The human and business risks associated with Qatar’s hosting of the World Cup – the “Mega-Sporting Effect” – stem from the influx of an estimated 500,000 to 1 million foreign workers who will be called upon to build the infrastructure for the event. Multinational companies and local enterprises engaged in building the infrastructure for the World Cup and executing the actual event in 2022 need to understand the risks to their business if they are implicated in migrant worker abuses.
Until December 2000, the term “trafficking in persons” was not defined in international law, despite its incorporation in several international legal instruments.The long-standing failure to develop an agreed-upon definition of trafficking in pe...Read More
The data in this report represents signals and cases from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017 and is accurate as of July 11, 2018. Cases of trafficking may be ongoing or new information may be revealed to the National Hotline over time. Conseq...Read More
This report presents the findings from the Global Business of Forced Labour project. The project investigates the business models of forced labour in global agricultural supply chains. Over two years the project systematically mapped the business ...Read More
This report illustrates an ILO project in Ghana, in which ILO partnered with the General Agricultural Workers’ Union (GAWU) of Ghana and the Inland Canoe Fishers’ Association to combat child labour throughout the fish supply chain. ...Read More
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