Asia

2011

1. Reducing Vulnerability to Bondage in India through Promotion of Decent Work

   01 April 2011

   The overall objective of the project is to reduce vulnerability of workers to bondage situations in brick manufacturing and rice mill sectors in Tamil Nadu by achieving a significant improvement in living and working conditions for women and men workers and their family members.

2010

1. Prevention of trafficking in persons through improved management of labour migration in Sri Lanka

   24 September 2010

   The overall goal of the project is to promote decent work in “conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity” for women and children employed as domestic or unskilled workers abroad, reducing their vulnerability to rights violations as victims of trafficking for labour exploitation.

2009

1. Eliminating Forced Labour and Trafficking in Jordan

   01 March 2009

   The project seeks to strengthen government law enforcement capacity to identify, investigate and prosecute offences for forced labour and human trafficking; and support the establishment of an efficient and regulated recruitment mechanism.

2. Forced Labour and Trafficking In Jordan - A Pilot Programme on the Qualified Industrial Zones

   01 March 2009

   The project seeks to improve the law enforcement capacity of the government against trafficking for labour exploitation, with a particular focus on the export-oriented factories in Jordan’s Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZ), where there have been recent reports of severe labour exploitation which in the worst cases could amount to criminal trafficking.

2008

1. Economic and social empowerment of returned victims of trafficking in Thailand and the Philippines

   29 September 2008

   In Southeast Asia, Thailand and the Philippines are among the countries facing serious problems of trafficking in persons. In both countries, many of the women migrating have been recruited not knowing the living and working conditions they would need to endure nor the extent of debt that they would have to bear. Deception is the most common method used to lure victims, using false promises related to the nature of work, the income and working conditions.

2007

1. Promoting the Elimination of Bonded Labour in Pakistan (PEBLIP)

   28 June 2007

   The present project is an expansion and continuation of on-going technical cooperation under taken by ILO in Pakistan since 2001.

2. Combating Forced Labour and Trafficking of Indonesian Migrant Workers

   11 May 2007

   This project aims to protect migrant domestic workers from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore & Hong Kong

3. Revitalizing public-private partnerships against trafficking and forced labour in East Asia

   11 May 2007

   Mongolia, Vietnam, China

4. Capacity building for migration management in China

   11 May 2007

   The ‘Capacity Building for Migration Management in China’ Project is co-implemented by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) in close partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, and the Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China. This project is principally financed by the European Commission, with co-funding from the Italian Ministry of Interior and the United Kingdom Border Agency. The project seeks to promote cooperation between China and the EU in field of migration through the exchange of expertise, information and personnel. The components of the project include raising awareness of the risks associated with irregular migration.