Publications on forced labour

2022

  1. Global Estimates of Modern Slavery: Forced Labour and Forced Marriage - Executive Summary

    12 September 2022

  2. Gender-sensitive reporting and communication on labour migration

    25 August 2022

    Stories about “migrants” tend to not capture gender-related disparities and the specific challenges that women or men can face in their labour migration experiences, this brief explores how journalists and communicators can introduce a gender-sensitive approach to their work.

  3. Media-friendly glossary on migration: Fair recruitment and forced labour- Uganda Edition

    29 July 2022

    The Glossary is part of the International Labour Organization (ILO) series of media-friendly glossaries on migration. It is intended to guide media practitioners on use of appropriate terminologies when writing/reporting about labour migration.

  4. 2020-2021 Annual Review under the follow-up to the ILO 1998 Declaration - Compilation of baseline tables, by country

    08 July 2022

    (based on the reports of Member States that have not ratified all fundamental Conventions and/or that have not ratified the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930)

  5. Building Trust in Cotton Fields: The ILO’s engagement in Uzbekistan

    18 May 2022

  6. 8.7 Accelerator Lab Initiative

    13 May 2022

    The 8.7 Accelerator Lab aims to accelerate progress on the elimination of child labour and the eradication of forced labour by optimizing the effectiveness of development cooperation interventions.

  7. Media-Friendly Glossary on Migration Fair Recruitment and Forced Labour - Uzbekistan Edition

    13 May 2022

    The Media-Friendly Glossary on Migration Fair Recruitment and Forced Labour – Uzbekistan Edition serves as a guide for journalists, researchers, trainers and other actors in Uzbekistan who write about labour migration, especially in the context of recruitment of migrant workers and forced labour. The ILO conducted the validation workshop based on a draft of the media friendly glossary. This glossary was produced under the ILO project “From Protocol to Practice: A Bridge to Global Action on Forced Labour (Bridge Project),” funded by the US Department of Labor.

  8. 2021 third-party monitoring of child labour and forced labour during the cotton harvest in Uzbekistan

    28 April 2022

  9. 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.

2021

  1. © ILO & RHSF / Gargalo Vasco 2024

    Through their eyes - Visions of forced labour

    05 November 2021

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