Tools & Guidance
- Verité, An Ethical Framework for Cross-Border Labor Recruitment
- Verité, eLearning Course on Forced Labor
- Verité, Fair Hiring Toolkit
- Verité, Fair Hiring Framework
- Verité and the United Nations Global Compact, Addressing the Retention of Identity Documents
- Verité and the United Nations Global Compact, Eliminating Recruitment Fees Charged to Migrant Workers
- American University Washington College of Law, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, and Global Workers Justice Alliance, Money Transfers to Mexico: A Manual Examining the Transfer of Funds for U.S. Advocates to Clients in Mexico, 2nd Edition
- Alliance of Asian Associations of Overseas Employment Service Providers, Commitment to Action in Pursuit of Ethical Recruitment
- Business for Social Responsibility, Migrant Worker Management Toolkit: A Global Framework
- Business for Social Responsibility, International Labor Migration: A Responsible Role for Business, 2008.
- Ciett, Code of Conduct
- Centro de los Derechos del Migrantes, Contratados
- European Commission, Employment & Recruitment Agencies Sector Guide on Implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
- IHRB, Dhaka Principles for Migration with Dignity
- IHRB, Fees and IDs: Tackling Recruitment Fees and Confiscation of Workers’ Passports, 2013.
- International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF), Business and Migration: From Risk to Opportunity, 2010.
- International Labor Organization, Fair Migration: Setting an ILO Agenda
- International Labor Organization, Guide to Private Employment Agencies: Regulation, Monitoring and Enforcement, 2007.
- International Tourism Partnership, Guidelines for Checking Recruitment Agencies
- Polaris, Global Modern Slavery Directory
- Stronger Together, Tackling Hidden Third Party Labour Exploitation
- UN Women, Covenant of Ethical Conduct and Good Practices of Overseas Employment Service Providers
- UNI Global Union & Ciett, Memorandum of Understanding between Ciett Corporate Members and UNI Global Union on Temporary Agency Work
- Vietnam Association of Manpower Supply (VAMAS), Code of Conduct Applied to Vietnamese Enterprises Sending Workers for Overseas Employment
Research & Reports
- Verité, Help Wanted: Hiring, Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery in the Global Economy, 2010.
- Verité, Indian Workers in Domestic Textile Production and Middle-East Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Construction, 2010.
- Verité, Vulnerability to Broker-Related Forced Labor among Migrant Workers in Information Technology Manufacturing in Taiwan and Malaysia, 2010.
- Verité, Immigrant Workers in US Agriculture: The Role of Labor Brokers in Vulnerability to Forced Labor, 2010.
- Migration Policy Institute (MPI), What we know about Regulating the Recruitment of Migrant Workers, 2013.
- ILO, Private Employment Agencies, Temporary Agency Workers and their Contribution to the Labour Market, 2009.
- ILRWG, The American Dream up for Sale: A Blueprint for Ending International Labour Recruitment Abuse, 2013.
- International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and MPI, Issue in Brief: Regulating Private Recruitment in the Asia-Middle East Labour Migration Corridor, 2013
- Fay Faraday, Metcalf Foundation, Profiting from the Precarious: How Recruitment Practices Exploit Migrant Workers, 2013.
- Patricia Pittman, Carolina Herrera, Joanne Spetz, and Catherine R. Davis, Immigration and Contract Problems Experienced by Foreign-Educated Nurses (FENs)
- Patricia M. Pittman, Amanda I. Folsom, and Emily Bass, U.S.-Based Recruitment of Foreign-Educated Nurses: Implications of an Emerging Industry
- United States Government Accountability Office (GAO), Human Trafficking: Oversight of Contractors' Use of Foreign Workers in High-Risk Environments Needs to be Strengthened, November 2014.
- UNIAP, Exploitation of Cambodian Men at Sea: Facts about the Trafficking of Cambodian Men onto Thai Fishing Boats, 2009.
- UNIAP, Recruitment Agencies and the Employment of Cambodian Domestic Workers in Malaysia, 2011.
Resources
- Alliance for Ethical International Recruitment Practices
- Association of Labor Providers (UK)
- Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc.
- FSI Worldwide
- Global Forum on Migration and Development
- Global Workers Justice Alliance - Visa Pages
- International Confederation of Private Employment Agencies
- IHRB Mega Sporting Events
- ILO Special Action Program to Combat Forced Labor
- ILO Decent Work Across Borders Project
- ILO Triangle Project
- ILO Work in Freedom Project
- International Labor Recruitment Working Group (ILRWG)
- Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB)
- Staff Wanted Initiative
- Stronger Together
- United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking