Sentences with phrase «forced labor around»

According to the International Labour Organization's 2012 Global Estimate of Forced Labour, there were an estimated 20.9 million people in forced labor around the world at any given point between 2002 and 2012.

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He explained that, while the economy is currently growing at a rate of around 1.5 to 2 percent, without the improvement in women's participation in the labor force, Japan would've grown at around 1 to 1.5 percent.

True, our unemployment rate is biased down due to the weak performance of labor force participation and still - elevated underemployment, but as I've extensively documented, the US job market has been tightening up for awhile, driven by solid employment growth, now averaging around 200,000 / month.

Depending on whom you ask, this number is either right around what is needed to keep up with the growth of the labor force or a touch above it.

Looking back at the 1960s and the 1970s, labor force growth rates increased at a very healthy clip, around 2 % — 3 % annually.

«These treaties have forced American workers to compete against desperate and low - wage labor around the world.

Meanwhile, the overall share out of the labor force because they're discouraged, have family responsibilities, transportation problems, illness, or a disability has stayed flat at around 1 % since the BLS started asking this question in the current form in 1994, they add.

Around the world, governments are emphasizing women's participation in the labor force as a solution for economic growth, gender equality, and poverty reduction.

Women are often forced to make difficult decisions that involve trade - offs around rates of intervention, the likelihood they will be able to know who will attend them when they go into labor, cost, and access to medical back - up should a complication arise.

Powerful labor forces who backed Mr. Rangel last time around may also be more inclined to stay neutral this year after seeing lefty allies like Ms. Mark - Viverito defect from the incumbent.

Their unemployment hovers around 49 percent, according to the Bureau of Indian Affairs» most recent labor force report in 2005.

My husband and I walked around labor and delivery until 7 AM when they checked my cervix again and found that I was forced 4 cmdilated and admitted me to the natural birthing room.

In Missouri, for example, teacher labor - force data show that retirement rates spike when the sum of age and experience is around 80 — consistent with the incentives embedded in that state's «rule of eighty» eligibility formula.

From the country doctor who adopts Jane to the hard tactile labor of farm life, from the highly erotic world of nature around her to the boy who loved but was forced to leave her, the world of Miss Jane Chisolm is anything but barren.

There is greater labor competition around the world, forcing down wages on the low end.

Cronin gathered hundreds of articles of women's and girls» clothing from around the world to represent three specific tragedies: brightly - colored saris symbolize two Indian girls who were kidnapped, gang - raped, and lynched from a tree at the edge of their village; hijabs signify 276 Nigerian Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram in 2014 — over 200 of whom still remain missing; and gray and white aprons & uniforms symbolize those worn by «fallen women,» in forced labor at the Magdalene Asylums and Laundries in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the U.S.

Only 10 percent of the current United Arab Emirates population is native, with the rest coming from around the Middle East, Europe, and mainly South Asia, whose labor force feeds the country's insatiable construction needs.

Cronin gathered hundreds of articles of women's and girls» clothing from around the world to represent three specific tragedies: brightly - colored saris symbolize two Indian girls who were kidnapped, gang - raped, and lynched from a tree at the edge of their village; hijabs signify 276 Nigerian Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram in 2014 — over 200 of whom still remain missing; and gray and white aprons & uniforms symbolize those worn by «fallen women,» in forced labor at the Magdalene Asylums and Laundries in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the U.S. Moving from the marble alters and sacred architecture of Venice's sixteenth - century Chiesa di San Gallo to the secular gallery context of FLAG, Cronin will present the same three fabric sculptures, here piled on top of their shipping crates to now address human trafficking as well as human rights issues.

I have been in the Oil & Gas industry since 1976 and started in the labor force for around 6 years and moved in to sales for Drilling Tools Inc.at that time and was made their sales manager and eventually their district manager.I do have a lot of tool and BOP / Manifold and Flange training.

For example, concerns remain around structural unemployment and the falling labor force participation rate.»