“50 for Freedom” campaign.

 

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A young visitor signs a panel at Geneva’s Palais des Nations to support the “50 for Freedom” campaign, which urges global ratification of the ILO’s Protocol on Forced Labour to help end modern slavery affecting 21 million people worldwide.

Location: Palais des Nations, Av. de la Paix 8-14, 1211 Genève, Switzerland

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