Publications on forced labour

2015

  1. Handbook for employers and business – Booklet 3 Guiding Principles to Combat Forced Labour

    25 June 2015

    A set of principles based on ILO standards and jurisprudence to guide business action against forced labour and trafficking. (2015 revised edition)

  2. Handbook for employers and business – Booklet 2 Employers' Frequently Asked Questions

    25 June 2015

    A quick reference guide for managers, human resource personnel and others, that answers FAQs from employers. The guide addresses topics such as prison labour, forced overtime and debt bondage in an easy-to-use format. (2015 revised edition)

  3. Handbook for employers and business – Booklet 1 Introduction and Overview

    25 June 2015

    This new handbook provides guidance material and tools for employers and business. Part 1 presents information about relevant international standards, recent figures and data, and forms of forced labour in the global economy alongside excerpts of international Conventions and Protocols. (2015 revised edition)

  4. Handbook for employers and business – Booklet 6 Tips for Taking Action

    22 June 2015

    A set of practical reference guides that identify some of the concrete measures and benefits that companies can take to address forced labour and trafficking. (2015 revised edition)

  5. A just transition for all: Can the past inform the future?

    11 June 2015

    2015 is a decisive year for global agreements on Sustainable Development and climate change. The ILO calls for a just transition for all towards a greener and more socially sustainable economy. This Journal is focussing on drawing lessons from a few transition experiences in order to analyse how successfully (or not) these processes were managed in the past and how future transitions might be handled in a just manner. Challenges such as policy coherence, consultations and participation by all relevant stakeholders are addressed and lessons learned on these issues are highlighted in the Journal.

  6. World Report on Child Labour 2015: Paving the way to decent work for young people

    10 June 2015

    The second volume of the ILO World Report on Child Labour series highlights the close linkages between child labour and good youth employment outcomes, and the consequent need for common policy approaches to addressing challenges arising in countries where both child labour and youth unemployment prevail.

  7. Final report "ILO expert workshop on Measuring Modern Slavery"

    15 May 2015

  8. Work in Freedom: Preventing trafficking of women and girls in South Asia and the Middle East - Technical Cooperation Progress Report 2014

    01 May 2015

    ILO technical cooperation progress report for the period: February 2014 to January 2015.

  9. Background report "ILO Working Group on Statistics of Forced Labour"

    27 April 2015

  10. ILO Data Initiative on Modern Slavery

    27 April 2015

    Multi-stakeholders process initiated by the ILO to harmonize data collection worldwide and generate better prevalence data.