All publications: forced labour + trafficking in persons

Unfair recruitment

Unravelling the vicious cycle of recruitment: Labour Migration from Bangladesh to the Gulf States

This study in Bangladesh 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...

Questions and answers on “The cost of coercion”, the 2009 ILO global report on forced labour

The 2009 ILO global report on forced labour entitled “The cost of coercion” says that victims of forced labour lose an estimated USD 20 billion ever year in unpaid earnings. This and other findings provide a powerful economic argument for stepping...

Measuring the Costs of Coercion to Workers in Forced Labour

What are, in addition to the human suffering, the financial costs of coercion to people who work in forced labour? In other words, how much money is “stolen” from people in forced labour?

Fact sheet The Cost of Coercion - Regional Perspectives: Europe and Central Asia

Regional perspectives from the ILO Global Report "The Cost of Coercion" (2009)

Fact sheet The Cost of Coercion - Regional Perspectives: Middle East

Regional perspectives from the ILO Global Report "The Cost of Coercion" (2009)

Fact sheet The Cost of Coercion - Regional Perspectives: Americas

Regional perspectives from the ILO Global Report "The Cost of Coercion" (2009)

Fact sheet The Cost of Coercion - Regional Perspectives: Asia

Regional perspectives from the ILO Global Report "The Cost of Coercion" (2009)

Fact sheet The Cost of Coercion - Regional Perspectives: Africa

Regional perspectives from the ILO Global Report "The Cost of Coercion" (2009)

Executive Summary of 2009 Global Report on Forced Labour "The cost of coercion"

In presenting this report the ILO launched a challenge to the world community, to build and consolidate a global alliance, involving a range of partners, in order to eradicate forced labour at the earliest opportunity.

Global Report on Forced Labour 2009

The cost of coercion - Global Report on Forced Labour 2009

Global Report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. Forced labour is the antithesis of decent work. The least protected persons, including women and youth, indigenous peoples, and migrant workers,...

Indigenous & Tribal People's Rights in Practice - A Guide to ILO Convention No. 169

This publication is a result of collaborative efforts of a wide group of ILO staff, indigenous organizations, experts and researchers on the main aspects of indigenous and tribal peoples’ rights. It hopes to provide governments, indigenous and...

Forced Labour and Human Trafficking: Casebook of Court Decisions

This training manual for judges, prosecutors and legal practitioners

Operational indicators of trafficking in human beings

Four sets of operational indicators of trafficking (adults and children for labour and sexual exploitation) resulting from a joint European Commission-ILO project. The Delphi methodology used to reach a consensus on these lists is presented in the...

Exploitation of Cambodian men at sea : Facts about the trafficking of Cambodian men onto Thai fishing boats

Fact sheet on the recruitment, trafficking, and exploitation of Cambodian men onto Thai fishing boats, published by the United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP). It is based on 49 cases of victims who escaped in Thailand or...

Deepening crisis in developing Asia: A decent work response by Gyorgy Sziraczki, ILO Senior Economist

Explanations for indicators of trafficking for sexual exploitation

Detailed explanations of the indicators used with the Delphi methodology to define indicators of trafficking at the European Union level

Explanations for indicators of trafficking for labour exploitation

Detailed explanations of the indicators used with the Delphi methodology to define indicators of trafficking at the European Union level

Combating trafficking in Persons - A Handbook for Parliamentarians

Parliamentarians have an essential role to play in the fight against human trafficking. The present Handbook, published by the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT), suggests some practical ways in which...

Give girls a chance: tackling child labour, a key to the future (media summary)

This report focuses on girls and child labour, the theme of the World Day against Child Labour for 2009. This, of course, does not diminish our concern with the harm suffered by boys engaged in child labour. However the report is intended to bring...

Fact sheet on girl child labour

Girls, alongside with boys, are often engaged in heavy work for long hours. Nationally, 0.4 million girls and 0.6 million boys among children aged 10-14 were working in 2007 (National Labour Force Survey, BPS).