Labour and Private Sector

Publication

Blood Bricks: untold stories of modern slavery and climate change from Cambodia

Blood Bricks is a research project (2017-2019) undertaken by Royal Holloway, University of London, and funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council and Department for International Development (ESRC-DFID) Development Frontiers Research Fund.

• English

Policy Brief

Briefing Note on Draft Law on Vietnamese Workers Working Abroad Under Contract of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Briefing note outlining the relevant international, regional and national legal frameworks on Trafficking in Persons and recommended changes to the Draft Law 72 on Vietnamese Workers Working Abroad Under Contract.

• English
• Vietnamese

Law & Agreements

Briefing Note on Human Trafficking Implications of Draft Lao Agreement 43

The ASEAN-Australia Counter Trafficking program had the opportunity to review the Draft Agreement on the Establishment and Management of the Employment Service Enterprise of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Agreement 43), Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare Lao PDR.

• English

Report

Human trafficking and forced labour in Cambodia’s cyber-scam industry

• English

Report

In-Country Recruitment of Foreign Migrant Workers and Risks of Forced Labour and Human Trafficking in Thailand

• English

Policy Brief

Labour migrants’ vulnerability to human trafficking and labour exploitation in Southeast Asia: An analysis of Thailand

• English
• Thai

Toolkits

Toolkit: Implementing Ethical Standards in the In-Country Recruitment of Migrant Workers in Thailand

• English
• Thai

Video

Video – Wage theft and forced labour among migrant workers

• English

Vietnam Trafficking in Persons Journal 2021

The Vietnam Trafficking in Persons Journal 2021 was prepared by the Hanoi Procuratorate University with contributions from national and regional experts in the field, and supported by the ASEAN-Australia Counter Trafficking program.

• English
• Vietnamese

Policy Brief

Vulnerability, human trafficking and COVID-19

COVID-19 does not discriminate, however those most a risk of contracting COVID-19 are the most vulnerable. This paper includes good responses from ASEAN Member States and provides policy recommendations to ensure those vulnerable to trafficking are protected.

• English
• Lao

Report

Wage theft and forced labour among migrant workers in Southeast Asia: Impact of COVID-19 and policy responses

This report provides the linkages between wage theft and forced labour in labour migration within ASEAN, and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on this phenomenon.

• English