Forced Labour

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World+Biz

Annual profits from forced labour amount to $236 billion: ILO report

"International community must urgently come together to take action to end this injustice, safeguard workers' rights"

European flags fly outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium 20 September 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo
Europe

EU Parliament, Council agree to ban products made with forced labour

More children continue to fall victims of trafficking from exploitative and discriminative practices. Photo: IOM.
World+Biz

Most child trafficking victims trafficked domestically: Report

EU seeks to ban products made with forced labour
Europe

EU seeks to ban products made with forced labour

Security guards stand at the gates of what is officially known as a vocational skills education center in Huocheng County in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China September 3, 2018.REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo
China

UN expert concludes 'forced labour' has taken place in Xinjiang

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Bloomberg Special

US crackdown on forced labour in China risks further supply chaos

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers remarks on the release of the 2021 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report as Kari Johnstone, acting director of Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficing In Persons, listens at the State Department in Washington, US, July 1, 2021. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/Pool
World+Biz

Forced labour main human trafficking crime in Malaysia, US says

Top Glove workers wait for food distribution outside a hostel under enhanced lockdown, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Klang, Malaysia November 17, 2020. REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng
World+Biz

Senior Malaysian police official says forced labour not 'out of control'

An US flag waves in the wind on a boat near the Statue of Liberty in New York August 31, 2011. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
World+Biz

US probes two Malaysian glove makers over forced labour allegations -report

Vessels using forced labor were found in every ocean and visited ports around the world. Photo: The Conversation, kruwt/iStock via Getty Images Plus
World+Biz

AI, satellite data used to find forced labor in thousands of ocean fishing boats

A company logo is pictured outside a Tesco supermarket in Altrincham northern England, April 16, 2016. REUTERS/Phil Noble/File Photo
World+Biz

Tesco suspends Chinese supplier after prisoner labor report