Core support for SAP-FL - Ireland January 2005 - July 2011 - Provides core support to the Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour
Promoting fundamental principles and rights at work and social dialogue January 2008 - January 2011 - The project is designed to promote appropriate legal environment and a culture of consultation and dialogue based on the Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work embodied in the ILO Declaration of 1998.
2010
Eliminating Forced Labour and Trafficking in Jordan February 2009 - August 2010 - The project seeks to strengthen government law enforcement capacity to identify, investigate and prosecute offences for forced labour and human trafficking; and support the establishment of an efficient and regulated recruitment mechanism.
Forced Labour and Trafficking In Jordan - A Pilot Programme on the Qualified Industrial Zones April 2007 - March 2009 - The project seeks to improve the law enforcement capacity of the government against trafficking for labour exploitation, with a particular focus on the export-oriented factories in Jordan’s Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZ), where there have been recent reports of severe labour exploitation which in the worst cases could amount to criminal trafficking.
Economic and social empowerment of returned victims of trafficking in Thailand and the Philippines May 2006 - April 2009 - In Southeast Asia, Thailand and the Philippines are among the countries facing serious problems of trafficking in persons. In both countries, many of the women migrating have been recruited not knowing the living and working conditions they would need to endure nor the extent of debt that they would have to bear. ...
Capacity building for migration management in China October 2007 - March 2009 - This project aims to stem illegal Chinese migration to the European Union, mainly by providing assistance to Chinese authorities and other pertinent agencies.
2008
Combating inequalities and discrimination in the world of work - [pdf 28 KB] August 2006 - December 2008 - Discrimination in employment and occupation exists everywhere in the world. Its manifestations and intensity may vary from country to country and over time, but its consequences are the same: a waste of human talents, a violation of rights, efficiency, productivity and income losses, social fragmentation and, in some instances, political destabilization.
Forced labour, discrimination and poverty reduction among indigenous peoples in Bolivia, Peru and Paraguay March 2006 - September 2008 - Recent ILO research indicates that forced labour affects at least 1.3 million people in Latin America. In-depth field research in the rural areas of Bolivia, Paraguay and Peru, has confirmed earlier perceptions that indigenous people are particularly vulnerable to a form of forced labour called debt bondage.