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The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that focuses on promoting social justice and promoting decent working conditions worldwide. The ILO works to combat human trafficking by conducting research, developing policies and initiatives, and providing technical assistance to governments, employers, and workers. The organization also works to raise awareness about the issue of trafficking and to promote the rights of trafficking victims.
The story so far: “There are 160 million children waiting for your action. How long will they have to wait?” asked Kinsu Kumar, a survivor of child labour and rights advocate, while speaking at a panel organised on the occasion of World Day Against Child Labour. Mr. Kumar started working at the age of six,…
The European Commission has proposed banning all products made using forced labour from the EU market, whether produced domestically or imported. If the proposal introduced in late 2022 comes into force, it will impact many labour-intensive industries and related foreign trade and investment worldwide, creating new challenges for Chinese enterprises trading with Europe. Several Western…
50 million people are living in conditions of modern slavery — a 25% rise over the last five years, says a new report. According to it, the Group of 20 nations are contributing to this increase, as their trade operations and global supply chains allow for human rights abuses. Among the G20 nations, India tops the…
Consistent with the viewpoint on facilitating safe, orderly and regular migration, and resolutely combating illegal migration, the Vietnamese government has regarded the fight against illegal migration and human trafficking a regular and long-term political task. This task should be performed proactively with the close coordination of the international community. In August 2022, 42 Vietnamese in…
Hanoi (VNA) – Consistent with the viewpoint on facilitating safe, orderly and regular migration, and resolutely combating illegal migration, the Vietnamese government has regarded the fight against illegal migration and human trafficking as a regular and long-term political task, which should be performed proactively with the close coordination of the international community. Protecting migrants, preventing human…
Bonded labour has been the subject of numerous debates for quite some time now. There has also been much debate in various parts of the world on how best to eliminate it. Yet, the menace continues to plague Pakistan to this day. According to a report by Al-Jazeera, more than 4 million people in Pakistan…
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said the Government is strengthening inter-agency cooperation to deal with unscrupulous recruitment agencies using unethical means to recruit desperate job seekers and ultimately subjecting them to human trafficking and exploitation. He said regional mechanisms to deal with issues of unfair and unethical recruitment in the Sadc region, particularly personnel from the health…
Highlights Qatar has been accused of violating the human rights of migrant workers. FIFA has defended Qatar and called Western critics hypocritical. Rights groups are calling for more thorough investigations into migrant worker deaths. Anish left his poverty-stricken family in Nepal to help build Qatar’s Lusail Stadium, with the hope of providing for his loved…
We urgently need a new UK law to hold companies and the public sector to account when they fail to prevent human rights abuses and environmental harms in their global value chains. Nothing illustrates how broken the global procurement system is better than examining who gets what and how, at the top and the bottom…
New York: The legacy of the transatlantic slave trade “reverberates to this day”, just as modern-day enslavement is growing, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said. In a message ahead of commemorations for the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, on 2 December, Mr. Guterres said that societies remain scarred by the historical suffering of…
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