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Japan’s Technical Intern Training Programme - Learning the Hard Way?
In September 2017, 37 member states endorsed an appeal during the UN General Assembly for urgent action on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8.7. This is the target that advocates immediate progress to eradicate human trafficking, forced labour,...
16 October 2017 | Commentary
Commentary by Takeshi Hayakawa, IHRB Visiting Researcher 2016 Jon Barnes, Independent Researcher; Research Fellow, IHRB