ILO homeTopicsForced labour, modern slavery and human traffickingProjects Projects: forced labour MAP16 Project: Measurement, awareness-raising and policy engagement to accelerate action against child labour and forced labour 2 January 2017 - 30 September 2022 From Protocol to Practice: A Bridge to Global Action on Forced Labour (Bridge Project) 1 September 2015 - 2 November 2022 This project aims to support global and national efforts to combat forced labour under the 2014 ILO Protocol and Recommendation on Forced Labour. Combating forced labour and discrimination in Africa 1 March 2006 - 30 September 2008 Niger, one of the world’s most poverty-stricken nations, is one of a few African countries to have recognised a forced labour problem linked in large part to discrimination against people of slave descent.