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.
Chinese migrants and Forced Labour in Europe - [pdf 138 KB] This working paper, by Chinese lawyer Gao Yun, is the result mainly of a desk review drawing on existing literature about Chinese migration to Europe, and of analysis of current Chinese law on trafficking. (Available in French, English and Chinese)
Human Trafficking in Europe: an Economic Perspective - [pdf 375 KB] This paper is a broad mapping survey, placing the concerns of trafficking within broader migration analysis (including the role of irregular migration). It comments on the financial flows involved in trafficking, and on the different patterns of financing trafficking services. ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Stopping Forced Labour - [pdf 892 KB] Forced Labour is universally condemned. Yet the elimination of its
numerous forms — old and new, ranging from slavery and debt bondage to
trafficking in human beings — remains one of the most complex challenges
facing local communities, national governments, employers’ and workers’
organizations and the international community. ...