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ILO launches Migration Glossary for Middle East media

The glossary guides journalists in the region towards rights-based reporting on migration, forced labour and trafficking in persons, as part of an initiative to promote fair migration.

Work in Freedom

DFID announces £13 million for ILO Work in Freedom programme

DFID pledges a new package of support totalling £13 million for the ILO-run Work in Freedom programme to prevent trafficking and forced labour among women migrant workers from South Asia.

Launch of SEA Fisheries Project: Strengthening coordination to combat labour exploitation and trafficking in fisheries

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has launched the SEA Fisheries project to combat human trafficking in fisheries in Southeast Asia.

ILO discusses international labour standards with China - Forced Labour Convention Seminar successfully held in Kunming under EU supported...

Government agencies and representatives of Employers and Workers engaged in discussion on ratification of the ILO Forced Labour Convention 1930 (No. 29) at a seminar in Kunming under EU-supported project

Tajikistan Creates Framework for ILO Forced Labour Protocol Ratification

On 22 November 2017, a meeting of Tajikistan’s Tripartite-Plus Working Group was held jointly with the Ministry of Labour, Migration and Employment (MLME) and ILO-IPEC in preparation for ratification of the ILO Forced Labour Protocol 2014.

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I couldn’t stand living like a slave

Once, she locked me in an empty room for three days with nothing to eat or drink. No water, nothing! I’d never felt thirst like that before, the desperation was driving me mad, I even drank my own urine.” Rosa, a Togolese former domestic worker in...

Modern slavery and child labour: Asia’s unacceptable record

62 per cent of the victims of modern slavery and 40 per cent of the child labourers around the world are in Asia and the Pacific. Unacceptable forms of work call for unprecedented measures to combat them, says Tomoko Nishimoto, ILO Assistant...

Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour

The international community agrees to redouble efforts to fight against child labour and forced labour

The three-day IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour concluded with the adoption of the Buenos Aires Declaration which spells out principles and actions to be taken. During the meeting, delegates presented almost 100...

Meetings in Tashkent

Discussions were held in Tashkent on 14th of November between the Minister of Employment and Labour Relations of Uzbekistan, Aktam Khaitov, and ILO Senior International Labour Standards and Labour Law Specialist, Lejo Sibbel.

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The strength of tripartism: ratifying the Forced Labour Protocol

Only 21 countries have ratified the ILO Forced Labour Protocol since it was overwhelmingly adopted in 2014. Ed Potter and Yves Veyrier, who were respectively vice chairs of the Employer and Worker group in the Committee which led to its adoption,...

Forced labour

Namibia joins the global movement to combat forced labour

ILO calls Commonwealth Youth to support the fight against forced labour and child labour

Modern Slavery and Child Labour

ILO to host Facebook Live Session on 2017 Global Estimates of Modern Slavery and Child Labour

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Modern Slavery: Is it happening next door to you?

They could be your neighbours, they could be the construction workers down the street. Modern slavery happens everywhere, including in Europe.

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How the ILO is helping to end forced labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry

Around one in four adults in Uzbekistan are involved with the annual cotton harvest, which takes place between September and November. Learn what the ILO is doing to prevent forced labour during the cotton harvest.

The horror of modern slavery on screen

50 for Freedom advocate and actor, Joaquín Furriel, was special guest of the International Labour Organization at a screening in Geneva of the award-winning movie, ‘The Boss: Anatomy of a crime.’

ILO’s Ship to Shore Rights Project in Songkla commits to decent work in Thai fishing and seafood sector

Opening remarks at the Alliance 8.7 Consultation for the Pacific Islands

By Ms Tomoko Nishimoto, ILO Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific at the Alliance 8.7 Consultation for the Pacific Islands

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Switzerland reaffirms its commitment to combating all forms of forced labour

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Spain joins the global movement to combat forced labour