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United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery

United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery

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Deadline: 1-Mar-24

The Secretariat of the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery (UNVFCFS) has launched the 2025 call for applications.

According to General Assembly resolution 46/122, grants from the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery (hereafter referred to as “the Fund”) shall be given to extend, through established channels of assistance, humanitarian, legal and financial aid to individuals whose human rights have been severely violated as a result of contemporary forms of slavery.

Contemporary forms of slavery which qualify for project grants include traditional slavery, serfdom, servitude, forced labour, debt bondage, the worst forms of child labour, forced and early marriage, the sale of wives and inherited widows, trafficking in persons and of human organs, sexual slavery, sale of children, commercial sexual exploitation of children and children in armed conflict.

Projects that address other violations of human rights that exhibit the primary characteristics of ownership, control and violent coercion may also qualify for project grants, subject to the availability of funding.

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For more information, visit Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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