All publications: forced labour + trafficking in persons

Filipino domestic workers

An analysis of the situation of Filipino domestic workers

The ILO promotes decent work for all, including those employed in households. Its Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work adopted in 1998, obligates member States to respect, promote and realize freedom of association and the right...

Combating forced labour and trafficking of Indonesia migrant workers(Mid-Term Evaluation Summary)

Child trafficking: The ILO's response through IPEC

A concise overview of the problem of child trafficking, its causes and the factors that make children vulnerable to becoming its victims. This briefing note also describes the experience and lessons learned of the ILO and its partners in combatting...

Module for guidance and counselling for prevention of the worst forms of child labor and child trafficking for SMP/Package B Students (in...

ILO commends the Indonesian Teachers’ Association (PGRI) of Sukabumi District Branch which, with full support from the District Office of Education, has developed this teaching module and applied the module in some SMPs in the District.

Rights at work: an assessment of the Declaration’s technical cooperation in select countries

This report examines each of the three areas (freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining; equality and non-discrimination; elimination of forced labour and trafficking) supported by the Programme on Promoting the Declaration in...

A Workers’ Alliance against Forced Labour and Trafficking

Joint project between the Special Action Programme against Forced Labour and the International Trade Union Confederation. Workers’ involvement is key to the success of the ILO campaign to rid the world of forced labour and human trafficking by 2015....

Child trafficking

Child trafficking in the Philippines: A situational analysis

Child trafficking is essentially seen as a labour phenomenon which has relationships to migration. The decision for a child to leave home to work, willful or not, made by him or for him by his parents, is affected by individual, familial and...

“Ending Slavery", Kevin Bales

The book stresses that slavery is not a matter of duration, as it is not necessarily a permanent condition. It’s characterized by the control of a person, through restriction of housing, food supply and movement and by the use or threat of...

World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL) 2007: Information sheet: Migrant families, child labour and child trafficking in agriculture

Combating Forced Labour and Trafficking of Indonesian Migrant Workers 2006 - 2008 (Mid-Term Evaluation Summary)

Project INS/06/10/NOR

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

Eradication of forced labour - General Survey concerning the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), and the Abolition of Forced Labour...

The Survey by the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations of the national legislation and practice on forced labour.

Rapid assessment report on trafficking of children into worst forms of child labour, including child soldiers in Uganda

Subtitle: astudy conducted in the districts of Busia, Pader, Kalangala Masaka and Kampala as part of IPEC TBP preparatory activities.The rapid assessment was undertaken to collect data on child trafficking in Uganda with ultimate goal of designing...

Methodologies for global and national estimation of human trafficking victims: current and future approaches

This paper provides a detailed comparison of the methodologies used by the ILO and the US government for computing global estimates, discussing strengths and weaknesses of both methods.

Directions for national and international data collection on Forced Labour

This paper provides some ideas and directions as to how the existing gaps in our understanding of the quantitative dimensions of forced labour could be reduced.

Stop child trafficking (in Bahasa Indonesia)

Information about the Stop Child Trafficking aims to increase awareness about child trafficking issues in the Main Stakeholders, so that they can make efforts to change social perceptions, attitudes, traditions and norms that encourage the...

ILO/USA Declaration Project Indonesia: Snapshot 2001 - 2006

Brief overview of the Project activities and outputs

Working paper No. 78 - Globalization and the illicit market for human trafficking: an empirical analysis of supply and demand.

Emergency response to child labour in selected Tsunami affected areas in Sri Lanka (Mid Term Evaluation Summary)

Project SRL/05/50/USA

Prevention of trafficking in children and women at a community level in Cambodia and Vietnam (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project RAS/02/09/HSF