Forced Labor Statistics

Fact sheet with statistics about forced labor world-wide. Includes breakdown by population, regions, gender, and age, and profits from forced labor

Forced Labour in Latin America

A fact sheet on forced labor in the Latin American region, inclusive of statistics and an outline of the ILO’s actions against it

A Rapid Assessment of Bonded Labour in Hazardous Industries in Pakistan: Glass Bangle-Making, Tanneries, and Construction

This working paper is one of a series of Rapid Assessments of bonded labor in Pakistan, each of which examines a different economic sector. The aim of these studies is to inform the implementation of the Government of Pakistan’s National Policy and Plan of Action for the Abolition of Bonded Labour, adopted in 2001

Thermodynamics of the Flexible Metal-Organic Framework Material MIL-53(Cr) From First Principles

We use first-principles density functional theory total energy and linear response phonon calculations to compute the Helmholtz and Gibbs free energy as a function of temperature, pressure, and cell volume in the flexible metal-organic framework material MIL-53(Cr) within the quasiharmonic approximation. GGA and metaGGA calculations were performed, each including empirical van der Waals (vdW) forces under the D2, D3, or D3(BJ) parameterizations. At all temperatures up to 500 K and pressures from -30 MPa to 30 MPa, two minima in the free energy versus volume are found, corresponding to the narrow pore ($np$) and large pore ($lp$) structures. Critical positive and negative pressures are identified, beyond which there is only one free energy minimum. While all results overestimated the stability of the $np$ phase relative to the $lp$ phase, the best overall agreement with experiment is found for the metaGGA PBEsol+RTPSS+U+J approach with D3 or D3(BJ) vdW forces. For these parameterizations, the calculated free energy barrier for the $np$-$lp$ transition is only 3 to 6 kJ per mole of Cr$_4$(OH)$_4$(C$_8$H$_4$O$_4$)$_4$

Chinese Migrants and Forced Labour in Europe

A working paper prepared to support the advocacy mission of the ILO’s Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and its Follow-up. Focuses on human trafficking of Chinese migrants in Europe and analyzes current Chinese law on trafficking

Discrimination at Work: The Americas

Fact sheet on discrimination in the Americas, prepared by the ILO

International Action on Discrimination

Timeline of action in support of fundamental right to non discrimination in the workplace, taken by international organizations such as the ILO and the United Nations between 1919 and 2001

Discrimination in the Workplace

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/nondiscrim/

Human Trafficking in Europe: An Economic Perspective

Based on a document originally prepared for the Eleventh Economic Forum of the Organization for Economic Security and Cooperation in Europe, held in Prague between 20-23 May 2003. Attempts to comprehend and document human trafficking’s underlying economic dimensions, and places the concerns of trafficking within broader migration analysis (including the role of irregular migration). It also comments on the financial flows involved in trafficking, and on the different patterns of financing trafficking services. Further, it contains a brief review of the evidence, as to the extent to which organized crime is involved in human trafficking