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Responsible Recruitment Interactive Mapping Tool

The tool brings together existing initiatives, emerging standards, schemes, risk assessment tools and other programmes related to responsible recruitment and forced labour .

Tackling child labor: An introduction for business leaders

A resource by UNICEF and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) that sets out steps business leaders can take to ensure that their companies are leveraging their full potential to support the elimination of child labour in business operations and supply chains.

Taking Action on Responsible Recruitment to Fight Forced Labour

This podcast by ILO GBNFL Member the Consumer Goods Forum looks at the scale of the unethical recruitment problem and what businesses can do to take action.

Guidance on modern slavery risks for Thai businesses

This guidance assists Thai-listed companies to identify, address and report on modern slavery risks throughout their value chains. The guidance is jointly published by Walk Free, the Stock Exchange of Thailand and Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAST).

An introduction to forced labour of children for businesses

Where forced labour and child labour overlap, children are in forced labour. This ILO GBNFL brief provides an introduction to the issue and sets out first steps for businesses to make a difference.

The due diligence toolkit for fair recruitment

This ILO GBNFL and ILO International Training Centre digital toolkit helps businesses, especially SMEs, to set out a due diligence process when hiring workers from abroad. The toolkit is also available in French and Spanish, here in our library.

La boîte à outils de la diligence raisonnable pour un recrutement équitable

Cette boîte à outils numérique de l’OIT GBNFL et du Centre International de Formation de l’OIT aide les entreprises, en particulier les PME, à mettre en place un processus de diligence raisonnable lors de l'embauche de travailleurs étrangers. La boîte à outils est également disponible en anglais et en espagnol, ici dans notre bibliothèque.

El conjunto de herramientas de diligencia debida para la contratación equitativa

Esta caja de herramientas digitales de la OIT GBNFL y del Centro Internacional de Formación de la OIT ayuda a las empresas, especialmente a las PYME, a establecer un proceso de diligencia debida cuando contratan a trabajadores migrantes. La caja de herramientas también está disponible en francés e ingles, aquí en nuestra biblioteca.

COVID, ESGs and Going to the Moon: How Business Can Unite to Eliminate Forced Labour

A short and useful overview of why forced labour eradication is essential to the private sector, and how it can be achieved.

Addressing forced labour in global supply chains

This podcast looks at how laws related to due diligence have changed over the past five years, and how brands can start to address these requirements.

Zeroing in on recruitment practices in the fresh produce supply chain

This podcast features an interview with Ethical Food Initiative (EFI) Managing Director Kenton Harmer about the key changes that still need to be made throughout the recruitment process on fresh produce farms, along with the changes he has witnessed around labour practices over the years, and the impact of COVID-19 on the leadership and ethical practices on these farms.

ILO GBNFL Annual Report 2020

The report provides an overview of the network’s achievements in 2020.

Breaking out of the informal economy: Does new technology hold the key?

Two billion people – more than six out of ten workers in the world – make their living in the informal economy. The ILO estimates that some 1.6 billion of these workers have been significantly impacted by the COVID pandemic. Among them, women and young workers have been particularly hard hit. One emerging solution is technology.

FAST: The Podcast

The podcast series explores the connections between global finance, forced labour and human trafficking, and the different ways the financial sector can harness its leverage to end these abuses.

Managing Ethical Recruitment from East Africa to the Gulf States

This guidance was developed by Verité for companies operating in Gulf countries to both illustrate the risks of old models for foreign recruitment and to demonstrate that better, more ethical models exist.

Guidance on due diligence for EU companies to address the risk of forced labour in their operations and supply chains

The guidance aims to help EU companies address the risk of forced labour in their operations and supply chains, in line with international standards, and provides concrete, practical advice on how to identify, prevent, mitigate and address its risk.

Modern Slavery Toolkit for Suppliers

This toolkit by our Member GBCAT helps companies that work in corporate supply chains to quickly identify areas of their business which carry the highest risk of modern slavery and develop a simple plan to prevent and address any identified risks. It is designed particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Anti-slavery scorecards for the hospitality and finance sectors and supply chains

This industry-specific, confidential self-assessment gives businesses a snapshot view of how their anti-slavery strategy measures against industry standards. The questionnaire takes around 4 minutes to complete. Once finished, users can access free resources and materials to help develop a comprehensive anti-slavery strategy.

Business and human rights: Frequently asked questions for companies

This list of frequently asked questions (FAQs) aims to help businesses, and in particular small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), to feel more confident about what human rights mean and how to manage human rights risks.

How can employer’s organizations support respect for human rights?

This guide provides advice to employers' organizations on: 1. How to support member companies to build know-how on human rights, 2. Practical steps to fulfil that role, including examples of peer practices, and 3. Where to access more information and resources on this topic.

SMEs could be catalysts in the fight against forced labour.

This ILO GBNFL podcast series explores the potential of SMEs to end forced labour, and how to unleash it. It features interviews with SMEs, employer's organizations and academic experts.

ILO GBNFL Calling all SMEs! Ten steps on the journey to ending forced labour by 2030.

FAQs on Forced Labour and Fair Recruitment for Malaysian Businesses

In 2021, we, together with our Member the Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) and the ILO’s BRIDGE project, hosted three online workshops on forced labour and fair recruitment for Malaysian businesses in export manufacturing and the plantation sector. This document summarises the questions asked by the businesses and the answers given.

Five actions to help SMEs end forced labour by 2030

In April 2021, the ILO GBNFL and Alliance 8.7 - the global partnership aiming to eradicate modern slavery by 2030 - jointly hosted a webinar and online discussion to determine how to unleash the potential of SMEs in the fight against forced labour.

Why and how businesses want to eradicate forced labour

If we work together and harness the potential of SMEs we can eradicate forced labour by 2030. This ILO GBNFL brief sets out how we can achieve this.

Delta 8.7 Markets Policy Guide

This guide looks at how economic policy, trade policy, financial policy, development policy and supply chains can help end forced labour.

2021 Food and Agriculture Benchmark

The first Food and Agriculture Benchmark measures and ranks 350 of the world’s most influential food and agriculture companies on their environmental, nutritional and social impact. According to the data reviewed, the majority of companies lack comprehensive commitments and procedures prohibiting child and forced labour in their operations and supply chain.

PROMISING PRACTICES: A global database of anti-slavery practices and outcomes to establish what works in the fight against modern slavery.

The database, originally set up in 2015 and updated in 2020, features evaluations of anti-slavery and counter trafficking programs in a searchable format to determine what works – and what does not – to eradicate modern slavery. These evaluations cover all forms of modern slavery, including human trafficking, forced labour, and forced marriage. It includes interventions such as community empowerment programs, cash transfers, training for police, awareness raising campaigns, and case management, among other initiatives and activities. A handy report brings together lessons learned.

The human cost of illicit trade: Exposing demand for forced labour in the dark corners of the economy.

This report by ILO GBNFL Partner TRACIT shows that women, children and men of all ages and race are forced to labor in illicit sectors, where they are abused by organized criminals pursuing clandestine profits. It concludes that ending these human rights abuses will only be possible by eradicating illicit trade and the demand for forced labor associated with it.

When subterranean slavery supports sustainability transitions? Power, patriarchy, and child labor in artisanal Congolese cobalt mining.

This study examines the factors conducive to child labour and modern slavery in Congelese small and artisanal cobalt mining. It includes recommendations for government, suppliers and end-user companies.