Profits and Poverty: The Economics of Forced Labour
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Global launch of a new ILO report, which estimates the profits generated from forced labour in the world today. These profits reflect the wages effectively stolen from the pockets of workers by the perpetrators of forced labour through their coercive practices.
Understanding and addressing these illicit profits is critical to achieve progress in the fight against forced labour.
Opening Remarks
Bernd Lange
Member of the European Parliament, Member of the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade
European Parliament
Manuela Tomei
Assistant Director General, Governance, Rights and Dialogue
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Pierre-Yves Dermagne
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy and Employment, Belgium
Guests
Valdis Dombrovskis
Executive Vice-President of the European Commission
European Commission
Michaëlle De Cock
Head of Research and Evaluation Unit
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Francesca Francavilla
Senior Economist
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Panelists
Diane Schmitt
European Union Anti-Trafficking Coordinator
European Commission
Renate Hornung-Draus
Vice-President to the ILO, Germany
International Organisation of Employers (IOE)
Esther Lynch
General Secretary, European Trade Union Confederation
Moderator
Lieve Verboven
Director of the ILO Office for the European Union and the Benelux countries
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Closing remarks
Anousheh Karvar
Government delegate to the ILO, France
Bernd Lange
Member of the European Parliament, Member of the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade
European Parliament