News on forced labour

40 million in modern slavery and 152 million in child labour around the world

19 September 2017

New data reveal that the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal Target 8.7, will not be achieved unless efforts to fight modern slavery and child labour are dramatically increased.
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Powerful global coalition to boost equal pay for women at work

18 September 2017

New initiative will support innovative and effective equal pay policies and practices around the globe.
Alliance 8.7 to present the latest global estimates of modern slavery and child labour

15 September 2017
Making Fair Recruitment a Reality!

11 September 2017

This video chronicles the ILO’s effort to establish a corridor to recruit fairly workers from Nepal to Jordan to work in the ready-made garment sector. It highlights the power of the various actors in a supply chain to make positive change when they work together to achieve a common objective that benefits each of them.

Wagner Moura meets victims of forced labour

23 August 2017

23 August marks International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery. Around the world, there are still 21 million people living in conditions of forced labour. Actor and ILO Goodwill Ambassador Wagner Moura recently met three of them from his home country of Brazil to learn about their experiences.

The horror of modern slavery on screen

28 July 2017

50 for Freedom advocate and actor, Joaquín Furriel, was special guest of the International Labour Organization at a screening in Geneva of the award-winning movie, ‘The Boss: Anatomy of a crime.’
Towards a future of work without child labour and forced labour in Europe and Central Asia

19 July 2017

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