Thematic Focus

Ensuring gender equality in recruitment

Discover a repository of resources at the intersection of gender and recruitment, within and across international borders, such as policy and research briefs, regional and country reports, latest data, upcoming events and news on the topic.

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Business and private sector engagement

Fair recruitment helps to create decent work, provides new job opportunities, and improves labour market functioning. It also helps to prevent labour and human rights violations, including discrimination, which occur during the recruitment process that can lead to situations of forced labour such as deception, illegal retention of documents, and worker debt resulting from the payment of recruitment fees and related costs, among others.

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Empowering and protecting workers

Explore and exchange on how workers organizations can enhance their action to build migrant workers power, monitor recruitment practices, tackle abuses and advocate for improved policies and regulations.

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Promoting Labour Inspection’s role on recruitment

Labour inspectorates can play a critical monitoring and enforcement role on fair recruitment. Tools, guidance and peer to peer exchange and support are needed to enhance their capacities to address recruitment related challenges.

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Innovating for fair recruitment: harnessing the potential of digitalization

Digital applications, virtual gaming, behavioral insights, AI powered chat-bots… all of these are innovative approaches that stakeholders can leverage to improve recruitment processes and promote fair practices, facilitate safe and regular migration, and prevent risks of forced labour and other abuses to decent work.

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Access to Justice

The recruitment of migrant workers should take place in a way that respects, protects and fulfils internationally recognised human rights. When these rights are violated, workers irrespective of their legal status, gender, religion ethnicity, caste or any other social or economic considerations should have access to appropriate and effective remedies. Migrant workers can face a number of obstacles securing remedies for recruitment abuses even when, in principle, their legal rights are established in law.

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Latest News

Ghana Advances Fair Recruitment Agenda with FAIR III Workshop and PAC Deliberations

On 4 December 2025, the ILO convened a validation workshop and Project Advisory Committee (PAC) meeting in Accra…

Ghanaian Journalism Students Honoured for Contributions to Regional Labour Migration Anthology

On 3 December 2025, at the University of Media, Arts and Communication (UniMAC) in Accra, an ILO-UniMAC…

Clôture du projet FAIR III en Côte d'Ivoire: un double atelier décisif pour la protection des travailleurs migrants

Les 1er et 2 décembre 2025 à Abidjan, l'OIT a réuni ses partenaires institutionnels, techniques et financiers…

ILO and IGAD Strengthen Regional Capacity for Rights-Based Labour Migration Governance

The ILO’s Better Regional Migration Management (BRMM) Programme and the Free…

Strengthening Africa’s Unity for Labour Migration and Regional Integration

Regional trade-union leaders from East, South, and West Africa gathered in Addis…

Awareness Workshops on Migrant Workers’ Rights Launched in Somalia

Bareedo Platform Somalia, with support from the ILO through the

Latest Resources

Migration, travail et expériences vécues entre la Côte d’Ivoire et la Tunisie: Reportages transfrontaliers d’élèves en journalisme

Glossaire sur la migration destiné aux médias : Recrutement équitable et travail forcé - Côte d’Ivoire

Reportages sur le travail forcé et recrutement équitable : Un guide pratique de l’OIT pour les journalistes en Côte d’Ivoire

Media-friendly glossary on migration: Fair recruitment and forced labour - Ghana edition

Reporting on forced labour and fair recruitment: An ILO toolkit for journalists in Ghana

Media anthology in the Ghana-Nigeria labour migration corridor

Ghana: Country profile and national roadmap: Analysis of recruitment policy, processes and practices, an action plan for fair recruitment

ILO indicators of forced labour - 2025 revised edition

Latest Events

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Establishing Fair Recruitment Processes

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Training for KAPEA Members on Fair Recruitment

In person training

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