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  1. Caught at Sea - Forced Labour and Trafficking in Fisheries

    31 May 2013

    Recent in-depth studies have described and analysed severe cases of forced labour and human trafficking in the fisheries sector. Whereas the fisheries sector counts among the most important economic sectors providing food security and employment worldwide, these studies reveal that, on board fishing vessels, fishers - many of them migrant workers - are subjected to extreme forms of human rights abuses, including forced labour and human trafficking. This report examines recent literature on forced labour and human trafficking in the fisheries sector, with the focus on fishing vessels engaged in commercial marine fisheries. The report considers institutional and legal frameworks as well as multistakeholder initiatives that have the potential to impact fishers’ safety and working conditions.

  2. ILO indicators of Forced Labour

    01 October 2012

    This booklet presents an introduction to the ILO Indicators of Forced Labour. These indicators are intended to help “front-line” criminal law enforcement officials, labour inspectors, trade union officers, NGO workers and others to identify persons who are possibly trapped in a forced labour situation, and who may require urgent assistance. The indicators represent the most common signs or “clues” that point to the possible existence of a forced labour case.

  3. Stopping forced labour and slavery-like practices - The ILO strategy

    18 September 2012

    This document presents the ILO strategy to combat forced labour for 2012-2015 and provides details about the 3 priority areas for the period, namely research and knowledge management, elimination of forced labour from global value chains, and implementation of country-based interventions.

  4. Hard to see, harder to count - Survey guidelines to estimate forced labour of adults and children

    01 June 2012

    These guidelines share the experience gained and lessons learned by the ILO between 2008 and 2010 through quantitative surveys of forced labour and human trafficking undertaken at country level. They aim to provide comprehensive information and tools to enable national statistical offices and research institutes to undertake national surveys on forced labour of adults and/or children.

  5. Summary of the ILO 2012 Global Estimate of Forced Labour

    01 June 2012

    Using a new and improved statistical methodology, the ILO estimates that 20.9 million people are victims of forced labour globally, trapped in jobs into which they were coerced or deceived and which they cannot leave.

  6. A Global Alliance against Forced Labour and Trafficking in persons

    15 May 2012

    Key Achievements of the ILO's Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour 2001-2011

  7. Joint UN Commentary on the EU Directive on human trafficking – A Human Rights-Based Approach

    07 March 2012

    “Prevent. Combat. Protect” is the joint UNHCR, OHCHR, UNICEF, UNODC, ILO and UN Women commentary on selected articles of the EU Directive on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting victims. It promotes a human rights-based approach, provides guidance to policy-makers and legislators in EU Member States on key articles of the Directive, and makes recommendations for the transposition and implementation of the Directive.

  8. SAP-FL Newsletter : Issue 3 - 2013

    31 January 2012

    Newsletter prepared by the ILO Special Action Programme to combat forced labour. Third issue 2013

  9. Forced labour in Northern Ireland: exploiting vulnerability, Joseph Rowntree Foundation

    14 June 2011

    This report explores the extent of forced labour among new migrants to Northern Ireland and identified a number of problems of forced labour in the mushroom farming, fishing and catering industries as well as more isolated problems in a variety of other casual work environments. The exploitation through forced labour that was encountered was not particularly associated with human trafficking. Rather people’s vulnerability to exploitation through forced labour was more likely to be associated with factors such as an individual’s legal status, their English language skills, a lack of access to advice and information, and an absence of appropriate community-based support networksThe report suggests a number of actions that could improve identification of cases of forced labour and responses to the problem.

  10. A Trade Union Perspective on Combating Trafficking and Forced Labour in Europe, by Jeroen Beirnaert

    27 May 2011

    The paper is part of the book published by the University of Tilburg "Combating Trafficking in Human Beings for Labour Exploitation", Conny Rijken (ed.), 2011, Wolf Legal Publishers

  11. The good practices of labour inspection in Brazil: the eradication of labour analogous to slavery

    15 April 2011

    This publication was produced under the framework of technical cooperation undertaken between the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Secretariat of Labour Inspection (SIT). This partnership is embodied in the collection “The Good Practices of Labour Inspection in Brazil,” comprised of four publications on the labour inspection system in Brazil and the Brazilian labour inspection experiences in the following areas: eradication of child labour; combating forced labour; and the maritime sector. The eradication of labour analogous to slavery is today one of the main objectives of the Brazilian agenda for the promotion of human rights. This document presents a synthesis of labour inspection actions of the Ministry of Labour and Employment (MTE), in cooperation with governmental partners, employer associations, workers’ unions and civil society organizations in the fi ght against this extreme form of labour exploitation.

  12. Human Trafficking and Business: An eLearning course on how to prevent and combat human trafficking

    15 February 2011

    The United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT) and the End Human Trafficking Now! Campaign (EHTN!) have developed an eLearning course which is a modular training programme for business leaders, managers and employees of business companies.

  13. SAP-FL Newsletter: Issue 2 - 2011

    15 February 2011

    Newsletter prepared by the ILO Special Action Programme to combat forced labour. Second issue 2011

  14. Evaluation of the Special Action Programme to combat Forced Labour (SAP-FL) 2006-09

    10 January 2011

    Executive summary of the independent evaluation carried out in 2010

  15. Rights on the Line - Human Rights Watch

    11 December 2010

    HRW documented labour exploitation and barriers to redress for migrants in agriculture, domestic work, and construction in Indonesia, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States. Immigration sponsorship systems in many countries give employers immense control over workers and lead to migrants being trapped in abusive situations or unable to pursue redress through the justice system.

  16. The International Law of Human Trafficking

    15 November 2010

    This book presents the first-ever comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the international law of human trafficking. Anne T. Gallagher calls on her direct experience working within the United Nations to chart the development of new international laws on this issue. She links these rules to the international law of state responsibility as well as key norms of international human rights law, transnational criminal law, refugee law, and international criminal law, in the process identifying and explaining the major legal obligations of states with respect to preventing trafficking, protecting and supporting victims, and prosecuting perpetrators.

  17. Report from the European Commission on the residence permit issued to victims of trafficking in human beings

    15 October 2010

    Study on the implementation of the Directive 2004/81/EC, adopted in 2004, on the residence permit issued to third-country nationals who are victims of trafficking in human beings or who have been the subject of an action to facilitate illegal immigration, who cooperate with the competent authorities

  18. Study on forced labour in Poland

    01 October 2010

    The study was produced and published in the framework of the FREED project “Transnational Multi-Stakeholder Action to combat trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labour exploitation: Identification and protection of victims". (Report in Polish)

  19. Code of Conduct Applied to Vietnamese enterprises sending workers for overseas employment

    01 October 2010

    This Code of Conduct, prepared by the Vietnam Association of Manpower supply, presents the fundamental principles which Vietnamese enterprises recruiting workers for overseas employment should comply with. It is based on Vietnam legislation, ILO Conventions and Recommendations and other relevant international instruments and on the actual context of Vietnam.

  20. Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences - Mission to Brazil

    30 August 2010

    The Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences, Gulnara Shahinian, conducted an official mission to Brazil from 17 to 28 May 2010. She noted the positive and substantial role that ILO has played in working with all stakeholders in Brazil to combat slave labour. She calls on the international community to continue to support its work, and that of notable and experienced non-government organizations in Brazil.
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