News on forced labour
October 2013
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Conference "Combating forced labour and human trafficking in Africa - Current responses and a way forward"
On 19-20 November 2013, the ILO is organizing a tripartite conference to assess current responses, to document good practices and lessons learnt, to devise a strategy and build a coalition to champion the fight against forced labour and human trafficking in Africa
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ILO calls for more international cooperation to fight human trafficking
18 October 2013
Geneva event aims at stepping up the fight against human exploitation.
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EU, Switzerland events highlight scourge of human trafficking
16 October 2013
October 18 is EU anti-trafficking Day, and also marks the start of Switzerland’s first anti-trafficking week. The events aim to raise awareness of the trafficking of human beings, often called modern day slavery. (audio)
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What do we know about human trafficking in Switzerland?
15 October 2013
This is one of the issues which will be discussed during Switzerland’s first annual Anti-Human Trafficking Week.
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Opening event: Swiss week against trafficking in persons
11 October 2013
September 2013
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ILO study examines working conditions in Thai fishing industry
02 September 2013
A new report has found shortfalls in Thailand’s fishing industry in relation to national and international labour standards.
August 2013
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Fighting bonded labour in Nepal
02 August 2013
Though it is banned by the government and has all but disappeared from certain locations, bonded labour persists in some parts of the country.
July 2013
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© Sajjad Hussain / AFP 2024
Major new initiative to protect women and girls from modern-day slavery
15 July 2013
ILO and DFID team up to combat the trafficking of women and girls in South Asia and the Middle East.
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Educate, inform and empower women to prevent forced labor
15 July 2013
ILO Director-General Guy Ryder, tells CNN that billions of US dollars are withheld from workers worldwide - money that should be invested into lifting people out of poverty and out of entrapment.
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Work in Freedom: Making migrant work safer for women from South Asia
15 July 2013
Millions of women are trafficked from South Asia each year into exploitative forced labour like conditions. The UK Department for International Development (DFID), the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) have launched a new “Work in Freedom” programme to fight trafficking of women and girls from South-Asia.