News on forced labour

August 2021

  1. Sierra Leone is founding crisis recovery and resilience on international labour standards

    25 August 2021

    Sierra Leone’s historic ratification of 9 ILO instruments was marked in a virtual ceremony with the ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder.

May 2016

  1. Expert workshop "Measuring Modern Slavery" - Fourth Meeting

    This meeting is planned as a follow up of the first three meetings in April, September and December 2015 in the framework of the work on the SDGs indicators. Its objective is to review the work done during the first three meetings and informing new participants on the global objectives of this working group, to share the results of the discriminant analysis made on the FL survey from Myanmar and to work on the operational definition and measurement framework of bonded labour.

November 2015

  1. Expert workshop "Measuring Modern Slavery" - Third Meeting

    This meeting is planned as a follow up of the first two meetings in April and September 2015 in the framework of the work on the SDGs indicators. Its objective is to work on the operational definition and measurement framework of forced labour of children and to continue the work on sampling design and short prevalence surveys for national level

August 2015

  1. Expert workshop "Measuring Modern Slavery" - Second Meeting

    This meeting is a follow up of the first meeting in April 2015, and its objective is to sharing survey instruments already used and the measurement framework used to measure forced labour.

April 2015

  1. Expert workshop "Measuring Modern Slavery"

    The key objectives of these two days of consultation are to take stock of the current state of knowledge of tools and methodologies; to analyse the current limitations and challenges faced; to discuss the need for a unique operational definition of forced labour and for criteria for identifying modern slavery situations; and to identify partnerships and opportunities for further collaboration.

October 2013

  1. ICLS resolution concerning further work on statistics of forced labour

    31 October 2013

    The 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) adopted a Resolution, recommending “that the Office set up a working group with the aim of sharing best practices on forced labour surveys in order to encourage further such surveys in more countries.”