News on forced labour
March 2022
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Unpacking concepts of freedom and unfreedom in the world of work
A series of special lectures and panel discussions presented by Work in Freedom programme.
March 2015
February 2015
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© Tabitha Ross/ILO 2022
New study sheds light on plight of working street-based children in Lebanon
16 February 2015
Study is the first of its kind to comprehensively profile the size and magnitude of street-based child labour in Lebanon
August 2014
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© Anwar Amro / AFP 2022
Edging closer to justice: The journey of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon
15 August 2014
One migrant domestic worker in Lebanon decided to fight the “kafala” system and escape her employers. She took her case to a Lebanese court, and, seven years on, has been rewarded by achieving a measure of justice, a feat that would have seemed impossible to achieve a mere decade ago.
July 2013
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Work in Freedom: Making migrant work safer for women from South Asia
15 July 2013
Millions of women are trafficked from South Asia each year into exploitative forced labour like conditions. The UK Department for International Development (DFID), the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) have launched a new “Work in Freedom” programme to fight trafficking of women and girls from South-Asia.
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© Sajjad Hussain / AFP 2022
DFID, ILO to launch new initiative to tackle trafficking of women and girls
10 July 2013
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© Sajjad Hussain / AFP 2022
Launch of DFID-ILO “Work in Freedom” programme
The UK Department for International Development (DFID), the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) will launch the new “Work in Freedom” programme to fight trafficking of women and girls from South-Asia.
April 2009
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Maid in Lebanon
15 April 2009
Driven by extreme poverty in their home countries, thousands of female migrant workers go each year to the Arab States in order to earn enough money to support their families. What they find there is sometimes not what they expected. A film directed by Carol Mansour and funded by Caritas Sweden, the Netherlands Embassy in Beirut and the ILO depicts the gamble these women take when they decide to leave their families and go to work in Lebanon.