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

Forced Labor and Human Trafficking: Estimating the Profits

The paper is part of the ILO Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour (SAP-FL) research on the quantitative and economic dimensions of forced labor and human trafficking. It complements research published by SAP-FL, in particular on the economic perspective on human trafficking in Europe (Working Paper No.31) and on the definition, indicators and measurement of forced labour (Working Paper No. 18)

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

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

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

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/

Discrimination at Work: Asia

Fact sheet on discrimination in Africa, prepared by the ILO