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2024
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.