News on forced labour

ILO Skills Challenge Innovation Call: winning proposals from Ecuador and Comoros start their innovation journey

05 April 2022

Winning entries of the 2nd and 3rd Skills Challenge Innovation Calls were successfully launched in Ecuador and Comoros, with winning teams, partners and their networks expressing their commitment to support e-formality through skills development in Latin America and the Caribbean and around the prevention of forced labour through skills and lifelong learning in Africa.

ILO announces the winner of the 3rd ILO Skills Innovation Call on Preventing forced labour in Africa

15 November 2021

The winner of the 3rd ILO Skills Challenge Innovation Call has been announced, and the USD 30,000 prize has gone to a youth entrepreneurship network in Comoros.

Announcing the finalists of the 3rd ILO Skills Challenge Innovation Call on Preventing forced labour in Africa

27 October 2021

The finalists will be invited to present their ideas to a panel of experts during a virtual pitch event.
Finalists of the 3rd ILO Skills Challenge Innovation Call on Preventing forced labour to be announced on 27 October

15 October 2021

The finalists will move on to the next stage of the evaluation process and will be invited to present their ideas to an independent panel of judges.

A future with hope, free from bonded labour

24 March 2021

Padma Kumari Tamata was born into a bonded labour family, in which debts are passed from one generation to the other. Her life has turned around following ILO-supported skills training in Nepal that aims to rehabilitate former victims of forced labour and empower vulnerable groups. Read her story on our new Voices multimedia platform.

SKILL-UP NIGER: Towards empowering women victims of modern slavery through skills development

18 May 2020

The International Labour Organization (ILO), with the support of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, have launched a project in Niger to empower victims of forced labour through skills development.

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