The move was welcomed by Martin Echtinger, head of the government department for forced labour compensation.
What is more, owners received only a small fraction of the benefits from slaves' forced labour.
In 2004, Parliament created a specific offence of trafficking someone into the UK for forced labour.
But their use of forced labour led to a revolt in which several thousand Haitians died.
Police officials say that complaints made by children at the shelter include forced labour and physical assault.
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Meanwhile, the regime continues to fend off claims of widespread brutality, including the use of forced labour.
The report alleged widespread misappropriation of aid and the use of forced labour by the army in the delta.
Cait Reilly, 24, claimed that requiring her to work for nothing at a Poundland store breached laws on forced labour.
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Some of the more senior ones act as brokers for their juniors' forced labour on building sites or in the fields.
In most places, the Indian tribute and forced labour were ended, but not the serfdom of Indians on the large estates.
Burma lost GSP status in 1997 because of concern about forced labour.
Tens of thousands of prisoners died at the camp where inmates were used for forced labour and subjected to medical experiments and torture.
Sex trafficking may get the headlines but forced labour and debt bondage, or a combination of the two, is more common in Nepal.
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.
He took part in forced labour as slowly as he could, digging ditches or chopping up blocks of marble in the fierce, dripping Cuban heat.
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.
But for the army, stamping out the use of forced labour is likely to be more divisive than holding talks with the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
They were commissioned in 221BC by the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi, who used the forced labour of 700, 000 subjects to create a mausoleum guarded by an entire army.
It is ridiculous to say this is forced labour.
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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.
As if starvation and sickness were not enough, over the years there have been reports of people being pressed into forced labour and of the army recruiting child soldiers.
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.
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