Forced Labour
Global Trade Union Alliance to Combat Forced Labour and Trafficking
The Second Global Report under the Follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work presented to the International Labour Conference in June 2005 states that globally at least 12.3 million people are victims of forced labour, 2.45 million of whom are concurrently victims of trafficking. In industrialised countries, transition countries, the Middle East and the North Africa Region, the proportion of people suffering from both types of abuse simultaneously adds up to more than 75 per cent. In forced commercial sexual exploitation, accounting for a minimum of 1.4 million cases worldwide, 98 per cent of victims are women and girls.
The ILO Governing Body therefore decided to approve an action plan to build and consolidate A global Alliance against Forced Labour, aimed at eradicating all forms of forced labour by the year 2015. Within this framework the ITUC - in close cooperation with the ILO’s Bureau of Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV) and Special Action Programme on Forced Labour (SAP-FL) - is building a Global Trade Union Alliance to Combat Forced Labour and Trafficking.