In 2004, Parliament created a specific offence of trafficking someone into the UK for forced labour.
Police officials say that complaints made by children at the shelter include forced labour and physical assault.
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Cait Reilly, 24, claimed that requiring her to work for nothing at a Poundland store breached laws on forced labour.
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Burma lost GSP status in 1997 because of concern about forced labour.
So the 2009 Act set out to recognise forced labour as a crime on its own - making it theoretically easier to bring prosecutions.
And in the United States, Free the Slaves, another anti-slavery group, found illegal forced labour in at least 90 cities, involving over 19, 000 people.
All four deny three counts of conspiracy to hold a person in servitude and three of conspiracy to require a person to perform forced labour.
The day that he and Bella left Marseille for America, the Vichy police deported 1, 200 other Jewish refugees there to forced labour in north Africa.
The prosecution team in the case of a traveller family jailed for forced labour is to appeal against what it has called "unduly lenient" sentences.
All four are charged with three counts of conspiracy to hold a person in servitude and three of conspiracy to require a person to perform forced labour.
Though its most publicised elements are the wartime accounts, it also offers financial compensation for forced labour, and to refugees denied entry to Switzerland during the war.
The four men, who pleaded not guilty, were jailed after being convicted of conspiracy to compel people to carry out forced labour by a jury at Bristol Crown Court.
With Burma's economy plunging deeper into crisis, the government acted to counter the threat and has, for the first time, officially outlawed forced labour and circulated the directive throughout the country.
It would be Dad's Army, or forced labour.
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In a statement on Monday the EU Commission said its proposal to restore GSP status for Burma was based on an International Labour Organization (ILO) conclusion that the country had made "significant" progress in tackling forced labour.
But the museum adds that all Bulgarian Jewish men between the ages of 20 and 40 were drafted for forced labour after 1941, and in 1943 the Bulgarian government expelled 20, 000 Jews from the capital, Sofia, to the provinces.
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Total and Unocal, on the other hand, argue that no forced labour went into the construction of the pipeline itself, and that, in any case, they have no influence over Myanmar's army and cannot be held responsible for its conduct.
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Mr Gumpert said the defence would argue that there was no servitude, no forced labour, but rather a rough bargain which enabled men who would otherwise have wasted their lives away in drink and dependency to have meaningful lives as part of the Connors family.
As for the Dresden tragedy, among the civilian casualties was a large forced-labour population.
Mr Sharon would then be forced to take Labour into a unity government on at least some of Labour's terms.
The defendants all deny charges of conspiracy to hold another person in servitude and conspiracy to require a person to carry out forced or compulsory labour.
They have a point: if poorer countries were forced to bring labour laws up to rich-country standards overnight, their exports would fall and their economies would be badly hurt.
The five relatives were found guilty of conspiracy to require a person to carry out forced or compulsory labour in a trial which finished in December and were given sentences ranging from two-and-a-quarter years to six-and-a-half years.
When Labour was forced to confront immigration, it scored a couple of own goals.
Labour were forced to admit the true scale of the crisis they have caused in the public finances.
After the Black Death killed a third of the population of medieval Europe, labour scarcity forced landowners to pay their workers better.
But his unorthodox style propelled him to the top in 2000 after first Ron Davies and then Alun Michael were forced out as Welsh Labour leaders.
The minister urged Lord Warner to withdraw the amendment but the Labour peer forced a vote on the matter, maintaining that a definition should be included in the bill.
Dominique de Villepin, another former prime minister, was forced to abandon a labour-market reform in 2006 after huge street demonstrations and sit-ins, provoked in part by his refusal even to discuss the plan beforehand.
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