All publications: forced labour + trafficking in persons

Project results in Pakistan

Results of the CLEAR Cotton project in Pakistan

This factsheet presents the main achievements of the CLEAR Cotton project in Pakistan.

Women migrant workers

Media representation of women migrant workers: A critical look

The study reviews how overseas women migrant workers are characterized in print and electronic media in accordance with gender, class and geographic stereotypes. It critically assesses how women's multiple roles as workers, earners, investors,...

Workers' rights

STRATEGY: To promote freedom of association in the palm oil sector

This campaign strategy document is developed by the Malaysian Trades Union Congress with a view to promoting freedom of association in the palm oil sector, as well as increasing trade union membership among local and migrant workers in the sector in...

Brochure

The CLEAR Cotton project at a glance

Eliminating child labour and forced labour in the cotton, textile and garment value chains: an integrated approach

Global Research Agenda: Building the evidence base for informed policy action against child labour, forced labour, and human trafficking

Women migrant workers

Rebels, victims, agents of change: The singular histories of women migrant workers

The purpose of this ethnographic study is to shed light on how women view their migration and work abroad. The findings challenge conventional narratives on labour migration of women and bring out important perspectives that invaluably inform...

Guidelines

Conducting and contributing to Evaluations of National Action Plans on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work: A step-by-step guide

These guidelines attempt to highlight the key stages in which we can appropriate integrate all Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work along the evaluation process of National Action Plans (NAPs) on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (FPRW).

Global Estimates of Modern Slavery: Forced Labour and Forced Marriage - Executive Summary

Report

Global Estimates of Modern Slavery: Forced Labour and Forced Marriage

This report was produced through a collaboration between the ILO, Walk Free and the International Organization for Migration.

Forced labour

Forced labour and forced labour indicators for the rubber industry in Malaysia

It contains key points about: (1) what is forced labour; (2) related national legislations; and (3) indicators of forced labour and what companies should do.

Media-friendly glossary on migration: Fair recruitment and forced labour- Uganda Edition

The Glossary is part of the International Labour Organization (ILO) series of media-friendly glossaries on migration. It is intended to guide media practitioners on use of appropriate terminologies when writing/reporting about labour migration.

Migrant women workers

Lessons learned: Lessons learned on policy and programme responses to unfree labour in destination countries for migrant women workers

This document describes the lessons learned by the Work in Freedom programme on policy and programme responses to unfree labour in destination countries for migrant women workers. This compilation was preceded by an earlier edition of Lessons...

ILO 1998 Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and its Follow-up

Adopted at the 86th Session of the International Labour Conference (1998) and amended at the 110th Session (2022)

Building Trust in Cotton Fields: The ILO’s engagement in Uzbekistan

2021 Third-party monitoring of child labour and forced labour during the cotton harvest in Uzbekistan

ILO Brief

Rough seas: The impact of COVID-19 on fishing workers in South-East Asia

This brief assesses the impacts of the pandemic on workers in the fishing industry in Asia and the Pacific, with particular attention to the pandemic’s impacts on migrant fishers.

Behavioural insights in employers’ choice of recruitment services for domestic work

The ILO launched a campaign based on behavioural science, in a bid to influence the market in Hong Kong towards greater demand for fair recruitment practices. This report presents the results of the randomised control trial that was designed and...

Promising practices for fair recruitment

Regulation of Private Recruitment Agencies in Uganda

This promising practice is part of a series, and results from a stocktaking exercise undertaken five years after the launch of the Fair Recruitment Initiative (FRI).

Promising practices for fair recruitment

Madagascar alignment of labour code to newly ratified conventions

This promising practice is part of a series, and results from a stocktaking exercise undertaken five years after the launch of the Fair Recruitment Initiative (FRI).

Facilitator’s manual

Training for Malaysian inspectors on forced labour, child labour and gender-based discrimination, violence and harassment in the workplace

This facilitator’s manual for Malaysian labour inspectors on forced labour, child labour and gender-based discrimination, violence and harassment in the workplace is developed to build the capacity of the labour inspectorate to enforce national...