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From brooms to books: Ranjita returns to school
Many choose migration to escape poverty for themselves and their families. The ILO’s Work in Freedom programme reduces vulnerability to trafficking of women and girls by supporting informed migration, fair recruitment and decent work.
Working Paper on Operational Parameters to Assess Fair Recruitment Practices
These parameters list a series of questions and issues that should be looked into in order to assess recruitment practices.
Bangladesh programme
Work in Freedom brief
Provides an overview of the Work in Freedom programme in Bangladesh.
Regional programme
Brief on the "Work in Freedom" Programme
Provides an overview of the Work in Freedom programme.
Brief on the "Work in Freedom" Programme in Jordan
Provides an overview of the Work in Freedom programme in Jordan.
Brief on the "Work in Freedom" Programme in Lebanon
Provides an overview of the Work in Freedom programme in Lebanon.
Brief on the "Work in Freedom" Programme in Nepal
Provides an overview of the Work in Freedom programme in Nepal.
Brief on the "Work in Freedom" Programme in India
Provides an overview of the Work in Freedom programme in India.
Study
No easy exit – Migration bans affecting women from Nepal
A blog
Why framing the discourse on human trafficking is important - some thoughts
Forced labour
Work in Freedom: Preventing trafficking of women and girls in South Asia and the Middle East - Technical Cooperation Progress Report 2013
ILO technical cooperation progress report for the period: April 2013 to December 2013.
Project
ILO-DFID Partnership Programme on Fair Recruitment and Decent Work for Women Migrant Workers in South Asia and the Middle East "Work in...
The Work in Freedom is an integrated programme to support mobility by choice among women and girls from destination countries (India, Bangladesh and Nepal) to decent jobs with safety and dignity of workers in destination countries (India, Lebanon...
Project
Work in Freedom: Preventing trafficking of women and girls in South Asia and the Middle East
The ILO-DFID “Work in Freedom” programme promotes empowerment and education, fair recruitment, safe migration and decent work for women and girls from South Asia, and thus contribute to the prevention of human trafficking in this region and in the...
Forced labour
ILO-DFID Partnership Programme on Fair Recruitment and Decent Work for Women Migrant Workers in South Asia and the Middle East - NEPAL
The Programme, known as “Work in Freedom”, aims to prevent trafficking of women and girls from Bangladesh, India and Nepal as migrant workers in major destination countries (India, Jordan, and Lebanon). It will empower women and girls economically...
Work in Freedom
The aim of the project is to reduce vulnerability to forced labour within the labour migration context of South Asia and Middle East with a particular focus on women in the garment sector and domestic work.