavery are children.
• Modern slavery is an umbrella term covering practices such as forced labour, forced marriage, human trafficking and debt bondage.
• ILO has adopted a binding protocol designed to strengthen global efforts to eliminate forced labour, which entered into force in November 2016.