News and articles

April 2022

  1. © Serhi Hudak/NurPhoto/AFP/Europ 2022

    Prevention through information: ILO campaign on Ukrainian railways to prevent labour exploitation among refugees

    12 April 2022

    The ILO and the State Labour Inspectorate of Ukraine came through with an information campaign on Ukrainian railways that warns people on the move about situations that may lead to labour exploitation.

March 2016

  1. © Hugues 2022

    Mauritania becomes the second African country to commit to ending modern slavery

    14 March 2016

    The country is among the first to formally implement the 2014 Protocol to the ILO’s Forced Labour Convention No.29.

February 2015

  1. © Tabitha Ross/ILO 2022

    New study sheds light on plight of working street-based children in Lebanon

    16 February 2015

    Study is the first of its kind to comprehensively profile the size and magnitude of street-based child labour in Lebanon