All publications: forced labour + trafficking in persons

ILO Data Initiative on Modern Slavery

Multi-stakeholders process initiated by the ILO to harmonize data collection worldwide and generate better prevalence data.

Background report "ILO Working Group on Statistics of Forced Labour"

Advocacy to reduce child labour

Country level engagement and advocacy to reduce child labour (CLEAR): Fact sheet

The Project aims to enhance the capacity of the Philippines to reduce child labour by supporting its actions addressing the recommendations contained in the USDOL’s Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labour Report.

Brochure

The Fair recruitment initiative

Fostering Fair Recruitment Practices, Preventing Human Trafficking and Reducing the Costs of Labour Migration

Background Note - Human exploitation: ending human trafficking and forced labour

Over the past few years we have seen a significant intensification of global action against the forms of coercion variously referred to as slavery, forced labour, institutions and practices similar to slavery and human trafficking. This background...

Forced and compulsory labour in international human rights law

This paper takes a historical approach examining how the understanding of the scope of slavery and forced and compulsory labour, as well as other forms of compelled labour, has evolved.

Modern slavery: the concepts and their practical implications

This paper takes a historical approach examining important differences between individual and systemic cases of coercion which necessitate distinct legal and policy responses.

Referral Directory: Services for Labour Migrants and Survivors of Trafficking (Cambodia 2014)

This Referral Directory 2014 is an important tool for national & regional social workers, border authorities, and community-based service providers working with Cambodian migrants & trafficked persons and aims to assist these stakeholders to make...

Prevention and elimination of bonded labour: the potential and limits of microfinance-led approaches

This paper, authored by S. Premchander V. Prameela and M. Chidambaranathan of the Indian NGO SAMPARK, documents the learning processes of the NGOs and microfinance organizations that experimented with different approaches to microfinance and bonded...

Final concept paper of the 7th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour

Final Concept Paper of the 7th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour, 20-21 November 2014, Nai Pyi Taw, Myanmar

Migrant health professionals and skilled workers

Promoting decent work across borders: A Philippine based project for migrant health professionals and skilled workers: Final project fact...

Migration trends had shown that skilled nurses and other health professionals while vital, were also globally scarce.

Promotion of the rights of migrant workers

Tripartite action for the protection and promotion of the rights of migrant workers in the ASEAN region (ASEAN Triangle Project): Project...

The ILO with funding support from the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development is implementing a project called Tripartite Action for the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers in the ASEAN Region (ASEAN...

IOE-ILO guidance note on the 2014 Protocol to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930

Short note jointly produced by the ILO and IOE to support the employer/business engagement to implement the Forced Labour Protocol

Labour migration

Migrant Worker Resource Centre operations manual

A manual on establishing and operating a resource centre for migrant workers including information for potential migrants.

Increasing awareness on gender sensitivity

Increasing awareness on gender sensitivity, women rights and human trafficking in the Typhoon Bopha (Pablo) affected communities in Davao...

The abovementioned subproject was implemented with the purpose to prevent accidents of gender-based violence and trafficking in persons in the typhoon affected communities in upland and coastal barangays of the municipalities of Boston and Cateel.

Labour protection of interns in Chinese textile and apparel enterprises

In recent years, protection the rights of interns has become an important issue in the Chinese manufacturing industry, and a new challenge in the field of corporate social responsibility.

Solomon Islands child labour & trafficking forum

Project fact sheet

Project fact sheet: Tripartite Action for the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers in the ASEAN Region (ASEAN TRIANGLE Project)

This Project Brief gives an overview of the project background and objectives. It summarizes the activities and outcomes undertaken by the project.

Protocol to Convention 29

Protocol to Convention 29 - Protocol to The Forced Labour Convention, 1930, Adopted by the Conference at its one hundred and third Session,...

Recommendation 203

Recommendation 203 - recommmendation on Supplementary Measures for the Effective Suppression of Forced Labour, Adopted by the Conference at...