FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM 51 forms of violence and additional areas of victim support and assistance, health and social services, training and research and evaluation. b) Inter-governmental Organisations. i) ILO The International Labour Organisation104 views with serious concern the increasing volume and complexity of trafficking in persons worldwide, especially migrant women and children. It recognizes the imperative need to address it at national, regional and global levels by promoting bilateral, regional and multilateral cooperation to combat it. The ILO considers trafficking as a form of forced and compulsory labour, one of the worst forms of child labour, among the worst forms of exploitation of migrant workers, and lastly, as an issue involving a significant number of women workers. It recognizes that trafficking in women and children (boys and girls) exists not only in the commercial sex industry, but also in other sectors such as domestic service, work in plantations, construction sites, sweatshops and begging and soliciting. It also considers it essential to improve the role of the labour market in increasing employment opportunities and improving working conditions for affected families in source countries, and in particular for female members. Providing everyone with full, productive and freely chosen decent work can attack the root causes of trafficking. In addition, it considers the promotion of gender equality as one of most important means to reduce trafficking since there is a strong link between women’ employment status, child labour and trafficking. Indeed, gender discrimination in society and in the labour market is one of the root causes of trafficking. Within the ILO’s mandate, trafficking in persons for purposes of labour exploitation, in particular, forced and compulsory labour and other slavery-like practices, is covered by a number of ILO Conventions, which have already been covered in the earlier parts of this chapter. ILO has a well-developed supervisory system for the application of ratified conventions. All countries, which have ratified ILO Conventions, owe periodic reports on their application in law and in practice. 104 See <http//www.ilo.org>.