What is Labor Trafficking?

Author(s): IRC Anti-Trafficking Response
Date: 2025
Topic(s): Introduction to Human Trafficking, Labor Trafficking

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References

U.S. Department of State (2025). Understanding Human Trafficking.

Polaris (2025). Recognizing Labor Trafficking.

GRETA (2024). The 14th Report. GRETA. Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings. Council of Europe.

UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols.

Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000.

UNODC (2024). Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2024.

ILO Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No.29).

ILO, IOM, Walk Free (2022). Global Estimates of Modern Slavery. Forced Labour and Forced Marriage.

ILO, ILO Monitor on the world of work. Ninth edition, 2022.

ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182).

The Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative (CTDC) (2025).