The Roles of Employers’ Organizations, Businesses and Trade Unions in Combating Trafficking for Labour Explotation. Background Paper
- Document number
- 1462
- Date
- 2008
- Title
- The Roles of Employers’ Organizations, Businesses and Trade Unions in Combating Trafficking for Labour Explotation. Background Paper
- Author/publisher
- Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, United Nations (UN)
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- Document type(s)
- Meeting Documentation/Conference Reports,
- Keywords
- UN GIFT, United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking, The Vienna Forum to fight Human Trafficking
- Summary
- This background paper provides background information on the issues of theILO’s primary concern, with a particular focus on trafficking for forced labourexploitation, and raises questions for further discussion. It begins by discussing theconcept of forced labour and assessing the current state of knowledge. This is followedby a discussion of demand factors, supply chain management issues and recruitmentsystems. A final section discusses concrete measures that can now be taken to preventand identify forced labour, particularly by employers and workers in cooperation withother national and international partners.
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