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

African trade unions advance collective action for Fair Recruitment of migrant workers

The African Trade Union Migration Network (ATUMNET), with the support of the…

Journée de sensibilisation des jeunes footballeurs sur la migration régulière

Le mercredi 18 juin 2025 à l’agora d’Abobo, l’OIT a soutenu une activité de sensibilisation des jeunes footballeurs sur…

Fair recruitment of migrant workers with disabilities: Key takeaways from ILO webinar

On June 23, 2025, the ILO and ITC- ILO jointly hosted a webinar on the fair recruitment…

Renforcer le rôle des médias dans la promotion du travail décent : retour sur la deuxième édition du Café Média à Yamoussoukro

La deuxième édition du Café Média s’est tenue en avril 2025 à Yamoussoukro (Côte D'Ivoire) , réunissant plus de 30…

Empowering African labour attachés to better protect migrant workers in the Arab States

A milestone training programme was held in Doha (Qatar) between the 14 and 17 of April…

Latest Resources

Ruta para la contratación de personas migrantes, solicitantes de refugio y refugiadas en el Perú

Enquête sur le coût de recrutement des travailleurs migrants internationaux et de retour au Maroc

Promising practices for fair recruitment in Bangladesh: Digitised management of recruitment agencies

Promising practices for fair recruitment in Nepal: Digitisation of labour migration processes for increased harmonization and oversight

Recruitment fees and related costs at a glance

Executive Summary - Global study on recruitment fees and related costs: Second edition

Global study on recruitment fees and related costs: Second Edition

Fair recruitment Roadmap: A guide for national action

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