Projects: forced labour

  1. Support to the Government of Zambia for the Implementation of Policy and the National Plan of Action against Human Trafficking

    1 November 2009 - 31 October 2012

    Recognising the value of coordinated and collaborative programmes of support to the Government of Zambia, the UN Country Team has established a joint programme against human trafficking, involving ILO, IOM, and UNICEF. The objective of this programme is to contribute to the protection of people (especially children and women) from the harmful effects of trafficking by supporting implementation of Government’s policy and action plan against trafficking.

  2. 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.