Forced Labor in a sentence

According to a recent ILO report on the economics of forced labor, companies’ profit from forced labor in the private sector is US$63.9 billion annually.

One defendant was sentenced to death, 39 to life in forced labor and 30 received 15-year forced labor sentences.

Since June 2022, the entity list has grown to a total of 75 companies accused of using forced labor in Xinjiang or sourcing materials tied to that forced labor, Homeland Security said.

While Apple claims to oppose forced labor, the company is reportedly lobbying lawmakers in Washington to soften language in a bill aimed at preventing U.S. companies from relying on forced labor from China in its product supply chain.

The camps are heavily guarded, have no contact with the outside world, and children only come out for forced labor: “They are mainly used as cheap slave labor in agriculture,” says Abbas.

Transparentem, the nonprofit investigative group that I founded, has exposed numerous abuses in the supply chains of dozens of companies — including forced labor, child labor and working environments.

The 2022 Qatar World Cup bidding process ignored rampant labor abuses, and in 2014, Qatar faced a forced labor complaint at the ILO.

The company also stated that it is reviewing working conditions to ensure compliance with labor laws, which define modern slavery as forced labor, exhausting hours, and restricted freedom of movement.

Prison labor is the forced labor done by the convicts in a prison.

The Chinese Communist Party announced in 2013 that it would be shutting down forced labor camps and abolishing the “re-education-through-labor” system.

Consumers in the United States are willing to suspend the importation of textiles made with child labor in other countries but do not expect their exports to be suspended by other countries, even when produced using forced labor.

The Spanish colonizers introduced the encomienda system of forced labor, which in central Mexico built on indigenous traditions of rendering tribute and labor to rulers in their own communities and local rulers rendering tribute to higher authorities.

A senior U.S. official told Reuters last year that U.S. allies appeared committed to following Washington's lead banning forced labor goods from Xinjiang, while warning companies they could not maintain "deliberate ignorance" about their supply chains.

Bilateral relations thawed after Yoon’s conservative government in March announced a domestically contentious plan to use local corporate funds to compensate the forced labor victims without demanding Japanese contributions.

Human rights groups accuse Beijing of abuses against Xinjiang’s Uyghur inhabitants, including the mass use of forced labor in internment camps.

Human/sexual trafficking is an act of unlawfully transporting people in order to benefit from their work of service, typically in the form of forced labor or sexual exploitation.

I look forward to working with Chairman Gallagher to shine a light on how forced labor may contaminate our supply chains, and how we need to put an end to this going forward,” Krishnamoorthi said.

Inspection mechanisms to enforce laws against forced labor did not function effectively.

It has published dozens of articles documenting oppression in the lead-up to local elections in 2022 and more than 60 other pieces in an exposé about forced labor in cyber-scam operations.

It was Chinese government subsidies, coal, and forced labor.