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As a United Nations specialized
agency, and a leader in the fight
against the worst forms of child labour
and exploitation, the ILO is playing
a major role in the fight against
human trafficking.
In 2003, following a three-year pilot
phase, and through the work of the
International Programme on the Elimination
of Child Labour (IPEC), the ILO launched
phase II of a five-year project to
prevent trafficking in children and
women in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region
(GMS).
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The Mekong Sub-Regional Project to Combat
Trafficking in Children and Women (TICW) works
with, and alongside, other UN Agencies, Save
the Children UK, other NGOs, Governments,
employers’ and workers’ groups, to help equip
Governments and civil society to deal with
migration, the growing threat of human trafficking
and resulting exploitative labour.
Much of the work is carried out at source
– in villages and rural areas where ill-prepared,
uninformed migration begins, and at destination
– the towns and cities where most of the
exploitation takes place.
From small villages in Cambodia, China’s
Yunnan Province, Lao PDR and Viet Nam, to
major urban centres like Bangkok, Thailand,
the project is mobilizing communities. It
is working with and through children to
improve their quality of life.
Photo: ILO/DCOMM
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