Article 4 - Prohibition of slavery and forced labour

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A.S. v. Latvia, no. 9327/23

03/09/26

Alleged failure by the respondent State to fulfil its positive obligations in response to the applicant’s allegations that she had been subjected to servitude or forced labour while working on a dairy farm.
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Petrov v. the Republic of Moldova, no. 38066/18

05/03/26

Restrictions, humiliation and forced labour suffered by the applicant in prison at the hands of his fellow inmates due to his low-ranking “outcast” status within the informal prison hierarchy, and the authorities’ failure to protect him.
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I.C. v. the Republic of Moldova, no. 36436/22

27/02/25

Alleged failure of the domestic authorities to protect the applicant, a woman with intellectual disabilities, from trafficking and servitude after her removal from State care and placement with a family where she was forced to work without pay.
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