Editing Debt bondage (section)

=== Definition ===
Though the [[Forced Labour Convention]] of 1930 by the [[International Labour Organization]], which included 187 parties, sought to bring organised attention to eradicating [[slavery]] through forms of [[forced labor]], formal opposition to debt bondage in particular came at the [[Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery]] in 1956.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> The convention in 1956<ref name=":0" /> defined debt bondage under Article 1, section (a):

<blockquote>Debt bondage, that is to say, the status or condition arising from a pledge by a debtor of his personal services or of those of a person under his control as security for a debt if the value of those services as reasonably assessed is not applied towards the liquidation of the debt or the length and nature of those services are not respectively limited and defined;<ref name=":0" /></blockquote>

When a pledge to provide services to pay off debt is made by an individual, the employer often illegally inflates interest rates at an unreasonable amount, making it impossible for the individual to leave bonded labour.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last1=von Lilienfeld-Toal|first1=Ulf|last2=Mookherjee|first2=Dilip|date=1 August 2010|title=The Political Economy of Debt Bondage|journal=American Economic Journal: Microeconomics|publisher=American Economic Association|volume=2|issue=3}}</ref> When the bonded labourer dies, debts are often passed on to children.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Androff|first=D.K.|title=The problem of contemporary slavery: An international human rights challenge for social work|journal=International Social Work|publisher=Social Sciences Index|volume=54|issue=2}}</ref>