ATEST Recommendations for Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Implementation
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ATEST Recommendations for Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Implementation

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Re: Public Comments on Methods to Prevent the Importation of Goods Mined, Produced, or Manufactured with Forced Labor in the People’s Republic of China, Especially in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, into the United States

Born to Live, Not Born to Work: The Implications of New Proposed Labour Regulations in India
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Born to Live, Not Born to Work: The Implications of New Proposed Labour Regulations in India

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Image description: A person working on a pottery wheel.  The Indian government is currently considering allowing factories in India to extend daily permissible work hours from the current norm of 9 hours per day or 48 hours per week, under the Factories Act, to 12 hours per day for 4 days per week. Should this…

Forced Prison Labor in China: Hiding in Plain Sight
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Forced Prison Labor in China: Hiding in Plain Sight

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Ancient Mogilev, a former city of the medieval Duchy of Lithuania and now part of Belarus close to the border with Russia, cradled along the River Dnieper, is a most unlikely spot for an interview about forced prison labor in China. But this is the home to which Dima Siakatsky returned after his release from…

Free Resources to Fight Modern Slavery from The Mekong Club
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Free Resources to Fight Modern Slavery from The Mekong Club

ByBilly Joe Cain

Roles & Responsibilities Chart: This tool summarizes the typical roles and responsibilities employees/decision-makers play in addressing modern slavery compliance and risk within supply chains.

Modern Slavery Risk Map: Search by country and commodity to see where the risk of modern slavery is found. This tool brings together various data sources into one map.

Harbouring Explained
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Harbouring Explained

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Vienna (Austria) 04 October 2021 – Victims of human trafficking are accommodated or forced to stay in locations prior to and during their exploitation or between periods of abuse. These settings can be in brothels, private homes, factories, farms, or fishing vessels. They are often dangerous, inhumane and unsanitary, and can be controlled by criminals…

New Bill Against Forced Labor in China Offers Promising Development in Tariff Act Enforcement
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New Bill Against Forced Labor in China Offers Promising Development in Tariff Act Enforcement

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Author: Sarah Murray | originally posted on Human Trafficking Institute’s website, Aug 27, 2021 Introduction Over the past four years, the People’s Republic of China has forced at least one million Uyghurs,[1] who are mostly Muslim, and members of other ethnic and religious minorities into internment camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (“Xinjiang”), a…

Organ Harvesting’s Troubled Past — and Complicated Present
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Organ Harvesting’s Troubled Past — and Complicated Present

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At an international conference on kidney transplantation in 1963, a disagreement broke out about exactly when a patient should be considered dead enough to become an organ donor. One doctor stood up, angrily declaring that he was not “going to just wait around for the medical examiner to declare the patient dead. I’m just going…

China’s Forced Labor Problem
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China’s Forced Labor Problem

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In China, forced labor is sensitive topic. Years pass between the odd case of forced labor that sees the light of day in local media. Local labor NGOs rarely approach incidents of serious coercion in forced labor terms. Nobody knows the real extent, and surprisingly few, from China as well as abroad, prioritize exploring this…

“Humanizing the Prisons” The Atlantic Monthly, August, 1911, issue. Vol. 108, No. 2 (p.170-179).
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“Humanizing the Prisons” The Atlantic Monthly, August, 1911, issue. Vol. 108, No. 2 (p.170-179).

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August 1911Humanizing the Prisonsby Morrison I. Swift The State of Vermont contains a prison where the inmates are treated upon a novel plan. They are trusted and treated like other human beings; they come and go almost as freely as the members of the jailer’s own family; so far as possible whatever suggests punishment or…