General forced labour

2008 

• 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.
• Handbook for employers and business – Booklet 2 Employers' Frequently Asked Questions - [pdf 741 KB]
  A quick reference guide for managers, human resource personnel and others, that answers FAQs from employers. The guide addresses topics such as prison labour, forced overtime and debt bondage in an easy-to-use format.
• Handbook for employers and business – Booklet 3 Guiding Principles to Combat Forced Labour - [pdf 103 KB]
  A set of principles based on ILO standards and jurisprudence to guide business action against forced labour and trafficking.
• Handbook for employers and business – Booklet 4 A Checklist and Guidance for Assessing Compliance - [pdf 294 KB]
  A checklist designed for social auditors and other practitioners for use in enterprise-level assessments. The tool includes questions as well as policy guidance and technical advice on how to conduct assessments.
• Handbook for employers and business – Booklet 5 A Guide for Taking Action - [pdf 185 KB]
  Presents some of the key measures that companies and employers' organisations can take to address forced labour at enterprise, national and industry levels, and in global supply chains.
• Handbook for employers and business – Booklet 6 Tips for Taking Action - [pdf 116 KB]
  A set of practical reference guides that identify some of the concrete measures and benefits that companies can take to address forced labour and trafficking.
• Handbook for employers and business – Booklet 7 Case Studies - [pdf 347 KB]
  Selected examples of company and industry action that indicate the variety of approaches business actors can take in addressing forced labour at the workplace and in supply chains.

2007 

• Guide to Private Employment Agencies: Regulation, Monitoring and Enforcement - [pdf 635 KB]
  This Guide provides guidance to national legislators in drafting legal frameworks in line with ILO Convention No. 181 and Recommendation No. 188. It is rich in many examples of country legislation from both developed and developing countries.
• General Survey concerning the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), and the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105)
  The Survey by the Committee of Experts of the national legislation and practice on forced labour. In spite of the universal condemnation of forced labour and the adoption of constitutional and legislative provisions abolishing it, forced or compulsory labour practices unfortunately continue to exist and many people around the world are still subjected to it.
• Directions for national and international data collection on Forced Labour - [pdf 229 KB]
  This paper provides some ideas and directions as to how the existing gaps in our understanding of the quantitative dimensions of forced labour could be reduced.
• Methodologies for global and national estimation of human trafficking victims: current and future approaches - [pdf 124 KB]
  This paper provides a detailed comparison of the methodologies used by the ILO and the US government for computing global estimates, discussing strengths and weaknesses of both methods.

2006 

• Globalization and the illicit market for human trafficking: an empirical analysis of supply and demand - [pdf 241 KB]
  This working paper studies the determinants of trafficking for forced sexual exploitation, at a cross-country econometric analysis.
• Legal aspects of trafficking for forced labour purposes in Europe - [pdf 625 KB]
  With numerous case examples of law and judicial practice from Europe, and some other countries, Rohit Malpani painstakingly reviews the present gaps in identification and prosecution of trafficking for forced labour cases, as well as deficiencies in approaches to prevention and to compensation for the abuses suffered by the victims of trafficking.
• 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.
• Training materials for a Global Alliance against Forced Labour - [pdf 3070 KB]
  These training materials have been designed to provide training tools on the subject of forced labour. They constitute a tool box from which selections can be made to suit the training need.

2005 

• Trafficking for labour and sexual exploitation in Germany - [pdf 270 KB]
  Germany is an important destination contry for migrant workers from all over the world. Many of them work on the basis of mutually beneficial agreements made with their employers, but many are forced into submission by deception, threats, abuse, fraud and coercion.
• Forced labour in the Russian Federation today: irregular migration and trafficking in human beings - [pdf 1309 KB]
  Throughout the world, more and more attention is given to the problem of trafficking in human beings. The trade in human beings and the use of slave labour are serious and burning issues which are relevant for Russia at present.
• 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.
• Human trafficking and forced labour exploitation - guidance for legislation and law enforcement - [pdf 383 KB]
  This guide has been designed to provide lawmakers and law enforcement authorities with practical aid to understand and implement international standards on human trafficking and to take action accordingly.