Reports that forced labor has been used to prepare the infrastructure have also been damaging.
Hundreds of prisoners of conscience have been released, and forced labor has been banned.
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However, Germany's bunkers largely date from the Third Reich and some were built with forced labor.
This sole act was considered treason, and he was summarily sent to a forced labor camp indefinitely.
Today the government regularly jails and tortures dissenters and uses forced labor and rape as management tools.
The forced labor involved other projects in the region and had nothing to do with Unocal or Total.
At first, Ponchaud had a hard time believing the accounts of execution, torture, deportation, forced labor and starvation.
Asics' bylaws include standards prohibiting partners from using forced labor and child labor.
The president signed an executive order on Tuesday to strengthen protections so that federal contractors aren't using forced labor.
Legislation has been enacted to expand the rights of workers to form labor unions, and to outlaw forced labor.
Instead they used forced labor, sanctioned by state laws, for their economic gain.
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We've already discussed how important it is for us to work together on issues of human trafficking and forced labor.
Human rights groups were quick to denounce Ivanhoe, accusing the mine of taking advantage of forced labor and poisoning the environment.
The International Labour Organization has for years pressured Myanmar to eradicate forced labor, which it says is widespread in the country.
Since Czech playwright Karel Capek popularized the term ("robota" means "forced labor" in Czech) in 1921, we have imagined what robots could do.
The Company further argued that neither the Company nor its subsidiaries benefited from the use of forced labor or human rights abuses inBurma.
In the past two weeks, the United Nations and President Bill Clinton have castigated SLORC, the ruling junta, for suppression of democracy and forced labor.
Another part of the legislation aims to end international trafficking of women and children into sex, trade, slavery and forced labor by increasing harsher U.S. penalties.
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Csizsik-Csatary made sure four of them were brought back from forced labor with the Hungarian army so they would be deported and killed, according to Zuroff.
Human trafficking, or the smuggling of people for the purposes of forced labor in a destination country, is also a growing problem, although it's difficult to measure.
China appears to be on the verge of closing, or, at minimum, seriously reforming its 350 forced labor camps, together with injecting due process into its system.
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The report cites the International Labor Organization, which estimates that at least 12.3 million adults and children are victims of forced labor, bonded labor and sex slavery each year.
The company has a code of conduct for its manufacturing partners prohibiting child labor, forced labor, or hazardous working conditions, and checks for compliance via regular third-party monitoring, he said.
"There are many, many household items that are produced with forced labor and not just child labor, " says Bama Athreya, executive director of the International Labor Rights Forum in Washington, D.
From now on the United States will try to make its trade partners guarantee workers the right to organize and ban child labor, and prohibit forced labor and protect the environment.
While a significant percentage of trafficking in Cambodia involves men being lured into forced labor, the advocates noted that female trafficking survivors often have a more difficult time reintegrating into society.
According to the website of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, at least 1.5 million Polish citizens were sent into forced labor in German territory between 1939 and 1945.
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Consequently, he consistently looked the other way, excused or rationalized the forced labor camps, purges and other acts of brutality as part of the price that had to be paid to achieve greatness.
But Great Britain, where so many historic breakthroughs for liberty occurred, adopted forced labor during the late 1940s, and it has had a big welfare state ever since, as does France, Italy and the rest of Europe.
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