Publications on labour migration

April 2022

  1. Publication

    Behavioural insights in employers’ choice of recruitment services for domestic work

    04 April 2022

    The ILO launched a campaign based on behavioural science, in a bid to influence the market in Hong Kong towards greater demand for fair recruitment practices. This report presents the results of the randomised control trial that was designed and used to identify the most effective message frame to trigger the behaviour of employers of domestic workers in Hong Kong (China) and influence their choice of private recruitment agencies when hiring foreign domestic workers.

March 2022

  1. Promising practices for fair recruitment

    Madagascar alignment of labour code to newly ratified conventions

    23 March 2022

    This promising practice is part of a series, and results from a stocktaking exercise undertaken five years after the launch of the Fair Recruitment Initiative (FRI).

  2. Promising practices for fair recruitment

    Regulation of Private Recruitment Agencies in Uganda

    23 March 2022

    This promising practice is part of a series, and results from a stocktaking exercise undertaken five years after the launch of the Fair Recruitment Initiative (FRI).

November 2021

  1. © ILO & RHSF / Gargalo Vasco 2022

    Cartoons on forced labour

    Through their eyes - Visions of forced labour

    05 November 2021

    Catalogue of the exhibition based on the ILO-RHSF cartoon competition on forced labour.

August 2021

  1. Brochure

    ILO Fair Recruitment Initiative Strategy 2021-2025 - Taking stock, moving forward

    20 August 2021

    The Fair Recruitment Initiative (FRI) was launched in 2014 as part of the ILO Fair Migration Agenda. Since its launch, the FRI has been critical to ILO’s work in the area of national and international recruitment of workers and has added renewed impetus and visibility to this important topic. The 2021-2025 Strategy will continue to be grounded in relevant international labour standards (ILS), global guidance, and social dialogue between governance institutions and actors of the labour market.

July 2021

  1. Fair Recruitment Initiative

    Recruitment of migrant workers from Nepal: Country profile

    15 July 2021

    This review provides an overview of legislative and policy frameworks concerning recruitment of migrant workers in Nepal and identifies gaps in relation to the ILO General Principles and Operational Guidelines for Fair Recruitment.

June 2021

  1. Publication

    Uzbekistan - Feedback mechanism on forced labour and other labour rights violations

    03 June 2021

    This promising practice is part of a series, and results from a stocktaking exercise undertaken five years after the launch of the Fair Recruitment Initiative (FRI).

May 2021

  1. Publication

    Media-Friendly Glossary on Migration Fair Recruitment and Forced Labour - Viet Nam Edition

    17 May 2021

    The Media-Friendly Glossary on Migration Fair Recruitment and Forced Labour - Viet Nam Edition serves as a guide for journalists, researchers, trainers and other actors in Viet Nam who write about labour migration, especially in the context of recruitment of migrant workers and forced labour.

April 2021

  1. Publication

    Post-arrival orientation for migrant workers in Malaysia

    19 April 2021

    In the context of its EU-funded Global Action to Improve the Recruitment Framework of Labour Migration (REFRAME), the ILO has piloted an intervention along the Nepal-Malaysia corridor aiming at addressing challenges in the recruitment practices and processes in the electronics sector.

  2. Publication

    Promising practices for fair recruitment: Zero recruitment fee policy for (migrant) workers in Jordan

    07 April 2021

    This promising practice is part of a series, and results from a stocktaking exercise undertaken five years after the launch of the Fair Recruitment Initiative (FRI).