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Recruitment Supply Chain Risk Intelligence

Explore global forced labour data, corridor-specific recruitment risk, and compliance benchmarks. Then assess your own supply chain in under 3 minutes.

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Answer 8 questions about your recruitment corridors and operational practices. Receive a dashboard scored across 6 categories, calibrated against published benchmark data.

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Corridors, intermediaries, fees, documentation, attrition, process consistency.

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62

High Risk

~$3,200

cost/worker

Fee Risk

71

4/6

High+

Fee71
Supply64
Compliance55
Documentation48
Attrition52
Deployment44
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169M

Migrant workers globally

ILO, 2024

$236B

Annual forced labour profits

ILO, 2024

27.6M

People in forced labour

ILO / Walk Free, 2022

48%

Ethical audit failure rate

QIMA, 2024

11+

Months earnings in fees (avg.)

ILO / Bangladesh corridor, 2024

33%

First-year workforce attrition

Work Institute, 2024

Global Risk Landscape

Cross-border recruitment risk is concentrated in specific corridors and regions. The data below is drawn from published sources used to calibrate the FairLink Risk Index.

Key Recruitment Corridors

NepalIndiaBangladeshPakistanKenyaUgandaUAESaudi ArabiaQatarKuwaitOmanBahrainUKPhilippinesS. AsiaAfricaE. EuropeLat. Am.Source marketDestination

Modern Slavery Prevalence — Key Corridor Countries

CountryTypePrevalence /1kRank
Saudi Arabiadestination21.318th
UAEdestination13.438th
Kuwaitdestination1340th
Indiasource859th
Philippinessource7.836th
Omandestination7.561st
Bangladeshsource7.163rd
Bahraindestination7.164th
Qatardestination6.866th
Kenyasource570th
Ugandasource4.273rd
Nepalsource3.376th
UKdestination1.8162nd

Source: Walk Free Global Slavery Index 2023

Forced Labour Prevalence by Region

Arab States5.3/1,000 · 0.9M
Europe & Central Asia4.4/1,000 · 4.1M
Asia & Pacific3.5/1,000 · 15.1M
Africa2.9/1,000 · 3.8M
Americas1.9/1,000 · 3.6M

Source: ILO / Walk Free Global Estimates of Modern Slavery, 2022

Recruitment Fee Burden by Corridor

Bangladesh → Gulf
17.6months wages
India → Saudi Arabia
3.5months wages
Nepal → Qatar
3.3months wages
India → Qatar
3.2months wages
Vietnam → General
7.4months wages

Sources: ILO, KNOMAD, ITUC corridor monitoring data

Source Datasets

The FairLink Risk Index is grounded in published, authoritative datasets. Explore the sources below.

Core Benchmark Datasets

Global Slavery Index

Walk Free Foundation

Country prevalence + vulnerability scores

Forced Labour Estimates

ILO

Global forced labour data (country/region)

Migration Cost Data

World Bank / KNOMAD

Corridor-specific recruitment cost

Recruitment Cost Surveys

IOM

Worker-paid recruitment cost datasets

Enforcement & Risk Reference

Goods Produced by Child/Forced Labor

U.S. Dept of Labor — Sector + country risk flags

Withhold Release Orders

U.S. CBP — Forced labour import enforcement

UFLPA Entity List

U.S. DHS — Entities linked to forced labour

Governance & Regulatory Context

NATLEX Labour Law Database

ILO — National labour laws

Migration Governance Indicators

World Bank / KNOMAD — Country governance quality

Assessment Coverage

Fee exposure

Hidden recruitment fees across your intermediary chain.

Supply chain visibility

Oversight and control over agents and sub-agents.

Compliance readiness

Audit preparedness and documentation verification.

Documentation risk

Reliability of worker document verification.

Workforce stability

Attrition patterns and replacement costs.

Deployment readiness

Process consistency and operational preparedness.

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