Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2025, published 114th ILC session (2026)

Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) - Grenada (Ratification: 2003)

The Committee notes the observations of the Grenada Employers Federation (GEF) and the Grenada Trade Unions Council (GTUC), communicated with the Government’s report.

Article 3 of the Convention. Worst forms of child labour. Clause (a). All forms of slavery or practices similar to slavery. Sale and trafficking of children. Following its previous comments, the Committee notes with satisfaction the adoption of the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons Act No. 34 of 2014 (Prevention Act). The Committee observes that the Prevention Act aims to combat the trafficking of persons within and across the borders of Grenada. It further notes that Part I of the Prevention Act: (1) defines exploitation as including all forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour, slavery, and servitude; (2) defines sexual exploitation as compelling a person into prostitution, the production of child pornography or other pornographic material, or any other sexual activity through threats, coercion, abduction, drug use, force, abuse of authority, or fraud; (3) defines forced labour as labour or services obtained or maintained through threats, force, physical restraints, intimidation, or coercion; and (4) defines trafficking in persons as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring, or receipt of a person through coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or vulnerability, or payments or benefits to gain control over another person for the purpose of exploitation.

The Committee further notes that Part III of the Prevention Act criminalizes trafficking in persons. In addition, section 10 imposes harsher penalties if the victim is a child (defined as a person under the age of 18 in section 2 of the Prevention Act), with a conviction for child trafficking carrying a fine of up to 1 million dollars, imprisonment for up to 25 years, or both. It also notes that section 10(2) and (3) apply the same penalties to those who sexually exploit a trafficked child or restrict or detain a child for such sexual purposes. The Committee welcomes the enactment of the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons Act and requests the Government to provide information concerning its application in practice, including statistics on the number and nature of offences reported, prosecutions, convictions, and penal sanctions imposed for offences related to the trafficking of children under section 10 of the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons Act.

The Committee is also raising other matters in a request addressed directly to the Government.