Sentences with phrase «forced child labor»

Roberto Romano, co-director of documentary film, «The Dark Side of Chocolate,» discusses his findings of forced child labor in many of the foods Americans eat.

Not exact matches

Those standards include prohibiting child harassment and abuse or forced labor, and ensuring fair pay and benefits.

Since you always have a choice of where you spend your money, even though some of us conveniently forget uncomfortable truths, Girlfriend Collective's factory uses no forced or child labor, mandates fair working hours and safe conditions, pays living wages, and allows workers to unionize.

In addition to its corporate diversity, Alphabet Inc. ranked strongly for worker pay and benefits, including a flexible paid time off policy, and a strong 401 (k) savings program, and for its supply chain impact (the company has committed to reasonable worker hours, and to policies such as no forced or child labor).

In his State of the Union in July, he said the law will let poor people adequately care for their children, «eventually making [those children] more productive members of the labor force.»

In 2010, 54 percent of women 16 years and older participated in the labor force, with 71 percent of those women raising children, the study said.

The study said Coca - Cola, one of 10 global companies looked at by KTC, has committed to conduct 28 country - level studies on child labor, forced labor, and land rights for its sugar supply chains by 2020.

No child labor / forced labor Bridgestone prohibits child labor / forced labor in any country.

Companies shouldn't be forced to comply to child labor laws, or have ethical work conditions.

The government should protect people's rights (i.e. child labor) not force employers to provide certain health benefits.

The report goes on to say that the prison populations decrease only as people are deliberately starved, forced into excessive labor, executed, tortured, raped, are forced into having an abortion or have their children killed.

There are upwards of 27 million people trapped in slavery today, and an estimated 100,000 children are in the sex trade in the U.S., as well as countless others trafficked into the country for forced labor.

These companies fail to disclose their use of child and forced labor, tricking consumers into indirectly supporting the use of such labor.

Of course she says nothing about her husband's policy of overlooking human rights violations by China, including the slave labor of uncounted thousands and forced abortions for pregnant women with more than one child.

Somehow, I suspect your very simple - minded response would change if I claimed you as my personal property, restricted your personal freedoms, claimed any children you might have as my additional personal property, and forced you (using only that «necessary» amount of physical violence to maintain your compliance) to perform hard manual labor for 12 hours a day.

According to a new report released Wednesday by the Trafficking in Persons Study Commission, about 1,000 American - born children are forced into labor and sex trafficking each year — in Ohio.

It happened after about 200 years of Jewish enslavement by the Egyptians; not just enslavement, but all that goes along with that — murders, beatings, forced labor, cruelty, kidnapping and murder of children, etc..

Among them are children, who are often victims of trafficking and forced labor.

The Los Angeles Times: Scientology did not violate forced labor law, appeals court rules Scientology did not violate a labor law by failing to pay for the work of two former members of the church's Sea Organization - a wing that restricts participants» outside communications, marriage and children, censors mail and monitors phone calls - a federal appeals court said Tuesday.

«In addition to ensuring the quality of the products themselves, we want to make sure there is no child labor being used, as well as to support female work forces in developing nations,» he states.

«In addition to ensuring the quality of the products themselves, we want to make sure there is no child labor being used, as well as to support female work forces in developing nations,» he states.The company also makes a point of hiring local women who, many times, have difficulty finding adequate employment.

In this capacity she provides expert technical guidance on a variety of labor topics, including approaches for assisting vulnerable and at - risk youth and child and forced laborers.

Within OCFT, Ms. Sasser has also served as Division Chief of Research and Policy, coordinator on combating trafficking in persons, coordinator for Executive Order 13126 list of products made with forced or indentured child labor, and project manager for technical assistance programming in South East Asia.

She has worked for local and international NGOs on issues such as gender and poverty reduction, and has consulted on M&E, child labor, forced labor, and trafficking issues.

Both the ETI and our Ethical Sourcing Code of Conduct require that employment is freely chosen and not forced in addition to other similar commitments to help to ensure that our suppliers are not engaging in forced or child labor.

To ensure our purchases do not contribute to deforestation, loss of biodiversity or social issues such as forced and child labor and human trafficking, Kraft Heinz seeks to procure palm oil products in an ethical, transparent, responsible and sustainable manner.

We will not use any form of child, forced or compulsory labor.

These risks require additional due diligence in sourcing, education and training to ensure the palm oil in our supply chain is not associated with deforestation, child or forced labor, or plantation expansion on carbon - rich peatlands.

At - Home Dads — According to 2012 estimates, 189,000 married fathers with children younger than 15 have remained out of the labor force for at least one year primarily so they can care for the family while their wife works outside the home.

With my first child I was forced into a c - section and never given the opportunity to labor!

In 2000, 52.3 % of children under age 6 had all parents living at home in the labor force, up from 49.8 % in 1990.

The economic downturn in recent years, which led to higher unemployment levels among fathers; the re-entry of mothers into the labor force; a growing number of parents working different schedules; and the escalating costs of child care are all cited as factors that have made fathers» increased child - rearing role more feasible and more necessary.

A native of Kopyczynce, Poland, Mr. Ostapiuk was taken with his family to a Siberian labor camp as a child, where he was held until the Soviet Union joined the Allied forces during World War II.

This task force includes the U.S. Attorney's Office, the Erie County Sheriff's Office, the US Dept. of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the FBI, the US Dept. of Labor, Wage and Hour, US Border Patrol, the International Institute of Buffalo, Farmworker Legal Services, as well as the Missing and Exploited Children.

The U.S. government both underwrites much of the Fanjul Corp.'s American mills and plantations, and has placed Dominican sugarcane on its list of products created with forced and child labor — so the family is lucky to have a new friend in Congress with ties to the Caribbean nation.

Additionally, when orphaned or double - orphaned children are foisted off on relatives, they can fall to second priority over biological children and even end up in abusive or forced labor situations.

Girls in school marry later, and empowered young women enter the labor force and choose to have fewer children.

Small farmers could be key actors in reforming Indonesia's palm oil industry, which has been linked to child and forced labor, deforestation and the demise of iconic species like orangutans.

Additionally, estimates are that 1 - 3 % of all cotton workers are affected with acute poisoning from the chemicals used on cotton crops and in many places of the world, the textile industry relies on forced or child labor (much like chocolate is) so it is also important to look for fair trade certified cotton.

The terrible reality is that these children, 11 - to -16-years-old but sometimes younger, are forced to do hard manual labor 80 to 100 hours a week.

Our Vendor Code of Conduct specifically states Stein Mart will not knowingly accept product which was manufactured: using convict, forced, indentured labor or child labor; or in violation of any applicable labor, workplace safety or environmental law or regulation.

We don't want to give the impression that the film is purely a comedy, it's far from it, dealing with the great Catholic Church scandal of the Magdalene Sisters who were forced into near - slave labor and separated from their children (Peter Mullan dealt with similar stories in his underrated directorial effort «The Magdalene Sisters «-RRB-.

In the old days, Bette Davis would have had a breakdown without an apology, dumped the dopey, abusive husband with the children, and become the editor of a progressive magazine for women in the labor force who aim to improve the world and still have enough time left over to shop for lingerie.

Although initially not interested in a human interest piece, Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan) finds himself drawn into Philomena Lee's (Judi Dench) story of her forced labor at a convent decades earlier whose nuns sold her child, and those of several other unwed mothers, into adoption for 1000 pounds.

Parents who see how difficult it is to get and retain employment without education may stress the value of school completion, but it is also conceivable that underemployed parents may seek to accelerate their children's entry into the labor force, even at the expense of their education.

Not only can the provision of high - quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) facilitate women's participation in the labor force, it can also have a positive effect on their children's educational performance.

This will require an even bolder voice demanding new national investment priorities to ensure America has a competitive labor force, diplomatic corps and military in the 21st century world and becomes a beacon in a world desperately hungering for a moral example by its treatment of all of its children.»

«Military families serve our country in so many ways, so I'm proud that our education bill to fix No Child Left Behind takes important steps to better serve military - connected kids,» said Sen. Patty Murray, D - Wash., ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and a driving force behind the provision for the military student identifier.

Both parents are in the labor force and children are left unsupervised after school and during summer vacations.

Tectonic social changes — including demographic shifts that have placed most women with school - age children in the labor force, research breakthroughs in the learning sciences and in socio - emotional and brain development, and daunting national achievement worries — have all converged to place a major new emphasis on the quality of a child's learning experiences throughout the typical school day, after school, weekends, and across the year, including summers.