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- 'Slave labour’ in Malaysia: Time to rethink migrant labour management
- The Rakyat Post - 10 November 2014 - After years of warnings, the United States recently downgraded Malaysia to Tier 3 in its annual Trafficking in Persons ...
- AP Investigation: Men forced to work as slaves to catch seafood for global supply
- Canadian Business - 24 March 2015 - The Burmese slaves sat on the floor and stared through the rusty bars of their locked cage, hidden on a tiny tropical ...
- What has forced labour to do with poverty?
- Open Democracy - 17 February 2015 - Income-based measures of poverty are unreliable for determining who is most vulnerable to forced labour. More nuanced ...
- Nestle Finds Forced Labour in its Supply Chain
- AUDIO: BBC World Service - 25 November 2015 - After a year-long investigation, the world's biggest food company Nestle says it's found evidence of forced ...
- The dangerous appeal of the modern slavery paradigm
- Open Democracy - 25 March 2015 - Endorsing the modern slavery bill, even by seeking to include additional protections within it, supports rather than ...
- Long days, no money and no escape: Life of a North Korean migrant worker
- CNN - 15 May 2015 - Rim Il arrived in Kuwait in the dead of night, full of high hopes.
- Blog - Creating the choices needed to end forced labour and child labour
- AP Forced Labour Net - 29 April 2015 - By Simrin Singh, Senior Specialist on Child Labour, ILO DWT for East and South-East Asia and the Pacific
- Terrified victims of Thai trafficking face uncertain future
- BBC News - 18 October 2014 - For at least five years, the Andaman coast of Thailand has been the scene of some horrific abuses, mainly against ethnic ...
- Trafficking for forced labour – how to monitor the recruitment of migrant workers
- ILO - 2006. This training manual aims to raise awareness amongst labour inspectors, police, government officials, employers’ organizations, trade unions, and ...
- Map "Workers’ Alliance against Forced Labour and Trafficking"
- ITUC - 2010. This map designed by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), with the support of the ILO Special Action Programme to combat forced ...
- Measuring the Costs of Coercion to Workers in Forced Labour
- ILO - 2009. This is research answers the questions; What are, in addition to the human suffering, the financial costs of coercion to people who work in forced ...
- The cost of coercion
- ILO - 2009. This Report aims to set out the challenges facing the key actors and institutions involved in a global alliance against forced labour. There are ...
- 21 million people are now victims of forced labour, ILO says
- ILO - June 4, 2012. "According to new ILO estimates, three out of every 1,000 people worldwide are trapped in jobs into which they were coerced or deceived and ...
- ILO Global Estimate of Forced Labour 2012: Results and Methodology
- ILO - 2012. The purpose of the present document is to describe in detail the revised methodology used to generate the 2012 ILO global estimate of forced ...
- Summary of the ILO 2012 Global Estimate of Forced Labour
- ILO - 2012. Using a new and improved statistical methodology, the ILO estimates that 20.9 million people are victims of forced labour globally, trapped in jobs ...
- ILO Data Initiative on Modern Slavery
- Multi-stakeholders process initiated by the ILO to harmonize data collection worldwide and generate better prevalence data.
- Asia migrant crisis: Malaysia exhumes mass graves
- BBC News - 26 May 2015 - Malaysia has begun exhuming bodies suspected to be migrants buried in 139 grave sites close to the Thai border.
- Bitter harvest: Exploitation and forced labour of migrant agricultural workers in South Korea
- Migrant workers under the Employment Permit System (EPS) make up a substantial proportion of the agricultural workforce in South Korea. Their labour is ...
- Migrant worker policy to resume: Indonesian official
- The China Post - 31 March 2015 - Indonesia will continue to send migrant workers to man Taiwanese fishing vessels, according to statements made by an ...
- Why Does Modern Slavery Persist?
- Huffington Post - 30 March 2015 - Tens of millions of people are currently enslaved around the world. Modern slavery is a hidden crime, so it's hard to get ...
- Forced labour in the production of electronic goods in Malaysia - A comprehensive Study of Scope and Characteristics
- Verite - September 2014 - You might think about debt bondage in relation to making bricks in South Asia or building skyscrapers in the Middle East, not putting ...
- Sex trade and forced labour thrive on Asia’s illegal migrants
- The Australian - 23 March 2015 - “P” was only 17 when she was lured from her provincial Cambodian home to Asia’s sex trade. But she is also one of the few to ...
- Modern slavery is a massive problem -- here's how to fix it
- Business Insider - 16 March 2015 - Migrant workers unload frozen fish from a boat at a fish market in Samut Sakhon Province, west of Bangkok, Friday, June 20, ...
- Why you should be wary of statistics on ‘modern slavery’ and ‘trafficking’
- Washington Post - 24 April 2015 - Human trafficking — or, as some prefer, “modern slavery” — is a largely hidden crime, so data are relatively scarce. Note ...
- Forced labour and human trafficking: A policy position paper of the ASEAN Confederation of Employers
- As part of the employers’ component of the ASEAN Triangle project an Action Plan to fully engaging employers’ organizations in ASEAN processes was developed ...
- Thousands of Nepali migrants lose farms in debt bondage
- Reuters - 24 March 2015 - Thousands of Nepali farmers have fallen into debt bondage and lost their land after paying exorbitant fees to agents for jobs abroad, ...
- Qatar’s ambitious future driven on by North Korean ‘forced labour’
- The Guardian - 7 November 2014 - As dusk falls on the luxury high-rise emerging from the swirling sands in the desert north of Doha, dozens of labourers hurry ...
- Regulating labour recruitment to prevent human trafficking and to foster fair migration: Models, challenges and opportunities
- This working paper presents the role of international labour standards in regulating recruitment and provides a preliminary overview of national laws, ...
- Migrant and child labor in Thailand’s shrimp and other seafood supply chains: Labor conditions and the decision to study or work
- US renews call for Thai crackdown on fishing abuses
- Bangkok Post - 26 March 2015 - The US government and major business leaders are renewing their call on the Thai government to crack down on slavery in its ...