The ITF [International Transport Workers' Federation] and its unions have been advocating this week [at the UN Forum] for governments to put access to remedy at the centre of their efforts to give justice to victims of human trafficking...

Trade unions would like to see more legislation like the US Trafficking Victims Protection Act, which broadly authorises victims of human trafficking to pursue a remedy against whoever knowingly benefits from participation in an act of trafficking or forced labour.

New legislation should also ensure that perpetrators of forced labour offences should be held to account in the courts of the company’s home jurisdiction, regardless of where the crimes were committed...

Addressing the role of trade unions in helping workers access remedies, [ITF] said that transport workers need to be heard to get this exploitation banned...

The ITF is also calling for states to ratify and implement the ILO’s Forced Labour Protocol; and for governments to support an ILO Convention on Decent Work and Supply Chains dealing with labour-specific issues and a binding UN Treaty on Transnational Corporations and their overall human rights impacts.