All publications: forced labour + trafficking in persons

Investigating forced labour and trafficking: Do they exist in Zambia?

This research project was undertaken in response to an approach by the Zambian Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS) to the International Labour Office (ILO) to request assistance to look into the possible existence of forced labour...

Forced labour and human trafficking. Handbook for labour inspectors

This handbook aims to raise awareness of these issues and to examine them in the context of labour inspection, highlighting how labour inspectors can play an active role in the global fight against forced labour and human trafficking.

Advocacy Guide to Eliminate Child Labour

With support of the ILO/IPEC Mongolia (2005-2010), "Advocacy Guide to Eliminate Child Labour" was developed to strengthen develop national capacity to organize advocacy work to eliminate the worst forms of child labour. This guide was to contribute...

ILO Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa, Harare

Child Trafficking in SADC Countries. The Need for a Regional Response

This report on child trafficking represents an effort to collate the available information on child trafficking in Southern Africa with a view to highlighting a number of policy options on how to create a regional legislative and policy framework to...

Forced labour and human trafficking: handbook for labour inspectors

The handbook is a tool for training. It seeks both to inform labour inspectors of the facts and trends of modern forced labour and the challenges before them, and to promote discussion as to how labour inspectorates worldwide could be harnessed more...

Strengthening Employers’Activities against Forced Labour

Project flier on the role of Employers and Business in fighting forced labour

Recommended guidelines for migrant recruitment policy and practice in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region

These recommended guidelines emphasise the importance of improving recruitment processes in order to encourage safe migration and reduce the potential vulnerability of migrant workers to labour exploitation, including the worst forms of child labour...

Forced labour - Mini action guide for trade unions

Mini action guide designed by the International Trade Union Confederation, with the support of the ILO Special Action Programme to combat Forced Labour

Preventing trafficking in girls and young women for labour exploitation within China (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project CPR/04/01/UKM - Evaluation consultants: Dinyar Lalkaka, Laura Luo

Human Trafficking And Forced Labour - Case studies and responses from Portugal

The objective of the book is to study the phenomena of labour exploitation and forced labour to which immigrants and, in particular, victims of human trafficking, are subjected in Portugal. It also sheds light on the treatment of Portuguese...

Employment, vocational training opportunities and migration policy measures to prevent and reduce trafficking in women in Albania, Moldova...

Project RER/05/04/IRL - Evaluation consultant: Emily Hillenbrand

ILO action against trafficking in human beings

In its many projects and advocacy activities, the ILO addresses trafficking from a labour market perspective. It thereby seeks to eliminate the root causes, such as poverty, lack of employment and inefficient labour migration systems. ILO led...

Forced labour and trafficking in Europe: how people are trapped in, live through and come out

The paper is based on ILO research carried out between 2003 and 2007. It summarizes largely qualitative research from ten European source, transit and destination countries. It is therefore the result of a collective effort of researchers from many...

Forced Labor: Critical Issues For US Business Leaders

Background paper prepared for conference on "Engaging Business: Addressing Forced Labor", Atlanta, Georgia, February 20, 2008. Written by Roger Plant, Special Action Program to Combat Forced Labour, ILO, Geneva, Switzerland

ILO Background Paper "FIGHTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING: THE FORCED LABOUR DIMENSIONS"

Background Paper

ILO panel on “Supply Chain Management – Eliminating the Risks of Forced Labour and Trafficking”

AIDE MEMOIRE

ILO panel on “The Roles of Employers’ Organisations, Businesses and Trade Unions in Combating Trafficking for Labour Exploitation”

AIDE MEMOIRE

ILO workshop on “Demand for Forced Labour and Sexual Exploitation – How and Why it Fuels Human Trafficking”

AIDE MEMOIRE

Guide for the Preparation of National Action Plans on Youth Employment

This Guide has been developed by the ILO to assist governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations as well as other relevant stakeholders such as youth groups in preparing National Action Plans on Youth Employment (NAPs).

Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia project flier

Project flier for the project "Development of a comprehensive anti-trafficking response in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia" (2006 - 2008)