Links

A

1. Antislavery International

   Anti-Slavery International, founded in 1839, is the world's oldest international human rights organisation and the only charity in the United Kingdom to work exclusively against slavery and related abuses.

B

1. Biofuel Watch Center (Repórter Brasil)

   BWC aims to research, analyze and disseminate the social, environmental aspects and impacts on land, labor and traditional communities, related to crops used as raw material to the production of agrofuels in Brazil (sugarcane, soy, palms, corn, cotton seed, castor bean and jatropha)

2. Blue Heart Campaign against human trafficking

   Human trafficking is a global problem and no country is immune. To rally world public opinion against human trafficking, UNODC has launched the Blue Heart Campaign.

3. Brazil - National Agreement to Eradicate Slave Labour

   All signatories agree to increase efforts aiming at dignifying and modernizing all labour relations in their productive chain and to define commercial restriction to companies and/or identified people in the productive chain that make use of degrading labour conditions coupled with practices that are considered slavery

4. Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

   The website contains a wide range of news and reports about companies’ human rights impacts worldwide – positive and negative- published by NGOs, business, UN, ILO & other IO, governments & courts, policy experts & academics, journalists,...

5. Business for Social Responsability

   Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) provides socially responsible business solutions to many of the world’s leading corporations. They provide one page dedicated to forced labour.

C

1. Coalition against Trafficking in Women

   The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) is a non-governmental organization that internationally combats sexual exploitation in all its forms, focusing on human trafficking, especially sex trafficking of women and girls.

2. Coalition of Immokalee Workers

   The CIW's Anti-Slavery Campaign is a worker-based approach to eliminating modern-day slavery in the agricultural industry. The CIW helps fight this crime by uncovering, investigating, and assisting in the federal prosecution of slavery rings preying on hundreds of farmworkers.

3. Council of Europe - Action against Trafficking in Human Beings

   Since the late 1980s, the Council of Europe has adopted a variety of initiatives in the field of trafficking in human beings. Its Campaign "Not for sale" aims to raise awareness, among governments, parliamentarians, local and regional authorities, NGOs and civil society, of the extent of the problem of trafficking in human beings in Europe today. It highlights the different measures which can be taken to prevent this new form of slavery, as well as measures to protect the human rights of victims and to prosecute the traffickers.

4. Council of the Baltic States Task Force against Trafficking / in Human Beings

   The overall objective of the Task force is to counteract trafficking in human beings in the Baltic Sea Region through preventive and protective activities, focusing on persons over the age of 18.

D

1. DFID - UK Department for International Development

   This webpage provides information on contemporary slavery, including a brochure called "Breaking the chains: Eliminating slavery, ending poverty".

E

1. Ergon

   Ergon is an independent network of labour rights, human rights and governance experts. They publish a newsletter "Focus on Labour" and other materials on labour standards.

2. Ethical Trading Initiative

   ETI is an alliance of companies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and trade union organisations who aim to promote and improve the implementation of corporate codes of practice which cover supply chain working conditions. Their ultimate goal is to ensure that the working conditions of workers producing for the UK market meet or exceed international labour standards.

3. European Union National Rapporteurs on Trafficking in Human beings (THB)

   This website gathers information on existing mechanisms in European Union member states of national rapporteurs on trafficking in human beings. It was prepared for the conference “Joint Analysis, Joint Action - Conference of EU National Rapporteurs on THB“, under the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU, in cooperation with the European Commission and the OSCE.

G

1. Georgia: Informed migration website

   Website run by IOM, in close cooperation with ILO, ICMPD and OSCE, to promote safe migration and prevent trafficking

H

1. Hope is worth much more than money

I

1. ILO Beijing - Forced labour China

   Website of the ILO Project on Forced Labour and Discrimination in China

2. ILO Brazil - Combating Forced labour

   Website of the ILO Technical Cooperation Project "Fighting Forced Labour in Brazil"

3. ILO Mekong Sub-regional Project to Combat trafficking in Children and Women

   Website of the ILO Project to Combat trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub region (GMS). One section is dedicated to their Proven Practices and Tools.

4. International Council on Human Rights Policy

   The Council was established in Geneva in 1998 to conduct applied research into problems and dilemmas that face organisations working in the field of human rights.