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ILO publications

• Labour migration and the emergence of private employment agencies in Tajikistan: A review of current law and practice - [pdf 7970 KB]
  Joint publication of the International Labour Organization and the International Organisation for Migration. This study is the first in-depth analysis of the normative framework regulating PrEAs in Tajikistan. It also describes practical experiences of the industry including various abusive practices that require the attention of law makers. (Report)
• Preventing Forced Labour Exploitation and Promoting Good Labour Practices in the Russian Construction Industry - [pdf 3872 KB]
  Joint report: International Labour Organization and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. ... (Report)
• Executive Summary "Forced labour: Coercion and exploitation in the private economy" - [pdf 182 KB]
  This co-publication by the ILO and Lynne Rienner is based on more than six years of research and features case studies from Latin America, South Asia, Africa and Europe. (Book)
  • Forced labor: Coercion and exploitation in the private economy
• Fighting forced labour: the example of Brazil - [pdf 1824 KB]
  For some fifteen years, since a new inter-ministerial body was created in 1995 to coordinate action against forced labour, Brazil has been addressing the problem with vigour and determination. It has done so in many ways, involving different government agencies, employers’ and workers’ organizations, civil society, the media, academic organizations and others. (Report)

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External publications

• The Slave Next Door – Human trafficking and slavery in America today
  This book exposes the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States. (Book)
• Modern-Day Slavehouse - Article originally published in the February 2008 edition of Rolling Stone Brazil magazine
  Brazilian employers using slave labor find support in the Congress to have their names off the so-called “Dirty List”. (Article)
• “I Forzati del Mare” (The Forced labourers of the sea), Valter Zanin (In Italian only)
  This book is about forced labour in maritime carg osector and about the difficulties to estimate the numbers of active seafarers within the complex patterns if multinational merchant crews in the XX and XXI centuries. The author tries to calculate the minimum estimate of seafarers compelled in various ways to work, according (and sometimes discussing) the ILO definition of forced labour. The blacklisting in the shipping sector is a form of forcing workers to accept degrading jobs and not only an attack to freedom of association. He explains that the problem of forced labour is not so easily related to the flagging out and the expansion of the flags of convenience. (Book)
• “COLLATERAL DAMAGE - The Impact of Anti-Trafficking Measures on Human Rights around the World”, Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women GAATW
  This anthology reviews the experience of eight countries (Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, India, Nigeria, Thailand, UK and USA) and attempts to assess what the impact of anti-trafficking measures have been, specifically on people’s human rights. Each chapter mentions numerous examples of laws or government policies which have negative consequences for some of the very people they are intended to benefit, focusing on the impact of three different types of measure: policies to assist and protect trafficked persons provided they cooperate with law enforcement officials; anti-trafficking measures affecting migrants and others; and thirdly, the misuse of the concept of ‘trafficking’ to further the political agendas of governments. (Report)

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