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Fair recruitment

Reporting on forced labour and fair recruitment: An ILO toolkit for journalists in Uzbekistan

This toolkit was created to help journalists in Uzbekistan to report on forced labour and fair recruitment.

Measurement, awareness raising, and policy engagement project (MAP16) in Niger

The Bridge Project Livelihood intervention: Findings from the Nepal Midline Survey

The Bridge Project livelihood intervention in Nepal supported 600 former victims of forced labour in Bajura and Kanchanpur, with skills training. Based on a market and beneficiary needs assessment, livelihood participants were offered a training on...

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ILO Fair Recruitment Initiative Strategy 2021-2025 - Taking stock, moving forward

The Fair Recruitment Initiative (FRI) was launched in 2014 as part of the ILO Fair Migration Agenda. Since its launch, the FRI has been critical to ILO’s work in the area of national and international recruitment of workers and has added renewed...

Fair recruitment

Reporting on forced labour and fair recruitment: An ILO toolkit for Nepali journalists

This toolkit was created to help Nepali journalists report on fair recruitment and forced labour.

Fair Recruitment Initiative

Recruitment of migrant workers from Nepal: Country profile

This review provides an overview of legislative and policy frameworks concerning recruitment of migrant workers in Nepal and identifies gaps in relation to the ILO General Principles and Operational Guidelines for Fair Recruitment.

Reclaiming space for workers in the 21st century: A literature review on worker centers

This report reviews the emergence, experiences and practices of workers’ centres in different contexts of labour relations.

The Work in Freedom Handbook: A critical glossary of terms relating to freedom and unfreedom in the world of work

The purpose of this critical glossary is to deconstruct some of these commonly used concepts related forced labour, modern slavery and human trafficking in order to flag their blind spots, merits and other characteristics.

Uzbekistan - Feedback mechanism on forced labour and other labour rights violations

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).

A comprehensive analysis of policies and frameworks governing foreign employment for Nepali women migrant workers and migrant domestic...

One of the principal causes and risk factors for forced labour and trafficking, identified by past research led by the International Labour Organization (ILO)’s Work in Freedom (WiF) Programme, is restrictive and gender-insensitive migration...

Media-Friendly Glossary on Migration Fair Recruitment and Forced Labour - Viet Nam Edition

The Media-Friendly Glossary on Migration Fair Recruitment and Forced Labour - Viet Nam Edition serves as a guide for journalists, researchers, trainers and other actors in Viet Nam who write about labour migration, especially in the context of...

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Access to protection and remedy for victims of human trafficking for the purpose of labour exploitation in Belgium and the Netherlands

Belgium and the Netherlands are recognised for their handling of anti-trafficking law and policy. This report examines the access to protection and remedy for victims of human trafficking for the purpose of labour exploitation that are available in...

Policies to prevent and tackle labour exploitation and forced labour in Europe

Promising practices for fair recruitment: Fair recruitment pilot between Nepal and Jordan in the garment sector

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: Nepal – Bilateral labour agreements include provisions related to fair recruitment

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: Italian National Action Plan to tackle labour exploitation, unlawful recruitment and forced...

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: Revision of the Law on Contract-Based Overseas Workers

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: Law amendment concerning management of migrant workers in Thailand

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: Zero recruitment fee policy for (migrant) workers in Jordan

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: Tunisia – Formation of a new body of inspectors for the recruitment industry

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).