{"id":17006,"date":"2026-05-16T11:47:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=17006"},"modified":"2026-05-16T11:47:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:47:22","slug":"ilo-warns-of-rising-forced-labor-and-worker-exploitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=17006","title":{"rendered":"ILO Warns of Rising Forced Labor and Worker Exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-section-id=\"1e3x7xh\" data-start=\"2035\" data-end=\"2071\"><span role=\"text\"><strong data-start=\"2039\" data-end=\"2069\">Geneva, Switzerland (HRNW)- <\/strong><\/span>On <strong data-start=\"2137\" data-end=\"2152\">16 May 2026<\/strong>, the International Labour Organization (ILO) warned that forced labor and worker exploitation are increasing globally.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2273\" data-end=\"2528\">The report stated that economic hardships and illegal recruitment systems are pushing millions into inhumane working conditions. The ILO called for stronger labor protections, transparent employment systems, and strict enforcement of workers\u2019 rights laws.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2530\" data-end=\"2667\"><strong data-start=\"2530\" data-end=\"2549\">Support Appeal:<\/strong><br data-start=\"2549\" data-end=\"2552\" \/>Support the world\u2019s 1st Human Rights News Portal HRNW in its noble mission:<br data-start=\"2627\" data-end=\"2630\" \/><a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?page_id=1083\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"2630\" data-end=\"2665\">https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?page_id=1083<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 data-section-id=\"1s0lqpm\" data-start=\"2674\" data-end=\"2706\"><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva, Switzerland (HRNW)- On 16 May 2026, the International Labour Organization (ILO) warned that forced labor and worker exploitation are increasing globally. The report stated that economic hardships and illegal recruitment systems are pushing millions into inhumane working conditions. The ILO called for stronger labor protections, transparent employment systems, and strict enforcement of workers\u2019 rights&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1187,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-united-nations","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17008,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17006\/revisions\/17008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}