Slavery and debt bondage

2008 

• Investigating forced labour and trafficking: Do they exist in Zambia? - [pdf 7229 KB]
  This research project was undertaken in response to an approach by the Zambian Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS) to the International Labour Office (ILO) to request assistance to look into the possible existence of forced labour practices in Zambia. ...

2006 

• Review of legislation and policies in Nigeria on Human Trafficking and Forced Labour - [pdf 591 KB]
  An essential part of the Action Programme against Trafficking and Forced Labour in West Africa (PATWA) is to advocate for a legislative and policy framework in Nigeria and Ghana that enables the government and other national stakeholders to effectively combat trafficking in men, women and children for purposes of labour or sexual exploitation.

2005 

• Bonded Labour in India: its Incidence and Pattern - [pdf 223 KB]
  Extensive research from the recent literature on bonded labour, compiling evidence from academic sources, the Government of India, the National Human Rights Commission, other NGOs and press reports.
• Forced Labour In Peru
  (Only available in Spanish) Este estudio presenta los resultados de una investigación, encargada por un antropólogo y un científico social, sobre la existencia del trabajo forzoso en Perú.
• Bonded labour in Paraguay
  (Only available in Spanish) A través del presente informe, la OIT pretende dar respuesta a la petición del Gobierno de Paraguay de establecer de manera objetiva los hechos relativos al trabajo forzoso y la discriminación que sufren los indígenas en el Chaco paraguayo. Este tipo de trabajo forzoso, es a menudo una manifestación de un patrón más amplio de discriminación hacia los indígenas. ...
• Bonded labour in Bolivia
  (Only available in Spanish) Este estudio presenta los resultados de una investigación en Bolivia, encargada por un antropólogo y un científico social, sobre el trabajo forzoso en la zafra de azúcar en Santa Cruz, la castaña en el norte amazónico boliviano y las comunidades cautivas del Chaco.

2004 

• Bonded Labour in agriculture: a rapid assessment in Sindh and Balochistan, Pakistan - [pdf 712 KB]
  This Working Paper is one of a series of Rapid Assessments of bonded labour in Pakistan, each of which examines a different economic sector. The aim of these studies is to inform the implementation of the Government of Pakistan’s National Policy and Plan of Action for the Abolition of Bonded Labour, adopted in 2001. ...
• Bonded Labour in agriculture: a rapid assessment in Punjab and North West frontier province, Pakistan - [pdf 611 KB]
  This Working Paper is one of a series of Rapid Assessments of bonded labour in Pakistan, each of which examines a different economic sector. Dr G. M. Arif, of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) in Islamabad, is the author of this paper on bonded labour in the agriculture sector in Punjab and North West Frontier Province.
• Unfree labour in Pakistan: work, debt and bondage in brick kilns - [pdf 497 KB]
  This paper on bonded labour in Pakistan’s brick sector was prepared by a team of researchers / activists from the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) in Karachi.
• A rapid assessment of bonded labour in the carpet industry of Pakistan - [pdf 393 KB]
  This paper , written by Dr Zafar Mueen Nasir, of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics in Islamabad, deals with on bonded labour in Pakistan’s carpet-weaving sector.
• A rapid assessment of bonded labour in domestic work and begging in Pakistan - [pdf 534 KB]
  This paper examines labour arrangements and bonded labour in domestic work and begging. The research and analysis was undertaken by a team of researchers from the Collective for Social Science Research in Karachi. The same team also investigated domestic work and begging, the results of which are reported in another Working Paper.
• A rapid assessment of bonded labour in hazardous industries in Pakistan: glass bangle-making, tanneries and construction - [pdf 583 KB]
  This paper examines labour arrangements and bonded labour in three hazardous industrial sectors in Pakistan: construction, glass bangle-making and tanneries. The research and analysis was undertaken by a team of researchers from the Collective for Social Science Research in Karachi. ...
• A Rapid Assessment of Bonded Labour in Pakistan's Mining Sector - [pdf 914 KB]
  This paper, written by Mr Ahmad Salim, of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in Islamabad, deals with bonded labour in Pakistan’s mining sector.

2001 

• Bonded labour in Pakistan - [pdf 301 KB]
  This paper, based upon interviews with Government and non-governmental sources in Pakistan, as well as a survey of several thousand sharecropping tenant families in rural Sindh, was written as background material for the first ILO Global Report under the Declaration Follow-Up on the subject of Forced Labour.