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Tackling passport retention in palm oil
Ending passport retention is possible! In Malaysia, many employers see no harm in keeping their employees’ passports as a way to avoid turn over. However, some companies have started questioning this common practice and have found a way to ensure...
Protocol to the Forced Labour Convention
Thailand joins the global movement to combat forced labour
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Djibouti is determined to fight modern slavery
Djibouti has ratified the Forced Labour Protocol, the twenty-third country, and the fifth African Union Member State, to do so.
Fair recruitment
New online ratings help migrant workers avoid unscrupulous recruiters
A new web platform aimed at migrant workers lists user reviews of recruitment agencies. By helping migrants avoid falling for false promises, the website is an important tool to promote fair recruitment.
Forced labour
Hundreds of Brazilian workers rescued at least twice from slavery in past 15 years
The Digital Observatory of Slave Labour in Brazil, a joint project by the ILO and the Federal Labour Prosecution Office, has issued new data on slave labour in the country.
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Latvia brings us closer to the 50forFreedom goal
It becomes the 22nd country to ratify the Forced Labour Protocol.
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Making Fair Recruitment a reality!
For the first time, an ILO project fosters Nepalese workers to be recruited fairly to work in Jordan in the garment sector. This project demonstrates that positive change can happen when all the key actors along a supply chain work together.
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I couldn’t stand living like a slave
Once, she locked me in an empty room for three days with nothing to eat or drink. No water, nothing! I’d never felt thirst like that before, the desperation was driving me mad, I even drank my own urine.” Rosa, a Togolese former domestic worker in...
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The strength of tripartism: ratifying the Forced Labour Protocol
Only 21 countries have ratified the ILO Forced Labour Protocol since it was overwhelmingly adopted in 2014. Ed Potter and Yves Veyrier, who were respectively vice chairs of the Employer and Worker group in the Committee which led to its adoption,...
Forced labour
Namibia joins the global movement to combat forced labour
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Modern Slavery: Is it happening next door to you?
They could be your neighbours, they could be the construction workers down the street. Modern slavery happens everywhere, including in Europe.
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How the ILO is helping to end forced labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry
Around one in four adults in Uzbekistan are involved with the annual cotton harvest, which takes place between September and November. Learn what the ILO is doing to prevent forced labour during the cotton harvest.
The horror of modern slavery on screen
50 for Freedom advocate and actor, Joaquín Furriel, was special guest of the International Labour Organization at a screening in Geneva of the award-winning movie, ‘The Boss: Anatomy of a crime.’
Forced labour
Switzerland reaffirms its commitment to combating all forms of forced labour
Forced labour
Spain joins the global movement to combat forced labour
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The Netherlands gives impetus to the global effort to eradicate all forms of forced labour
Strengthening their efforts in fighting human trafficking, the Netherlands ratifies the ILO Forced Labour Protocol.
Forced labour
Denmark joins renewed fight to end forced labour
Forced labour
Sweden joins the global movement against forced labour
Forced labour
Iceland ratifies the 2014 Protocol to the 1930 ILO Forced Labour Convention, as part of a renewed global effort to eradicate all forms of...
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Jamaica takes the lead in the Caribbean in the fight against modern slavery
It ratifies the Forced Labour Protocol, during the International Labour Conference in Geneva, becoming the 14th country to do so worldwide.