Sentences with phrase «as forced labour»

They made do with what they had, which wasn't much, and many died from a combination of overwork, malnourishment and inadequate housing (Caribbean mornings and evenings can be cool, particularly in the winter months and West Africans who were brought over as forced labour had relatively little tolerance for cold).

Coupled with an economy based on profit and on the games finance plays in order to profit from money itself, without a clear orientation to the production of goods, this leads to social exclusion and the new forms of slavery such as forced labour, prostitution, organ trafficking, and the use of drugs as a method of corruption.

But ongoing human rights abuses in ethnic areas, such as forced labour, rape, displacement, and portering in Kayah, Karen, Shan, Kachin, and Rakhine states, continue unabated as the army's presence in those areas continues to disrupt the lives of local people (dm IRIN 2013).

Human rights abuses against ethnic civilians, such as forced labour, rape, pillage, land grabbing, and exploitation were first reported in ethnic areas the 1970s and 1980s, after which more than 150,000 people8 had fled to Thailand to seek refuge in camps by 20109.

By the end of 1942, POWs were being used as forced labour as the Japanese war effort intensified.

Not exact matches

But it also has policies directly addressing issues common to the garment industry, such as prohibitions on forced and child labour.

The percentage of women between the ages of 25 and 54 with full - time jobs rose from 58 % in 2000 to 63 % in 2007, as women entered the labour force as never before, causing family incomes to rise.

In 1987, 8.6 % of the labour force worked in sales jobs, estimates Statistics Canada; a generation later, that figure has inched up to 9.7 %, with about 3.7 million Canadians working in «sales and service» as of September 2011.

The data show that the mat - leave issue is bound to escalate, as the future labour force will be increasingly made up of women.

The recent improvement in start - up activity despite a relatively healthy labour market indicates that a significant number of new entrepreneurs chose self - employment as a career rather than being forced to open a business due to a lack of other employment opportunities.

Ontario's unemployment fell a notch to 6.8 %, but the story there was much the same as in London — a drop in the number of working, offset by an even larger drop in the labour force.

The Labour Force Survey for August showed that average hourly wages were up by just 1.4 % from a year earlier, the same low level of increase as was registered in July. Consumer price inflation was 2.7 % in July, a bit down from 3.1 % in June and 3.7 % in May, but it seems that we have -LSB-...]

Most economists expect potential economic growth to decline from about 3 per cent annually to about 2 per cent over the next ten years, as a result of continued poor productivity growth and a slowing labour force growth as the population ages.

Canada faces a deep long - term fiscal challenge, as its population ages and its labour force growth slows, states a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.

The disappointing performance of business investment to date could reflect more sustained structural factors, such as slowing labour force growth, low productivity growth and regulatory obstacles.

Unfortunately for the Japanese labour markets, as with many other countries, many young intellectuals seek further study elsewhere in countries like the UK that have renowned Universities and research facilities, taking a large portion of the skilled labour force the Japanese markets need, into other areas of work such as research and academia, a less hands on field that benefits the computer science industry on the whole but does not help specific firms achieve their targets directly.

Some labour force data is available for workers who self - identify as aboriginal (off - reserve only), and workers with landed immigrant status.

Nevertheless, it is likely that there is still substantial slack in the labour market, as poor employment prospects until recently discouraged some people from participating in the labour force.

Even more significant, the strong expansion of the labour force and employment as shown by the (separate) household survey in February and March (averaging 388,000 per month) kept the unemployment rate at 5.0 % in March.

This is unfortunate since other Statistics Canada surveys of earnings and income such as the Labour Force Survey do not gather data based on racial status.

This growth slowdown reflects both declining labour force growth as baby boomers retire in large numbers and a reduced pace of aggregate productivity growth.

The ECB monetary policy is currently providing the German economy with enough funds, but the country is experiencing a catastrophic lack of youth, and its ageing labour force is not being replaced as a result of which workforce is already in short supply.

A Labour MP has urged the Government to formally recognise the deaths of millions of people in Ukraine in the 1930s because of «forced famine» as an act of genocide.

It detailed Christians as «being hung on a cross over a fire, crushed under a steamroller, herded off bridges and trampled underfoot... extra-judicial killing, extermination, enslavement / forced labour, forcible transfer of population, arbitrary imprisonment, torture, persecution, enforced disappearance, rape and sexual violence, and other inhumane acts.»

In the 1960s, the Harold Wilson Labour government forced secondary schools to become comprehensive and the Catholic system changed in a matter of years almost as if going comprehensive was something to be done «in the spirit of Vatican II».

The example of St Thomas More, Bedford, is a chilling one, for the Department «for» Children, Schools and Families presented it as the exemplar of what all Catholic schools will now be forced to become if Labour has its way.

Others have made a move to fewer packaging SKUs, using more one - size - fits - all materials (however much as needed) so that packaging decisions can be made faster and easier by untrained labour forces.

Identify areas to be addressed as priority in terms of adverse impact, with focus on forced and migrant labour (in close collaboration with the Consumer Goods Forum), ethical recruitment and grievance mechanisms

The plaintiffs allege that the companies aided, abetted or failed to prevent the torture, forced labour and arbitrary detention that they had suffered as child slaves.»

New mum: Recalling the moment she first welcomed her son into the world, Cara revealed she was forced to ditch her initial plans for a water birth, as she began to go into labour while in the bath

Recalling the moment she first welcomed her son into the world, Cara revealed she was forced to ditch her initial plans for a water birth, as she began to go into labour while in the bath.

However, despite the valiant efforts of left Rawlsians to press down hard on pre-distribution and force it to yield some radical implications (O'Neill and Williamson, 2012; Doron, 2012), in Miliband's formulation it seems a weak reed, relying on labour market interventions such as education and training to alter distributional outcomes.

Margaret begins an investigation that takes her to Australia, where she meets other adults who, as children, were taken from care to a life of institutions and forced labour on the other side of the world.

Unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for job as a percentage of the labour force.

Sir Steve Bullock, the Labour mayor of Lewisham and housing spokesperson for London Councils, told politics.co.uk that more and more families were being forced into bed and breakfast accommodation, paid for by the taxpayer, as a result of the changes.

Because as well as the official Labour conference, Momentum - the driving force behind Jeremy Corbyn — are staging their own «happening» (I've been instructed by James Schneider, a Momentum big wig, that it is NOT a conference... erm... okay) up the road in Liverpool at the same time.

«The Chinese authorities» list of human rights abuses is as long as your arm - torture, forced labour, internet repression, unfair trials, and of course the death penalty.

His move is widely derided as a kamikaze mission for forcing 49 Labour MPs to rebel so soon, many reluctantly compelled to traipse into the division lobby after promising constituents to champion the Remain cause, with the ploy angrily denounced as suicide politics when the stand mustered a mere 101 MPs and precipitated a frontbench resignation and dismissals.

That explains yesterday's hubristic comments from Alex Salmond in declaring he will be able to force Labour to commit to spending that will benefit Scotland in the party's first Budget as a minority government.

When Iain Duncan Smith warns unemployed youth they will be forced to pick up litter in exchange for their benefits, he stigmatises young people as irresponsible, selfish and lazy citizens who need to be forced into unwaged labour to learn the right values.

Labour tried to outmanoeuvre the Conservatives on the issue of pornography today, as it threw its support behind plans to force internet users to «opt - in'to online sexual content.

Thus Conservative MPs - led by Claire Perry and backed by Labour - have forced the government to propose website blocking as part of the armoury for the regulator.

Former adversaries Gordon Brown and John McDonnell today joined forces as Labour steps up it efforts to persuade its traditional supporters to reject leaving the EU.

At present, there are two principal measures of unemployment used by the Government: the International Labour Organisation (ILO) measure (the UK's version being known as the Labour Force Survey or LFS unemployment); and the Claimant Count.

On Monday afternoon, the idea that Labour might become an effective, unified political force under Eagle was exposed as the fantasy it always was.

But the pair then gave every indidcation that they wanted to join forces with Labour as they pledged to try to strike alliances with other left - of - centre parties to defeat the Conservatives.

Ed Milband presented his party as a force for fiscal responsibility, promising that Labour's manifesto contained no unfunded pledges and that a Miliband - led government would eliminate the UK's budget deficit during the next parliament.

In a sign of how low expectations had been managed, Labour's spokespeople have been out in force spinning this as a reasonable night for the party.

Labour now finds itself presented the problem of how to manage a core vote that has emerged as a radically Eurosceptic, conservative, insurgency and is forced for the first time to take seriously the tradition - orientated ideals, habits and orientations of the people who have supported it over generations.

Tory strategists also know that Labour has ceased to exist as a meaningful campaigning force in large parts of the country.