All news: forced labour + trafficking in persons
ILO Accel Africa project supports the drafting of the Nigeria Alliance 8.7 communication strategy in Lagos
The workshop gathered approximately 40 participants who are Members of the Alliance 8.7 Technical Committee and are members of one of the three identified Priority areas.
ILO launches the Report: “Ending Child Labour, Forced Labour and Human Trafficking in Global Supply Chains”
The report joins data and expertise from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) , the International Organization for Migration (IOM) , the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the International Labour Organization ...
Cotton picking women and adolescent girls of Southern Punjab sensitized on child labour, forced labour and OSH
ILO organised series of five farm level awareness raising seminars cum workshops on child labour, forced labour and OSH for the cotton picking women and adolescent girls workers of Southern Punjab under its project “Elimination of Child Labour and...
Alliance 8.7
Countries in Asia and the Pacific drive action to end child labour, forced labour and human trafficking
Asia-Pacific countries committed to accelerate action and strengthen collaboration to ensure that all women, men, girls and boys are free from child labour, forced labour and human trafficking.
No social justice without achieving Target 8.7
Ms. Walter Dagmar, Director, DWT South Asia and India, addresses the gathering on behalf of ILO’s Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, Ms. Tomoko Nishimoto at the inaugural session of the Asia Regional Conference on Alliance 8.7
International Labour Standards
Malawi renews commitment toward International Labour Standards
Child Labour
Child labour and human trafficking remain important concerns in global supply chains
New estimates of child labour, forced labour and human trafficking in global supply chains are revealed in a report compiled by the ILO, OECD, IOM and UNICEF – members of the Alliance 8.7 partnership on child labour, forced labour, modern slavery...
Our impact, their voices
“Forced labour is unacceptable, it has no place in modern Uzbekistan”
Uzbekistan boosts commitment to eradicate forced labour by ratifying the ILO 2014 Protocol on Forced Labour
Global Business Network on Forced Labour
First Annual Meeting of the ILO Global Business Network on Forced Labour
The ILO Global Business Network on Forced Labour, launched in June 2018 holds its first annual meeting focusing on business coordination and collaboration to eradicate forced labour and engaging smaller companies.
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Better labour inspection cuts abuses in the Thai fishing sector
The ILO is training labour inspectors in Thailand as part of a project to prevent and reduce unacceptable forms of work in the country’s fishing and seafood industries.
Seminar on Business, Human Rights and Decent Work for SME Advisors in Georgia
The course aimed to discuss the principles of responsible business conduct and corporate social responsibility and how those principles can be most effectively implemented in business operations which will affect positively the worker productivity,...
Migration
Bolstering the efforts to ensure decent working conditions for women migrants in Thai construction sector
ILO organized a roundtable meeting on ‘Safety, protection and rights of women construction workers in Thailand” to identify possible intervention to ensure equal and fair pay, better living conditions, safety and protection of women migrant...
Ensuring Decent Working Conditions to Workers
A round table “The World of Work in Uzbekistan: Situation and Prospects” was held in Tashkent on the occasion of the World Day for Decent Work launched by the International Trade Union Confederation.
Child labour
ILO encourages Malaysia to consider pathfinder role for an Alliance 8.7
Marking Malaysia’s World Day against Child Labour, ILO encourages Malaysia to lead at the regional and global levels as a pathfinder country in fight against child labour.
Commission of Inquiry
ILO Commission of Inquiry issues report on complaint against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
The Commission of Inquiry set up by the ILO Governing Body to examine a complaint against the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has adopted its report.
Southeast Asian Forum for Fishers to enhance efforts to end human trafficking and forced labour in fisheries
The SEA Forum for Fishers (the Southeast Asian Forum to End Trafficking in Persons and Forced Labour of Fishers) agreed on recommendations calling for flag States to protect fishers and migrant fishers on vessels flying their flag, particularly on...
Forced Labour
Uzbekistan ratifies the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention
Uzbekistan becomes the 40th ILO member State having ratified the Protocol
Forced Labour
Austria renews commitment to combat forced labour
Austria has ratified the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention becoming the 39th ILO member State to do so
Forced Labour
Belgium joins efforts to combat forced labour
Belgium has ratified the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention becoming the 38th ILO member State to do so
Forced Labour
Lesotho joins efforts to combat forced labour
Lesotho has ratified the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention becoming the 37th ILO member State to do so
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