ILO to launch comprehensive new report on Global Forced Labour
GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Office (ILO) is to
launch a comprehensive report on forced labour on 11 May 2005, providing
for the first time global and regional data on the scope of forced
labour, an estimate of the profits derived from trafficking in people
and propose a new global initiative to abolish such practices.
"A Global Alliance Against Forced Labour" has been prepared under the
Follow up to the ILO's Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights
at Work, and is the most extensive and detailed analysis of contemporary
forced labour to be issued to date.
The 87-page study provides the first estimates by an international
organization of forced labour in the world today, both globally and
regionally, number of people affected by forced labour; victims of
trafficking and first estimate of the profits made by those exploiting
trafficked workers.
The report also analyses the major categories of forced labour and
provides an overview of main policy points that show the abolition of
forced labour presents significant challenges for virtually every
country in the world - industrialized, transition and developing
countries alike. |