Cover -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The concept of forced labour:Emerging issues -- Forced labour: The ILO definition -- The concept and definition of human trafficking -- Forced labour, modern slavery and vulnerability to exploitation: Conceptual and policy challenges -- Chapter 2. Forced labour: Capturing the trends -- Introduction -- Improving the knowledge base:Data collection and analysis -- Pilot survey in the Republic of Moldova -- Regional perspectives -- Africa -- Asia -- Americas -- Europe and Central Asia -- Middle East -- Thematic concerns -- Contract labour and recruitment -- Seafarers and fishers -- Domestic workers -- The economics of forced labour: Measuring the costs of coercion -- Chapter 3. National action against forced labour: The role of governments -- Introduction -- Approaches to law andpolicy-making on forced labour -- Prosecutions and law enforcement against forced labour -- National policies, plans of action and coordination mechanisms -- Regional initiatives -- Challenges for labour administration and labour inspection -- Lessons of experience -- Chapter 4. Forced labour and the private economy: Challenges for employers'and workers' organizations -- Introduction -- The role of employers' organizations -- The issues -- Broad principles and general guidance -- Initiatives of national employers' organizations -- Measures and responsesof individual companies -- Auditing of forced labour -- The role and experience of trade unions -- A global trade union alliance:The process -- An action plan for a global trade union alliance: Main areas of activity -- Regional planning and capacity building -- Initiatives by the Global Union federations -- National action: Guidance and toolkits -- Information campaigns -- Organizing migrantsand supporting their claims.

Detection and documentation of forced labour cases -- Cooperation between trade unions in different countries -- Cooperation with NGOs and civil society -- The challenges ahead -- Combining the efforts:The importance of multistake holder initiatives -- Chapter 5. Combating forced labour through technical cooperation: Achievements and challenges -- Introduction -- Raising global pressure for policy change: Getting the message out -- Understanding the problems and solutions: Generating and sharing knowledge -- Building national consensus: The programme and policy frameworks -- Capacity building: From training to action -- Building partnerships -- From prevention to release and rehabilitation: Defining the role of ILO projects -- The way forward: Leading a global alliance against forced labour -- Chapter 6. A global action plan against forced labour -- 1. Global issues and approaches -- Data collection and research -- Raising global awareness -- Improving law enforcementand labour justice responses -- Strengthening a workers' and business allianceagainst forced labour and trafficking -- 2. Regional issues and priorities -- Expanding the knowledge basein developing countries:Applied research -- Forced labour and povertyreduction in developing countries:A focus on prevention -- Forced labour, migrant and contractworkers: Cooperation between senderand destination countries -- Issues for industrialized countries -- Boxes -- Box 2.1 The Delphi method: Building expert consensus on indicators of human trafficking -- Box 2.2 Measuring forced labour: The need for representative samples -- Box 2.3 Forced labour, trafficking and labour exploitation in Zambia -- Box 2.4 Improved understanding of forced labour in Brazil -- Box 2.5 Lured into bondage: A growing back channel of global trade tricks millions into forced labour(from Newsweek, 15 April 2008).

Box 2.6 Guidelines under COMMIT for the Greater Mekong subregionFees for recruitment services -- Box 2.7 Estimating the costs of coercion: The methodology -- Box 3.1 Peru: Institutionalizing the combat against forced labour -- Box 3.2 Implementing the National Action Plan against Human Trafficking in Ukraine:The role of labour market actors -- Box 3.3 Guidelines for migrant recruitment policy and practice in the Greater Mekong subregion -- Box 4.1 Principles for business leaders to combat forced labour and trafficking -- Box 4.2 Recommendations of the Atlanta meeting on engaging US business to address forced labour -- Box 4.3 Proposing a leadership role for employers' organizations in the fight against forced labour: Recommendations from a regional workshop addressed at employers' organizationsand business in Asia, jointly convened by the IOE and the ILO -- Box 4.4 Action points adopted at the ITUC General Council, December 2007 -- Box 4.5 Multi-stakeholder initiatives against forced labour in Brazil -- Box 5.1 The case of Myanmar -- Tables -- Table 2.1. Trafficked persons in Ukraine: Forms of exploitation -- Table 2.2. Estimating the total cost of coercion (in US).