2025
Understanding Working Conditions of Fishers in Indonesia: Evidence from the 2024 Survey on Decent Work in Marine Fishing
This ILO report explores decent work-related challenges in Indonesia’s marine fishing sector.
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2025
Temporary Labour Migration: Towards Social Justice?
This ILO book explores how temporary migrant workers are particularly vulnerable and face additional challenges in terms of discrimination, exploitation and forced labour and of experiencing deceptive forms of recruitment.
2025
ILO Global Estimates on International Migrant Workers
This report reveals how international migrant workers make an important contribution to economic growth and development in originating and destination countries. They bring skills, resilience, and diverse perspectives to labour markets, and often fill gaps in various economic sectors.
2025
ILO GBNFL Annual Report 2024
Take a look at what the ILO GBNFL achieved in 2024. We look forward to continuing the work for our members in 2025 and beyond.
2024
Due diligence toolkit for fair recruitment in Malaysia
The ILO GBNFL and ILO International Training Centre digital toolkit provides guidelines to Malaysian businesses, especially SMEs, to set out a due diligence process when hiring workers from abroad.
2024
ILO GBNFL Annual Report 2023
Take a look at what we achieved in 2023. We look forward to continuing our work for our members in 2024 and beyond.
2024
SPECIAL PODCAST EPISODE – Malaysia’s rubber industry takes on forced labour.
During the COVID-19 pandemic reports of forced labour in Malaysia's rubber glove industry were rife. Malaysian rubber companies adopted a zero recruitment fee policy and reimbursed migrant workers, making significant progress in combating forced labour in just four years.
2024
SPECIAL PODCAST EPISODE – Fighting forced labour in fishing: How Namibia became a pioneer
Find out how Namibia is taking on forced labour and other labour abuses in fishing while tackling environmental degradation at the same time. Hear from national and global experts as well as the Namibian Labour Inspectorate. Tune in for tips, advice, and resources for businesses.
2023
Country briefs – Mexico
Three country briefs provide an overview of forced labour, fair recruitment and the role of companies and employer and business membership organizations in eradicating forced labour and unfair recruitment. The briefs are available in Spanish only.
2023
Are you a small- or medium-sized enterprise owner or employee? Then this podcast series is for you.
In three short episodes we introduce you to forced labour, share the latest figures, show you how to spot the signs, and point you in the direction of useful free tools and resources. Even better, we introduce you to three SME owners/directors who are taking on forced labour and child labour and making a difference.
2022
The ILO Forced Labour Observatory
This ILO platform provides comprehensive global and country information on forced labour, including information on international and national legal and institutional frameworks, enforcement, prevention (including fair recruitment and due diligence), protection, access to justice, remedies, and more.
2022
ILO definition of recruitment fees and related costs
This resource is a summary and schematic of the ILO's definition of recruitment fees and related costs.
2022
Guidance on the repayment of worker-paid recruitment fees and related costs
This guidance by our member the Consumer Goods Forum helps businesses to prevent situations of forced labour through fair recruitment. It focuses specifically on how to tackle worker-paid recruitment fees, which can make workers vulnerable to debt bondage.
2022
ILO GBNFL factsheet: The latest global facts and figures on forced labour at your fingertips
Take 2 minutes to read our factsheet featuring the latest data on forced labour relevant to the private sector.
2022
Sweat & Toil App: Child labour, forced labour, and human trafficking around the world
The US Government maintains a list of goods and their source countries which it has reason to believe are produced by child labour or forced labour. These lists can be accessed through the app, as well as other useful information.
2022
Eradicating forced labour: What works in practice
How can forced labour be eradicated globally? What approaches are the most effective at gaining ground towards this goal, and can they be replicated across country contexts? The ILO GBNFL's report Eradicating forced labour: What works in practice seeks to answer these questions.
2022
Trafficking Risks in Sub-Saharan Supply Chains
This website by Verité features reports on 22 major African export commodities, and on all 49 sub-Saharan African countries. The reports provide information about industry and national characteristics relevant to trafficking risk, as well as an analysis of risk factors associated with each commodity and country. The site also shares resources for companies e.g. on compliance systems.
2022
ITUC Recruitment Advisor Platform
Lists more than 10,000 recruitment agencies around the world. Governments provide a list of licensed recruitment agencies to be shared on the website.
2022
Hidden Traffic
A podcast series on modern slavery and human trafficking aimed primarily at compliance professionals. Episodes focus on different sectors, the role of digital platforms, current trends, and more.
2022
ILO Hub: Labour Provisions in Trade Agreements
Allows users to navigate and analyse labour provisions in trade agreements through an interactive world map, trend graphs and tables with text. To see which trade agreements mention forced labour, click on ‘Obligations’ and then tick ‘Forced labour’ under ‘Thematic areas’.
2022
How can I manage the risk of modern slavery in my supply chain? Three promising tools
The guide presents several tools that assess the risk of forced labour, identify high-risk producers in supply chains, and provide solutions to remediate violations. Contact details are provided for each tool.
2022
Modern Slavery Response and Remedy Framework
This framework, designed by Walk Free and the Human Rights Resources and Energy Collaborative (HRREC - a group of Australian companies), provides practical guidance to assist companies with their response to modern slavery or related exploitation in their supply chains or operations. It specifically provides guidance on remediation.
2022
ILO’s Frequently Asked Questions on Fair Recruitment
These FAQs provide user-friendly answers to technical questions on how to implement fair recruitment in practice. They are based on questions commonly received by ILO constituents (member states, workers' organisations and employers' organizations).
2022
Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance
The IRMA website features global standards that cover all mined materials (except energy fuels) coming from all sizes of industrial mines all over the world. IRMA also offers third-party certification at the site of the mine.
2022
2022 Trafficking in Persons Report
The Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report is the U.S. Government’s principal diplomatic tool to engage foreign governments on human trafficking. It is a comprehensive resource of governmental anti-trafficking efforts with countries ranked according to tiers.
2022
Global Estimates of Modern Slavery: Forced Labour and Forced Marriage
The latest Global Estimates indicate that 50 million people were living in modern slavery in 2021. Of these people, 28 million were in forced labour and 22 million were trapped in forced marriage. Unfortunately, the number of people in modern slavery has risen significantly in the last five years. In 2021, 10 million more people were in modern slavery compared to 2016 global estimates.
2022
Child labour and responsible business conduct – A Guidance Note for Action
This UNICEF report provides guidance to businesses and others on meeting SDG Target 8.7 on eradicating child labour by 2025. The report outlines how the private sector can respond to child labour more effectively and sustainably. It includes deep dives analyzing business policies and practices in three key sectors: cobalt, cocoa, and cotton.
2022
Empowerment and employment of survivors of human trafficking: A business guide
Safe and sustainable employment is one of the most effective ways to prevent the re-exploitation of survivors of human trafficking and other forms of slavery. This guide by our member GBCAT describes actions business can take to empower and employ survivors and explains the types of organizations that companies can look to for partnership support, including real-world case examples.
2022
Detecting, deterring and dealing with forced labour in businesses: A toolkit for the South African mining sector
A comprehensive toolkit by our member Stronger Together for South African mining businesses to inform and equip them to deter, detect and deal with forced labour and labour exploitation. The toolkit includes useful policies and templates for businesses to mitigate against risks in their operations and wider supply chain.
2022
Supporting Workers Affected by the War in Ukraine
ILO GBNFL member Stronger Together and its partners have created a guide for UK businesses to help ensure that workers affected by the conflict are protected from harm, and have a positive recruitment and employment experience. Much of the guidance is transferable to recruitment into other countries.
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