Desarrollo legislativo y jurisprudencial del trabajo forzoso en Colombia

Abstract

The following work has as primary objective, to inform about the main characteristics and normativity that regulate inside our country and issue of deep and tremendous magnitude like the Forced Labor is; first of all, there will be a brief contextualization about the International Labor Law, it’s normative bases, structure and how this has been dealing with every topic related to the Forced Labor. Therefore, there will be explained what kind of measures Colombia has developed to fight against one of the biggest and most relevant problems for both international and domestic law in the last years. It is necessary to let our academic community know about the importance of the Labor Law nowadays because of the problems and issues our system continues to handle every day. The present document is designed also to make people aware about the problematic called Forced Labor because it is a conflict that keeps growing and going further deep inside our society, making it one of the biggest and hardest legal problems to face both for domestic and international law at least in the last forty years.