News

November 2009 

• ILO-Nottingham workshop raises urgent Chinese migrant labour issues
  04 November 2009 - Human trafficking, the exploitation of Chinese migrants in the UK and the impact of economic recession on Chinese migrant workers were among issues hotly debated by more than 70 people at a conference organised by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and The University of Nottingham.

October 2009 

• Pakistan: ILO-Ministry of Labour workshop stresses the role of Parliamentarian in the eradication of bonded labour
  23 October 2009 - Federal Minister of Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira said Friday that government was committed to eradicate bonded labour from the country with support of all stakeholders. He was participating in a workshop on “Role of parliamentarian” organized by ILO and Ministry of Labour.
• World Day for Decent Work
  07 October 2009 - As every person should be able to have a job that enables them to live a good life in which their basic needs are met, decent work is the focus for World day for Decent Work (WDDW). This is an opportunity for trade unions and organisations to join a broad global mobilisation involving a large number of people and a wide range of activities.

September 2009 

• Launch of the EU Funded Joint Programme on Human Trafficking in Zambia
  28 September 2009 - On 28th September 2009, Lameck Mangani, Home affairs Minister, launched the EU funded UN Joint Programme on Human Trafficking, together with Gerry Finnegan, ILO Representative for Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia, Lotta Sylwander, UNICEF Resident Representative and Andrew Choga, IOM Chief of Mission, at the ILO Zambia Office
  • Support to the Government of Zambia for the Implementation of Policy and the National Plan of Action against Human Trafficking

August 2009 

• ILO launches book on “Forced labor: Coercion and exploitation in the private economy”
  19 August 2009 - More than 200 years after a slave rebellion in the Caribbean sparked a movement that eventually led to the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, an estimated 12 million people around the world still work under coercion in forced labour, slavery and slavery-like practices. ...
  • Executive Summary "Forced labour: Coercion and exploitation in the private economy" - [pdf 182 KB]

July 2009 

• IALI newsletter highlights the "Handbook for labour inspectors on forced labour and trafficking"
  24 July 2009 - The handbook, first launched at the IALI Conference in June 2008, is part of ILO support to IALI efforts.
  • Forced labour and human trafficking: handbook for labour inspectors - [pdf 2269 KB]
• Capacity Building for Migration Management in China - Newsletter July 2009 - [pdf 785 KB]
  24 July 2009 - Update about the ‘Capacity Building for Migration Management in China’ Project, which is co-implemented by the ILO and IOM, in close partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Human Resources and Socurity, and the Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China.

June 2009 

• US Trafficking in persons report 2009: Financial crisis feeds human trade
  16 June 2009 - The congressionally mandated report provides data from 175 countries about the level of human trafficking occurring within their borders. The report cites the International Labour Organization estimate that at least 12.3 million adults and children are victims of forced labour, bonded labour and sex slavery annually
  • The cost of coercion - [pdf 1074 KB]
• New ILO study on migrant workers and their vulnerability to exploitation, trafficking and forced labour in Bangladesh
  01 June 2009 - This qualitative study of returned migrants by Dr. Rita Afsar of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) in Dhaka has shed new light on some of the complexities and problems faced by Bangladeshi migrant workers leaving the country to work in the Gulf States, as well as the benefits that such migration can bring.

May 2009 

• Abolishing Forced Labour in Indonesia through the Establishment of International standards for Domestic Workers
  25 May 2009 - The new ILO Global Report “The Cost of Coercion” points out that among the intensified international and national efforts to reduce and prevent forced labour, are new laws and policies at national and regional level, as well as a growing provision of social protection for those most at risk of forced labour and trafficking
  • The cost of coercion - [pdf 1074 KB]