All news: forced labour + trafficking in persons
Modern slavery and child labour
40 million in modern slavery and 152 million in child labour around the world
New data reveal that the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal Target 8.7, will not be achieved unless efforts to fight modern slavery and child labour are dramatically increased.
Modern slavery and child labour
40 million in modern slavery and 152 million in child labour around the world
New data reveal that the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal Target 8.7, will not be achieved unless efforts to fight modern slavery and child labour are dramatically increased.
Gender equality
Powerful global coalition to boost equal pay for women at work
New initiative will support innovative and effective equal pay policies and practices around the globe.
Media advisory
Alliance 8.7 to present the latest global estimates of modern slavery and child labour
Press and integration
Media plays critical role in ensuring fair gains of economic growth
A media workshop is organized to help Vietnamese labour journalists gain in-depth knowledge on industrial relations issues in economic integration.
Discussion of ILO Programmes to Combat Child Labour in Kyrgyzstan
On 8 August 2017, Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Vice Mayor Nurbek Kadyrov met with Tino Clemens of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Our impact, their voices
The Netherlands gives impetus to the global effort to eradicate all forms of forced labour
Strengthening their efforts in fighting human trafficking, the Netherlands ratifies the ILO Forced Labour Protocol.
Trade Unions
Towards a future of work without child labour and forced labour in Europe and Central Asia
ILO launches journalism fellowship to improve reporting on labour migration in the Arab States
The programme – produced in partnership with the Ethical Journalism Network – targets journalists and digital media in order to change the narrative on migration in the region.
Alliance 8.7
Advancing Alliance 8.7 in Europe and Central Asia
ILO and OSCE host Europe and Central Asia regional meeting on achieving Sustainable Development Goal Target 8.7 of eradicating child labour by 2025 and forced labour, modern slavery and human trafficking by 2030.
Child labour and forced labour
ILO monitoring of the cotton harvest in Uzbekistan
Budapest hosts Europe and Central Asia Regional Consultation Workshop on achieving the SDG Target 8.7 with regard to Child and Forced Labour
Child Labour and Forced Labour
Taking forward Alliance 8.7 in sub-Saharan Africa
“In order to advance Alliance 8.7, we can no longer do business as usual”, said ILO Regional Director for Africa, Aeneas Chuma, at the opening of a two-day regional consultation on child labour and forced labour in sub-Saharan Africa. The conference...
Child Labour and Forced Labour
Statement by H.E. Amira Elfadil at the Consultation on Child Labour and Forced Labour in Sub Saharan Africa in view of the IV Global...
Child Labour and Forced Labour
Statement by Aeneas C. Chuma at the Consultation on Child Labour and Forced Labour in Sub Saharan Africa in view of the IV Global...
Child Labour and Forced Labour
Addis Ababa to host a regional consultation on Child and Forced Labour in sub-Saharan Africa
From 22 to 23 June 2017 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Alliance 8.7 will host a two-day consultative meeting on child labour and forced labour in sub-Saharan Africa, in preparation for the IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour...
Forced labour
Denmark joins renewed fight to end forced labour
Forced labour
Sweden joins the global movement against forced labour
Forced labour
Iceland ratifies the 2014 Protocol to the 1930 ILO Forced Labour Convention, as part of a renewed global effort to eradicate all forms of...
Our impact, their voices
Jamaica takes the lead in the Caribbean in the fight against modern slavery
It ratifies the Forced Labour Protocol, during the International Labour Conference in Geneva, becoming the 14th country to do so worldwide.
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