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a problem or getting information. Organizations can be a
resource in the sense that they can provide technical inputs or
give credit, for example.
Sex
Sexual harassment
Trafficking in persons’
Youth
Worker
refers to universal biologically determined differences between
men and women. These characteristics are given at birth by
nature and are generally unchangeable.
means unwanted conduct of a sexual nature, or other conduct
based on sex, affecting the dignity of women and men at work.
This can include unwelcome physical, verbal or non-verbal
conduct (European Commission’s Council Resolution)
shall mean the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring
or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or
other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of
the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the
giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the
consent of a person, for the purpose of exploitation.
Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, 'the exploitation of the
prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation,
forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery,
servitude or the removal of organs (Palermo Protocol on
trafficking 2000)
are young persons between 15 and 24 years, who become
adults at 18 years when they can vote.
all those who work, both women and men. This includes wage
workers in formal enterprises, but also the self-employed,
casual and informal workers, the hidden, predominantly women
workers in the care economy or in the domestic scene,
irrespective of whether they are paid or unpaid.
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