Handbook for employers and business – Booklet 1 Introduction and Overview - [pdf 270 KB] This new handbook provides guidance material and tools for employers and business. Part 1 presents information about relevant international standards, recent figures and data, and forms of forced labour in the global economy alongside excerpts of international Conventions and Protocols.
Forced labour and human trafficking: handbook for labour inspectors - [pdf 2269 KB] The handbook is a tool for training. It seeks both to inform labour inspectors of the facts and trends of modern forced labour and the challenges before them, and to promote discussion as to how labour inspectorates worldwide could be harnessed more effectively to global efforts against forced labour and trafficking.
ILO action against trafficking in human beings - [pdf 1279 KB] In its many projects and advocacy activities, the ILO addresses trafficking from a labour market perspective. It thereby seeks to eliminate the root causes, such as poverty, lack of employment and inefficient labour migration systems. ILO led responses involve labour
market institutions, such as public employment services, labour inspectors and labour ministries. ...
Trafficking for forced labour – how to monitor the recruitment of migrant workers - [pdf 598 KB] This training manual aims to raise awareness amongst labour inspectors, police, government officials, employers’ organizations, trade unions, and others, on the issues of trafficking, forced labour and job placement systems. More specifically, it focuses on the recruitment of migrant workers into highly exploitative situations that could amount to forced labour.
ILO Minimum Estimate of Forced Labour in the World - [pdf 658 KB] The present technical document provides a detailed account of the methodology used in the estimate of forced labour in the world, published in the 2005 Global Report called "A Global Alliance against Forced Labour".
Forced Labour and Human trafficking: Estimating the Profits - [pdf 362 KB] As part of SAP-FL research on the quantitative and economic dimensions of forced labour and human trafficking, this Paper aims to estimate the magnitude of global profits that are being realized through the exploitation of forced labourers.
Forced Labour: Definition, Indicators and Measurement - [pdf 344 KB] This paper represents a first step to estimate the global magnitude of forced labour. It describes the various forms of forced labour in existence, reviews available indicators of forced labour, summarises and discusses some methods that have been used for measurement, and provides some guidance for future work on the subject.