ILO to launch report on profits of forced labour

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is to launch a new report, Profits and Poverty: The Economics of Forced Labour, on May 20.

The study investigates the underlying factors that drive forced labour, of which a major one is illegal profits. Figures will include a breakdown of profits by area of forced labour and by region, according to a release.

The report will also provide updates to data included in the 2009 Cost of Coercion report, as well as the global estimate of persons in forced labour.

A press briefing by Corinne Vargha, ILO’s Chief, Fundamental Principles and rights at Work Branch and Beate Andrees, Head of the ILO Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour, will be held on May 19 at press room at the Palais des Nations.

-BSS