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ILO publications

• The cost of coercion - [pdf 1074 KB]
  Forced labour is the antithesis of decent work. The least protected persons, including women and youth, indigenous peoples, and migrant workers, are particularly vulnerable. Modern forced labour can be eradicated with a sustained commitment and resources. (Report)
• Forced Labour and Human Trafficking: Casebook of Court Decisions - [pdf 839 KB]
  This training manual for judges, prosecutors and legal practitioners (Book)
• Forced labour and human trafficking: Guidelines for labour officers in Zambia - [pdf 418 KB]
  To win the war on forced labour, labour inspectors and other law enforcement officers need the right tools. They need to have a stronger grasp of the concepts, and indicators of possible forced labour situations. This is the role that these guidelines will play. (Book)
• Forced labour and human trafficking: A toolkit for trade unions in Zambia - [pdf 1358 KB]
  This toolkit was developed in collaboration with trade unions in Zambia. It aims to provide practical guidance and suggestions that will allow trade union officers and members to recognize forced labour and to take action to prevent it and assist its victims. (Book)

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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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