All publications: forced labour + trafficking in persons

Lists of indicators of trafficking in human beings

List of the indicators of trafficking validated through the Delphi methodology at the European Union level

Preventing Forced Labour Exploitation and Promoting Good Labour Practices in the Russian Construction Industry

Joint report: International Labour Organization and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The report should be seen as an initial attempt to analyse labour conditions in Russia’s construction sector and to discuss the feasibility of...

The Slave Next Door – Human trafficking and slavery in America today

This book exposes the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States.

Overview report of the Research Project by the ILO and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the constitutional and...

The project examined the extent to which the legal framework of 24 selected African countries impacts on and protects the rights of indigenous peoples. The project aimed to contribute to the development of a suitable policy and legal framework for...

Going back, moving on, a synthesis report of the trends and experiences of returned trafficking victims in Thailand and the Philippines

The report explores some of the issues, obstacles and opportunities related to the return and integration of women migrants who have experienced exploitative situation abroad, including forced labour and human trafficking. It is based on a series of...

Fighting forced labour: The example of Brazil

Brazil has been successfully fighting forced labour since 1995, when a new inter-ministerial body was created to coordinate action against it. Government agencies, employers' and workers' organizations, civil society and others have participated in...

United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues – Mission report from Paraguay

This report, undertaken under the mandate of the United Nations Permanent Forum and at the request of the Government of Paraguay, concludes that a system of forced labour exists in the Chaco region, along with grave violations of international...

United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues – Mission report from Bolivia

This report, undertaken under the mandate of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and at the request of the Government of Bolivia, concludes that forced labour exists in the Chaco region, along with grave violations of...

Forced labor: Coercion and exploitation in the private economy

PRAISE FOR FORCED LABOR "Excellent. . . . This state-of-the-art volume provides a first-rate analysis of the dynamics leading to the occurrence of forced labour, its global distribution,and different types of policy responses." -Jens Lerche, SOAS,...

Executive Summary "Forced labour: Coercion and exploitation in the private economy"

This co-publication by the ILO and Lynne Rienner is based on more than six years of research and features case studies from Latin America, South Asia, Africa and Europe.

Fighting forced labour: the example of Brazil

For some fifteen years, since a new inter-ministerial body was created in 1995 to coordinate action against forced labour, Brazil has been addressing the problem with vigour and determination. It has done so in many ways, involving different...

Facilitators' guide

Training manual to fight trafficking in children for labour, sexual and other forms of exploitation - Facilitators' guide

Training material

Training manual to fight trafficking in children for labour, sexual and other forms of exploitation

This training manual – developed by ILO and UNICEF under the UN Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking – seeks to aid governments, workers, employers, international, and non-governmental organizations that combat trafficking in children for...

Textbook 3

Training manual to fight trafficking in children for labour, sexual and other forms of exploitation - Textbook 3: Matters of process

Recruitment of Pakistani Workers for Overseas Employment: Mechanisms, Exploitation and Vulnerabilities

This study in Pakistan was commissioned against the backdrop of growing concern globally about the particular vulnerability of both regular and irregular migrant workers to exploitation, trafficking and forced labour. It was undertaken to inform...

Training manual to fight trafficking in children for labour, sexual and other forms of exploitation

This training manual – developed by ILO and UNICEF under the UN Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking – seeks to aid governments, workers, employers, international, and non-governmental organizations that combat trafficking in children for...

Textbook 2

Training manual to fight trafficking in children for labour, sexual and other forms of exploitation - Textbook 2: Action against child...

Exercise book

Training manual to fight trafficking in children for labour, sexual and other forms of exploitation - Exercise book

Textbook 1

Training manual to fight trafficking in children for labour, sexual and other forms of exploitation - Textbook 1: Understanding child...

This training manual – developed by ILO and UNICEF under the UN Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking – seeks to aid governments, workers, employers, international, and non-governmental organizations that combat trafficking in children for...

Forced labour and human trafficking. Casebook of court decisions

The present casebook fills an important gap. It covers a range of national experience, from judicial decisions on forced and bonded labour in a number of developing countries, through to the more recent decisions on forced labour and trafficking in...