Research library

Trafficked to scam: South Asian responses to trafficking in persons for the purpose of forced criminality in scam operations

Situation analysis of the worst forms of child labour and education status in agricultural and other rural areas of Myanmar

A governance and management framework for addressing modern slavery risk in multi-tier supply chains

The interrelationship between digital access and modern slavery

Economic empowerment of girls and young women and its implications for reducing child marriage: Evidence from the Girls Get Equal Project in Tanzania

Hazardous child labour in smallholder coffee farming systems in Uganda: Prevalence, determinants, and implications for children’s education

Bangladeshi Survivor Evidence on trafficking and exploitation in Cambodian cyber-scam compounds: Phase 1 report

Food work: The workers behind our food and the exploitation they face

Good practices and strategic recommendations for strengthening trade union cooperation and collaboration in Africa

The domestic border: Race, labour and the making of migrant subordination in Lebanon

The new Section 301 tariffs for forced labor are vastly excessive

Sudan’s forgotten war and exploitation: Reasserting the legal obligations of parties to prevent trafficking and slavery during armed conflict

Return-on-investment for interventions to reduce adolescent pregnancy and child marriage in Southeast Asia: A five country modelling study

It is all connected: A large-scale study on the reach of modern slavery in complex global supply networks

Decent work and quality of life in primary fishing sector: A scoping review

Managing recruitment, risk, and reintegration: Ethiopian domestic workers and the migration industry

A scoping review of the nexus between child marriage and climate change in Bangladesh

A rapid, realist-informed review of safehouse provision for survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking

Modern slavery in supply chains: Accounting perspectives, evidence and future research

Addressing internal trafficking in persons

Strengthening anti-human trafficking systems in India: A longitudinal RTI and field-based inquiry into AHTU functionality (2010-2025)

Implementing child marriage and female genital mutilation programmes in humanitarian settings: A formative research study in select African countries

Monitoring under authoritarianism: The International Labour Organization’s mission on child and forced labour in Uzbekistan

Growing up in Karamoja, Uganda: Understanding child marriage and child labour

Juridical implications of forced marriage as a form of violence against women

“People are going to do drugs:” harm reduction as a strategy for survivors of sex trafficking who use substances

Architecture of coercion: Conceptualizing and measuring state-imposed forced labor based on ILO standards

Evaluating the role of ASEAN in addressing human trafficking against migrant workers: A case study of Myanmar and Thailand

Child labour in Uganda: Trends and drivers, 2012–2021

Worker-driven co-research in global supply chains

Responsible recruitment in the Malaysian medical gloves industry: Impacts, challenges and recommendations

Cyber scam hubs and human trafficking

Business self-assessment tools for forced- and child-labor-free global supply chains

Reforming the Kafala system

Girls’ work in artisanal cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The prevalence of self-reported child sexual exploitation and abuse by adults in the general population: A systematic review and proportional meta-analysis

It is all connected: a large-scale study on the reach of modern slavery in complex global supply networks

Pathways of harm and benefit: A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of work and living conditions of child domestic workers in Liberia

Assessing forced labor in the distant water fishing supply chain

Anticipating exploitation: A futures based analysis

Gaps in the implementation of restitution for victims of human trafficking in Indonesia

Digital chains: How AI and digital technologies shape labour exploitation and modern slavery in the UK

Trafficking in persons in Nepal

Hiding in plain sight: Trafficking persons with disabilities for begging in Ethiopia

Child labour affects 138 million children worldwide—and far more counting domestic work

Seas of unfreedom: A scoping review of labour exploitation as a structural feature of global fisheries

Disability and human trafficking in Southeast Asia: Vulnerabilities and victim-survivors’ experiences

Building pathways to economic freedom

Childhood adversity and sex trafficking experiences linked to economic and psychological outcomes for U.S. survivors of commercial sexual exploitation

New labor governance? The German supply chain act and national governance mechanisms in Brazil

Uncovering anti-colonial bias in human trafficking research

Conceptualising coercion in child/forced marriage through an intersectional lens: Narratives of survivors and practitioners in the US

Examining attitudes conducive to technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse: Evidence from a representative multi-country study

A world of deceit: Mapping the landscape of the global scam centre phenomenon

Towards fair seas: Recruitment and working conditions for migrant workers in the fishing and seafood processing sectors in South-East Asia

From complaint to redress: Routes to remedy for garment workers in Pakistan

Ethically collaborating with human trafficking survivor leaders

The European Union’s legal framework on the prevention of child labour in global supply chains: Lessons for Vietnam

Restoring belief, reducing criminality: The impact of modern slavery provisions in immigration legislation 2022 to 2025

Repressive, reformist, radical? Representing and responding to child labour in artisanal and small-scale mining

Exploring the determinants of child marriage among boys: A systematic review

From fakes to forced labour: Evidence of correlation between illicit trade in counterfeits and labour exploitation

Hiding in plain sight: Trafficking persons with disabilities for begging in Ethiopia

Invisible girls, visible harms: Health, well-being, and safety among child domestic workers in Myanmar

A second chance to be seen and protected: Analysis of policy and data on reconsideration requests for negative decisions from the National Referral Mechanism

From fakes to forced labour: Evidence of correlation between illicit trade in counterfeits and labour exploitation

Wages and working conditions in global value chains: The relevance of foreign ownership in new sourcing countries

Ideas in action: Evaluation results of a pilot program tackling exploitative child domestic work in Nigeria

Challenges and opportunities associated with anti-trafficking projects in conflict-affected countries

Child marriage and climatic factors: Evidence from survey data in Kenya

The economics of forced labour in global value chains

Trust at work: Lessons learned from co-researchers who have experienced human trafficking

Supporting mutual aid: What the evidence tells us

Study on the concept of trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labour exploitation

Strengthening the UK’s forced labour and human rights legislative framework

The lived experiences of Ethiopian women trafficked to the Middle East

“They don’t see what heat does to our bodies”: Climate change, labor rights, and the cost of fashion in Karachi, Pakistan

Child to child relationships in child domestic worker-included households

From engagement to co-production: Lived experience and research for policy on modern slavery and human trafficking

Breaking the circuit: Why Malaysia’s electronics supply chains must shift from reactive compliance to proactive prevention

Burden of pulmonary tuberculosis among Ethiopians seeking jobs in the Middle East: A retrospective study

Building labour power in the platform economy: A comparative analysis of worker struggles in German and Norwegian food and grocery delivery

Conflict, caregiver violence and gendered parenting: A cross-sectional study among adolescent girls and young women participating in a girls’ empowerment programme in Myanmar

Beyond checklists and handshakes

Wombs of entrapment: Forced pregnancy and the manipulation of maternal bonds among Vietnamese trafficking survivors

10 year retrospective: Addressing forced labor and human trafficking in the Thai seafood and fishing industries

Evaluating anti-trafficking interventions: Critical reflections and lessons from the field

The impact of immigration policy on human trafficking and modern slavery: The state of evidence

‘It’s not going to be tech that gets us out of it’: Modern slavery and digitisation in fashion supply networks

What does it take to protect livelihoods and forests? Insights from workers and communities in the Brazilian Amazon opposing deforestation and slave labour

Human trafficking dynamics and prevention efforts as an outcome of Russia’s war on Ukraine

Validation of prevalence estimation research methods in human trafficking

Prevalence and characteristics of children and adolescents engaged in commercial sex in the Recife Metropolitan Area, Pernambuco, Brazil

Digital technologies, exploitation, and accountability: Unveiling the role of technology in modern slavery within Kenya’s smallholder tea sector

The economic cost of modern slavery: Policing

Child labour in the extraction of strategic raw materials: A review and risk assessment

Responding to trafficking in persons in a crisis: Lessons from the Freedom Fund’s Myanmar hotspot program

Before it’s too late: Curbing cattle-driven deforestation and rights abuses in Brazil

Unveiling systemic exploitation and human rights denials: Insights from domestic workers’ testimonies, Mekelle, Ethiopia

Wombs of entrapment: Forced pregnancy and the manipulation of maternal bonds among Vietnamese trafficking survivors

Narratives on emigration of women from Nepal: Is the state discourse keeping up with reality?

Service not servitude: Modern slavery in the hospitality sector

Realistic computational modeling of human trafficking requires lived experience experts

From risk to resilience: How climate change is deepening child and forced labor in Nepal, and what to do about it

Strengthening the criminal justice system protection of women and children in Uganda

2025 Trafficking in persons report

Regional survey on organisational capacities relating to primary prevention of gender-based violence in Southeast Asia

Investigating human trafficking recruitment online: A study of fraudulent job offers on social media platforms

Females who engage in online child sexual exploitation: A critical narrative review

Coalition-building as a power resource: Transnational collaborations between global unions and non-union actors

Unconventional trafficking: Trafficking in human beings for organ removal

The influence of job demands and job resources on the health of migrant domestic workers: A diary study with Ugandan housemaids in Saudi Arabia

Depression among married female adolescents in Bangladesh: The toll of marriage, pregnancy, and violence

Inside the hidden world of Nepal’s child domestic workers

Can global modern slavery be foot printed for corporate due diligence? A data review and analysis

Psychological and emotional harms of online child sexual exploitation and abuse in children under the age of 18: A systematic review of the evidence

Manifest risk: New “air silk road” cargo flights carry risk of Uyghur forced labor into Europe

Extreme drought and sexual violence against adolescent girls and young women: A multi-country population-based study

Ushering change and transforming lives: An evaluation of the Nigat project to shift household attitudes and norms towards child domestic workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Blood Batteries: The human rights and environmental impacts of cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Piloting the Survivor Leadership Fund: Lessons and insights from Kenya and Uganda

Online risk and harm for children in eastern and southern Africa

Forced scamming – an emerging form of modern slavery

Placing survivor well-being on the policy and evidence map: Research report

Hazardous Child Labour, Psychosocial Functioning, and School Dropouts among Children in Bangladesh: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of UNICEF’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)

Forced labour risk is pervasive in the US land-based food supply

Skilled to care, forced to work? Recognizing the skills profiles of migrant domestic workers in ASEAN amid forced labour and exploitation

From evidence to action: Twenty years of IOM child trafficking data to inform policy and programming

Overexposed: Uyghur region exposure assessment for solar industry sourcing

OECD guidelines for multinational enterprises on responsible business conduct

Worker-driven social responsibility: A new, proven model for defining, claiming, and protecting workers’ human Rights

Impact of providing technology to survivors of modern slavery in the UK

Our work, our lives

An examination of UK companies’ modern slavery disclosure practices: Does board gender diversity matter?

Ethical reporting of research on violence against women and children: A review of current practice and recommendations for future guidelines

Hidden in plain sight: Shining a light on the experiences of child domestic workers in Kenya

Trafficking in persons report 2023

Love Shouldn’t Hurt – E le Sauā le Alofa: Co-designing a theory of change for preventing violence against women in Samoa

Products made with forced labor in the Uyghur region

Guidance on responding to victims in forced scam labour

Addressing human trafficking through health systems: A scoping review

A global systematic scoping review of literature on the sexual exploitation of boys

We name it so we can repair it: Rethinking harm, accountability, and repair in the anti-trafficking sector

Is an End to Child Marriage within Reach?

The Global Slavery Index 2023

Impact of the CARE Tipping Point Program in Nepal on adolescent girls’ agency and risk of child, early, or forced marriage

Guidance note: Wage protection for migrant workers

Seeds in our pockets: How can funders nurture thriving social justice movements by and for people on the move

What’s Changed In 10 Years?

On exploitation, agency and child domestic work: Evidence from South-west Nigeria

Captive commodities: Commodification, exploitation and missingness of Ethiopian irregular migrants on the Eastern Route to Yemen and Saudi Arabia

Community-based empowerment program to delay marriage: Results from the More Than Brides Alliance intervention in India, Malawi, Mali and Niger

Putting things right: Remediation of forced labour under the Tariff Act 1930

Implementation of a Universal School-Based Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program: A Longitudinal Cohort Study

Situation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of Freed Haliyas in Sudurpaschim Province of Nepal

Legal deserts report 2.0

Child labour and the impact of financial services on smallholder tea households in Malawi

Experiences of Ethiopian returnees in Saudi Arabia: Employment and unmet expectations

Insecure by design: Australia’s migration system and migrant workers’ job market experience

Global Justice: Using strategic litigation to combat forced labor

No Escape: Assessing the relationship between slavery-related abuse and internal displacement in Nigeria, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Does it do what it says on the tin? Fisheries and aquaculture certification, standards and ratings ecosystem

Labor recruitment and human trafficking: Analysis of a global trafficking survivor database

The modern slavery core outcome set

Impacts of GlobalConsent, a web-based social norms edutainment program, on sexually violent behavior and bystander behavior among university men in Vietnam: Randomized controlled trial

Harmful forms of child labour in India from a time-use perspective

Addressing exploitation of labour migrants in Southeast Asia: Beyond a counter-trafficking criminal justice response

Towards a responsible machine learning approach to identify forced labor in fisheries

Counter-trafficking monitoring and evaluation toolkit

In harm’s way: How systems fail human trafficking survivors

Impacts of a lack of legal advice on adults with lived experience of modern slavery

Global report on trafficking in persons 2022

Getting work: The role of labour intermediaries for workers in Nepal and the international ‘adult entertainment sector’

Do No Harm Guide for Frontline Responders: ASEAN Safeguarding the rights of Victims of Trafficking in Persons

Addressing vulnerability to modern slavery in a growing tide of migration

Fairtrade Risk Map

Gender impact investing & the rise of false solutions: An analysis for feminist movements

Broken Promises: Two years of corporate reporting under Australia’s Modern Slavery Act

Experiences of violence and harassment at work: A global first survey

Survivor-centred justice for gender-based violence in complex situations

What works to prevent violence against children online?

Using civil litigation to combat human trafficking federal human trafficking civil litigation

Conflict in Ukraine: Key evidence on risks of trafficking in persons and smuggling or migrants

Combating Cyber Violence against Women and Girls

Knowledge of and access to frontline workers among poor, rural households in Amhara region, Ethiopia: a mixed-methods study

Driving Force: Automotive Supply Chains and Forced Labor in the Uyghur Region

Safe consultations with survivors of violence against women and girls

Sexual Exploitation of Boys: India Report 2022

Convicted: How Corporations Exploit the Thirteenth Amendment’s Loophole for Profit

A mixed-methods, exploratory, quasi-experimental evaluation of a radio drama intervention to prevent age-disparate transactional sex in Tanzania

Global prevalence of physical and psychological child abuse during COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Ikea: subcontractors resort to forced labour in Belarus prisons

Public procurement measures to address modern slavery

The role of agents and brokers in facilitating Ethiopian women into domestic work in the Middle East

“If we complain, we are fired”

The social atrocity: Meta and the right to remedy for the Rohingya

Acknowledged but forgotten: The gender dimensions of sexual violence against migrant domestic workers in post-crisis Lebanon

Modern slavery and forced marriage: Examining the relationship

Measuring ‘felt respect’ for Dignity in service interactions: A new five-item survey measure performs well in three countries and three contexts

Changing climate, changing realities: Migration in the Sahel

‘It has destroyed me’: A legal advice system on the brink

The role of agents and brokers in facilitating Ethiopian women into domestic work in the Middle East

Disrupting harm in Indonesia: Evidence on online child sexual exploitation and abuse

Disrupting harm in Malaysia: Evidence on online child sexual exploitation and abuse

Disrupting harm in Cambodia: Evidence on online child sexual exploitation and abuse

Forced labour risks, remedy and changing regulation

Eliminating child labour: Essential for human development and ensuring child well-being

Out of the Shadows Index

Special Issue – Migration, Sexuality, and Gender Identity

Abuse by the system: Survivors of trafficking in immigration detention

Protecting Asian trafficking victims in Europe

Global estimates of modern slavery

Fake my catch: The unreliable traceability in our tuna cans

Do school feeding programmes reduce child labour? Evidence from Liberia

OHCHR Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China

Heavy rare earths supply chain risks: Illicit minerals from Myanmar are the world’s largest source of supply

Mapping of protection services for vulnerable people on the move, including victims of trafficking

A survivor-defined framework for economic empowerment: Findings from a Photovoice study with survivors of human trafficking and gender-based violence

Making It Count: Strengthening data and evidence to prevent and respond to violence against children in East Asia and the Pacific

A review of prevalence estimation methods for human trafficking populations

The involvement of Bangladeshi girls and women in sex work: Sex trafficking, victimhood, and agency

Modern slavery in global supply chains: The state of evidence for key government and private approaches

Are child domestic workers worse off than their peers? Comparing children in domestic work, child marriage, and kinship care with biological children of household heads: Evidence from Zimbabwe

What is the role of financial sanctions in tackling modern slavery and human trafficking?

Do school feeding programmes reduce child labour? Evidence from Liberia

“We work like robots”: Discrimination and exploitation of migrant workers in FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 hotels

Lived realities of sustained liberation for survivors of trafficking in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Built on repression: PVC building materials’ reliance on labor and environmental abuses in the Uyghur region

From fish to fishworker traceability in Thai fisheries reform

Mapping of slums and identifying children engaged in worst forms of child labour living in slums and working in neighbourhood areas

Are child domestic workers worse off than their peers? Comparing children in domestic work, child marriage, and kinship care with biological children of household heads: Evidence from Zimbabwe

An IOM perspective on human trafficking in Niger: Profiles, patterns, progress

Can cash transfers reduce child labor?

Alternative anti-trafficking action plan: A proposed model based on a labor approach to trafficking

Towards safer recruitment of Ethiopian women into domestic work abroad: Early findings from the Meneshachin ‘Our Departure’ qualitative study

Cambodia’s trafficked brides: The escalating phenomenon of forced marriage in China

Climate change, migration and vulnerability to trafficking

Economic shocks and human trafficking risks: Evidence from IOM’s victims of human trafficking database

External policy tools to address modern slavery and forced labour

Human trafficking in the Afghan context: Caught between a rock and a hard place?

Evidence from Japanese companies assessment on Human Rights Due Diligence

Trafficking in persons in the agriculture sector: Human rights due diligence and sustainable development

Preventing human trafficking of refugees from Ukraine

The ITSCI laundromat: How a due diligence scheme appears to launder conflict minerals

Are women not enslaved in Brazil? A data-driven analysis of gender dynamics in Brazilian antislavery efforts

Impact of Covid-19 on Indian fashion supply chains: Research summary

Spot fires in supply chains

Feminist and women’s movements in the context of ending violence against women and girls: Implications for funders and grant makers

Revealing global risks of labor abuse and illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing

Disclosure and help-seeking behaviors related to sexual and physical violence in childhood and adolescence: Results from the Namibia Violence Against Children and Youth Survey

A turning point in Uzbekistan’s cotton harvest

Mapping Rohingya movement: Collected data on the trafficking routes of a persecuted population

Valuing victims voices: A participatory action research project with victims of ‘seafood slavery’ for effective counter trafficking communication

‘They think that we’re machines’: Forced labour and other abuse of migrant workers in Qatar’s private security sector

“Heavy metal”: From abuse-ridden mines to global consumer goods, the journey of Brazilian iron

Attitudes, beliefs and normative influences linked to transactional sex: Insights from LINEA formative research in Brazil, Tanzania and Uganda

Optimizing screening and support services for gender-based violence and trafficking in person victims

Nationality and Borders Bill: Immigration outcomes for child victims of trafficking

Gender inequality and modern slavery: How to break the cycle of women and girls’ exploitation

Financing & genocide: Development finance and the crisis in the Uyghur region

Beyond compliance in the garment industry

Indebted before departure: Information arbitrage and financial exploitation by Philippine migration intermediaries

Disrupting harm in Thailand: Evidence on online child sexual exploitation and abuse

Prevention of adult sexual and labour exploitation in the UK: What does or could work?

Wage theft and pandemic profits: The right to a living wage for garment workers

Policy responses to technology-facilitated trafficking in human beings: Analysis of current approaches and considerations for moving forward

Cycles of exploitation: The links between children’s institutions and human trafficking

EXPOsed: Discrimination and forced labour practices at Expo 2020 Dubai

Closing the gap: Evidence for effective human rights due diligence from five years measuring company effort to address forced labour

Use of digital technology in the recruitment of migrant workers

Estimating young women working in Kathmandu’s adult entertainment sector: A hybrid application of Respondent Driven Sampling and Venue Site Sampling

Indicators of sex trafficking in online escort ads

Workers’ rights in crisis: Palestinian workers in Israel and the settlements

Identifying trafficking experience and health needs among African American male survival sex workers

Tackling child labor: An introduction for business leaders

A stitch in time saved none: How fashion brands fueled violence in the factory and beyond

Trouble brewing The need for transparency in tea supply chains

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

Migrant workers’ access to justice for wage theft: A global study of promising initiatives

Always left holding the bag the economic impacts of the covid-19 pandemic on cocoa farmers and children in Côte d’Ivoire

Violence and sexual and reproductive health service disruption among girls and young women during covid-19 pandemic in Nepal: A cross-sectional study using interactive voice response survey

Spotlight on labour migration in Asia: A factor analysis study

Child domestic work: Summary framing paper

Impact of the covid-19 pandemic on modern slavery

Hidden harm: Audit deception in apparel supply chains and the urgent case for reform

Transnational legal tactics for labour: How to make use of Corporate Accountability Mechanisms

Trauma-informed considerations for anti-trafficking efforts in the covid-19 environment, its aftermath, and in the context of possible future pandemics

Victims or suspects? Identifying and assisting potentially trafficked fishermen: A qualitative study with stakeholders and first responders in Thailand

The concept of ‘harbouring’ in the Trafficking in Persons Protocol

Laundering Cotton: How Xinjiang cotton is obscured in international supply chains

The Global Synthetic Dataset

Addressing consumer awareness and (in)action towards modern slavery

Corruption and contemporary forms of slavery: Examining relationships and addressing policy gaps

Combating forced and child labor of refugees in global supply chains the role of responsible sourcing

Child marriage and infant mortality: Causal evidence from Ethiopia

Human rights due diligence training facilitation guide

Providing services to survivors in counter trafficking projects: Learning from our actions

Underground lives: Forgotten children

2020 Findings on the worst forms of child labor

Evaluations of interventions with child domestic workers: A rapid systematic review

Covid-19 and child marriage: How covid-19’s impact on hunger and education is forcing children into marriage

Climate-induced migration and modern slavery: A toolkit for policy-makers

Advances in measurement: A scoping review of prior human trafficking prevalence studies and recommendations for future research

Accountability and remedy in global supply chains: Considerations for workers and unions

“I had nowhere to go” violence against women and girls during the covid-19 pandemic in Kenya

Anti-trafficking review, Issue 17

Precarity and the pandemic: A survey of wage issues and covid-19 impacts among migrant seafood workers in Thailand

Tied hands: Fact finding mission report on Harawa-Charawa

Money heist: Covid-19 wage theft in global garment supply chains

Ending child labour and promoting sustainable cocoa production in Côte d’ivoire and Ghana

Who do phone surveys miss, and how to reduce exclusion: recommendations from phone surveys in nine Indian states

Policy brief: Effectiveness of forced labour import bans

Uncertain Pathways: How gender shapes the experiences of children on the move

Indigenous peoples and the anti-trafficking sector’s blindspot

The Fashion Transparency Index 2021

Forced labour in the Malaysian medical gloves supply chain before and during the covid-19 pandemic: Evidence, scale and solutions

The covid-19 pandemic and workers in Cambodia

Checked out: Migrant worker abuse in Qatar’s World Cup luxury hotels

“I Must Work to Eat” Covid-19, Poverty, and Child Labor in Ghana, Nepal, and Uganda

Suitability of Measurement Tools for Assessing the Prevalence of Child Domestic Work: A Rapid Systematic Review

Commercial sexual exploitation of children in Nepal: shifting forms of abuse

2021 Trafficking in persons report

In broad daylight: Uyghur forced labour and global solar supply chains

2021 ITUC global rights index: The world’s worst countries for workers

Commercial contracts and sourcing

The effects of the covid-19 pandemic on trafficking in persons and responses to the challenges: A global study of emerging evidence

Married by exception: Child marriage policies in the Middle East and North Africa

The health impacts of hazardous chemical exposures among child labourers in low and middle income countries

Migrant workers’ rights in oil palm estates in Malaysia

Child labour: Global estimates 2020, trends and the road forward

Spinning around workers’ rights: International companies linked to forced labour in Tamil Nadu spinning mills

Forced labour at sea: The case of Indonesian migrant fishers

AI against modern slavery: Digital insights into modern slavery reporting – challenges and opportunities

Trafficking victim identification: A practitioner guide

2021 Apparel and footwear benchmark report

Anti-Trafficking Review: Issue 16

Making justice more survivor-centric: Applying alternative justice models to human trafficking in South East Asia

Sexual exploitation of boys: Thailand report

Covid-19: A threat to progress against child marriage

Due diligence and transparency legislation

State of compliance with decent work principles in Pakistan’s brick kiln sector

Fired, then robbed: Fashion brands’ complicity in wage theft during covid-19

Mind the gap: Migrant workers need respect for rights, not commitments on paper

Assessing labor risk for workers migrating from the Philippines to Europe

Experts by experience: Conducting feminist participatory action research with workers in high risk sectors

They snatched from me my own cry: The interplay of social norms and stigma in relation to human trafficking in Ethiopia

Organizing informal workers to win: Lessons from informal domestic and construction workers in six countries

A practitioners guide to the ethical conduct of research on child marriage in humanitarian settings

Survivors’ perspectives on successful reintegration after trafficking

20 years of the evidence base on what works to prevent child marriage: A systematic review

All at sea: An evaluation of company efforts to address modern slavery in Pacific supply chains of canned tuna

Reporting on forced labour and fair recruitment: An ILO toolkit for journalists in Vietnam

The impact of covid-19 on children and adolescents: Early evidence in India

UNODC Toolkit for mainstreaming human rights and gender equality into criminal justice interventions to address trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants

Covid-19 and human rights: Assessing the private sector’s response to the pandemic across five sectors

Cost of migration survey 2020

Human trafficking corridors in Canada

Report on employment relationship survey in the brick industry in Nepal

Warning: May contain child labour – Risky Canadian grocery report

Gendered transitions to adulthood in Ethiopia

The torture in my mind: The right to mental health for Rohingya survivors of genocide in Myanmar and Bangladesh

Raising her voice: Agency and aspirations of adolescent girls on marriage – Evidence from Jharkhand, India

Developing freedom: The sustainable development case for ending modern slavery, forced labour and human trafficking

Interventions for reducing violence against children: An evidence and gap map in low-and middle-income countries

Global report on trafficking in persons 2020

Satellites can reveal global extent of forced labor in the world’s fishing fleet

Developing national action plans on forced labour: Guidance manual

Female victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation as defendants: A case law analysis

How to build cross-sectoral collaboration to protect workers in the age of covid-19

Empowerment and employment of survivors of human trafficking: A business guide

National action plan to combat modern slavery 2020-25

The market-reach of pandemics: Evidence from female workers in Ethiopia’s ready-made garment industry

Transparency assessment: Examining the transparency journey for the Bangladesh apparel sector

Hidden and vulnerable: The impact of covid-19 on child, forced and bonded labor

Global guidelines on the economic reintegration of victims of forced labour through lifelong learning and skills development approaches

Hunger in the apparel supply chain: Survey findings on workers’ access to nutrition during covid-19

The cost of contagion: The human rights impacts of covid-19 on migrant workers in the Gulf

Covid-19 and food systems in the Indo-Pacific

Child trafficking and unsafe migration in Kenya in the time of covid-19, and why collective data is key to its prevention

Aftershock: Abuse, exploitation and human trafficking in the wake of covid-19

Out of sight: A call for transparency from field to fabric

NORC final report: Assessing progress in reducing child labor in cocoa production in cocoa growing areas of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana

Retired at eighteen: Political economy of child labour in the textiles and allied industries in India

Design for freedom: A call to action for practicing professionals within the ecosystem of the built environment

Behind closed doors: Exposing migrant care worker exploitation during covid-19

“Why do you want to rest?”: Ongoing abuse of domestic workers in Qatar

International migration outlook 2020

Migration survey sampling: a pragmatic ‘how-to’ guide

2020 List of goods produced by child labor or forced labor

Stacked odds: How lifelong inequality shapes women and girls’ experience of modern slavery

Gender bias in agricultural child labor

The outlaw ocean: An exploration of policy solutions to address illegal fishing and forced labor in the seafood industry

Anti-trafficking Review No. 15 (2020): Special Issue – Everyday abuse in the global economy

Interlinkages between trafficking in persons and marriage

Cruel outcomes: How weak corporate governance and internal controls in the palm oil industry allow abuse of foreign and local workers and how ESG investment fails to recognise these issues

Sustainability and justice on the high seas

Judicial harassment against labor rights activists: An analysis

Un(der)paid in the pandemic: An estimate of what the garment industry owes its workers

“How can we work without wages?”: Salary abuses facing migrant workers ahead of Qatar’s FIFA World Cup 2022

Covid-19 and child labour: A time of crisis, a time to act

Worked to debt: Over-indebtedness in Cambodia’s garment sector

It still happens here: Fighting UK slavery in the 2020s

Agent-based modeling for migration and modern slavery research: a systematic review

Trafficking in persons report, 20th edition

ITUC Global rights index 2020: The world’s worst countries for workers

Out of time: As families’ incomes plummet, millions more children go hungry and are forced to work and beg

Children’s rights in the garment and footwear supply chain: A practical tool for integrating children’s rights into responsible sourcing frameworks

Against my will: Defying the practices that harm women and girls and undermine equality

Information and communications technology: Benchmark findings report

Impacts of the covid-19 pandemic on small-scale producers and workers: Perspectives from Thailand’s seafood supply chain

At risk of forced labour? An exploratory study into working conditions in the textile & apparel sector in the National Capital Region, India

Guidance: Addressing emerging human trafficking trends and consequences of the covid-19 pandemic

Situational assessment of labor migrants in Asia: Needs and knowledge during covid-19

Falling through the net: A survey of basic labour rights among migrants working in Thailand’s fishing sector

Union busting & unfair dismissals: Garment workers during covid-19

From risk to resilience: A good practice guide for food retailers addressing human rights in their supply chains

Not fit-for-purpose: The grand experiment of multi-stakeholder initiatives in corporate accountability, human rights and global governance

Save our education: Protect every child’s right to learn in the covid-19 response and recovery

C19 Impact analysis: Business and human rights/access to remedy in Asia – Summary findings

Measuring modern slavery: Law, human rights, and new forms of data

The emperor has no clothes: Garment supply chains in the time of pandemic

Violence against women and girls: Data collection during covid-19

What works: Lessons in the use of cash transfers

Covid-19 crisis response: Rapid assessment report

Online sexual exploitation of children in the Philippines: Analysis and recommendations for governments, industry, and civil society

Meneshachin scoping study: A global synthesis and analysis of responsible recruitment initiatives targeting low-wage, migrant workers

Leaving no-one behind: Guidance for policymakers, donors and business leaders to ensure that responses to covid-19 reach victims of modern slavery and people vulnerable to slavery

Impact of the covid-19 pandemic on family planning and ending gender based violence, female genital mutilation and child marriage

Impact of the covid-19 pandemic on trafficking in persons

Anti-Trafficking Review: Issue 14, April 2020

Unlocking the urban: Reimagining migrant lives in cities post covid-19

Abandoned? The impact of covid-19 on workers and businesses at the bottom of global garment supply chains

Protecting people in a pandemic

The impact of covid-19 on modern slavery

The use of Bayesian networks for realist evaluation of complex interventions: evidence for prevention of human trafficking

Choppy waters: Forced labour and illegal fishing in Taiwan’s distant water fisheries

Information and decision-making among Sub-Saharan African migrants traveling to Europe through Libya

Recruitment fees and related costs: What migrant workers from Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and Myanmar pay to work in Thailand

Worker-driven social responsibility: Exploring a new model for tackling labour abuse in supply chains

Protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) during covid-19 response

Pandemics and violence against women and children

ILO monitor: Covid-19 and the world of work

IOM Handbook on protection and assistance for migrants vulnerable to violence, exploitation and abuse

Modern slavery statements: A framework for evaluation

Trafficking in Thailand: The demand fuels child trafficking for sexual purposes

How do trafficking survivors cope? Identifying the general and spiritual coping strategies of men trafficked into the United States

Human trafficking and risky migration routes data collection: A case study from Kenya

Endline research findings on fishers and seafood workers in Thailand

Combatting human trafficking since Palermo: What do we know about what works?

Uyghurs for sale

Murky waters: A qualitative assessment of modern slavery in the Pacific region

Voices of the invisible citizens: A rapid assessment on the impact of covid-19 lockdown on internal migrant workers

Time to care: Unpaid and underpaid care work and the global inequality crisis

Sexual exploitation of children in Nepal

World Report 2020: Qatar, events of 2019

“I Feel Like We Are People Who Have Never Known Each Other Before”: The Experiences of Survivors of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation Transitioning From Shelters to Life in the Community

Litigating peacekeeper child sexual abuse

Algorithmic harms to workers in the platform economy: The case of Uber

Profit making disguised as rehabilitation: The biopolitics of Homo Sacer in China’s custody education program for sex workers

Does Child Marriage Matter for Growth?

Sewing the pieces together: Towards an EU strategy for fair and sustainable textiles

Work-environmental determinants of mass fainting illness among textile factory workers

Analyzing and improving national and local child protection data in Nepal: A mixed methods study using 2014 multiple indicator cluster survey (MICS) data and interviews with 18 organizations

Qualitative research toolkit to explore child marriage dynamics and how to fast-track prevention

Follow the money: Tactics, dependencies and shifting relations in migration financing on the Ethiopia-South Africa migration corridor

Fashion’s next trend: Accelerating supply chain transparency in the garment and footwear industry

Rajasthan: Child marriage and teenage pregnancy

Public attitudes towards migrant workers in Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand

Photographing modern slavery: recommendations for responsible practice

Seabound: The journey to modern slavery on the high seas

Corporate human rights benchmark: 2019 Key findings

Investor snapshot: Forced labor in forestry

Evaluation of a film-based intervention to empower girls and young women in Tamil Nadu

The trafficking of girls and young women: Evidence for prevention and assistance

Lived experience of migrant women: Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait

Beyond compliance in the hotel sector: A review of UK Modern Slavery Act statements

Tracking progress: Assessing business responses to forced labour and human trafficking in the Thai seafood industry

Preventing child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) through open, distance and technology-based education in Bangladesh, Mozambique, Pakistan and Tanzania

A review of the criminalisation of paying for sexual services in Northern Ireland

Citizen engagement in public services in low and middle income countries: A mixed-methods systematic review of participation, inclusion, transparency and accountability initiatives

Status of corporate responsibility in India, 2019

Stigma and acceptance of Sierra Leone’s child soldiers: A prospective longitudinal study of adult mental health and social functioning

A blueprint for mobilising finance against slavery and trafficking

Special issue: Public perceptions and responses to human trafficking

Unlocking what works: How community-based interventions are ending bonded labour in India

A review of social safety-net programmes to make them more responsive to the needs of child labour in Bangladesh

Decent work and economic growth in the South India garment industry

Survey on child labour in agriculture in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon: The case of Syrian refugees

Reclaiming migrant women’s narratives: A feminist participatory action research project on ‘safe and fair’ migration in Asia

Better Buying index report, 2019: Purchasing practices performance in apparel, footwear, and household textile supply chains

“You pray for death”: Trafficking of women and girls in Nigeria

Gender and forced labour: Understanding the links in global cocoa supply chains

Effect of cropland and livestock ownership on child labour in eastern Ethiopia: empirical examination of the Wealth Paradox

Ending child labour, forced labour and human trafficking in global supply chains

Ethical recruitment: translating policy into practice

Workers’ rights in supermarket supply chains: new evidence on the need for action

Rohingya refugees’ perspectives on their displacement in Bangladesh

Review of models of care for trafficking survivors in Thailand

Modern slavery data stories

Evaluation of the electronic payment system in the Thai fishing industry

Agriculture and Modern Slavery Act Reporting: Increasing engagement but poor quality from a high risk sector

Estimating the economic incentives necessary for eliminating child labor in Ghanian cocoa production

Working and Living Conditions of Low-Income Migrant Workers in the Hospitality and Construction Sectors in Qatar

2019 ITUC Global Rights Index: The World’s Worst Countries for Workers

He Said, She Said: Child Labor Measurement in Ethiopia

‘Between Two Fires’: Understanding vulnerabilities and the support needs of people from Albania, Vietnam and Nigeria who have experienced human trafficking into the UK

Sexual violence at each stage of human trafficking cycle and associated factors: a retrospective cohort study on Ethiopian female returnees via three major trafficking corridors

The Modern Slavery (Victim Support) Bill: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

Measurement Action Freedom: An independent assessment of government progress towards achieving UN sustainable Development Goal 8.7

Modern slavery and homelessness

Protecting migrant workers from exploitation in the EU: workers’ perspectives

Effects of parent-child relationships on child marriage of girls in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam: Evidence from a prospective cohort

Empowering women migrant workers from South Asia: Toolkit for gender-responsive employment and recruitment

Evaluation of the early impacts of the Better Cotton Initiative on smallholder cotton producers in Kurnool District, India

Demanding justice: Women migrant workers fighting gender-based violence

Tackling Modern Slavery: Problems and Possibilities

Where is the money? How the humanitarian system is failing its commitments to end violence against women and girls

The Freedom Fund’s Hotspot Model

Independent Review of the Modern Slavery Act 2015: Final Report

United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking Annual Report