Sentences with phrase «forced labour around»

According to the International Labour Organisation, there are almost 21 million people in forced labour around the world — 11.4 million women and girls, and 9.5 million men and boys.

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In Canada and the United States, for example, the annual growth rate of the labour force slowed from around 1 1/4 per cent in 2006 to less than 1/2 per cent in 2016.11 This decline has reduced potential output growth and investment demand.

This partly reflects a shrinking labour force owing to the ageing of the population, but it is consistent with the payrolls survey, which reports that employment has grown by around 1/2 per cent over the year.

The participation rate has returned to around 63 3/4 per cent in recent months, following the bedding down of the changes to the Labour Force Survey.

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The countries of the European Union have on average around 6 researchers per 1,000 workers in the labour force; the number is 8.1 in the U.S. and 9.1 in Japan.

It is now a known fact that despite the great advancement made by the international women rights movement over many years, women and girls around the world are still married as children or are trafficked into forced labour and slavery.

The government claims the changes in eligibility will mean that 50,000 more pupils will become eligible for free school meals, while Labour and the Children's Society say around a million children who have become eligible under the transitional arrangements stand to lose out once the new system fully comes into force.

If there's one thing we've learned from history is that humanity is essentially just waiting around for either an incredibly intelligent AI of our own devising or a bunch of aliens to turn up and enslave us all, because when put under the whip we make a solid, if slightly whiny, labour force.

The effective labour force is also growing at around 3 per cent, thanks to demographic transition and migration from rural areas.

Around one million people in the UK (3 — 4 % of the labour force) now work on zero hours contracts, according to research by the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD); about four times more than recent figures from the Office for National Statistics suggested.

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 andForced Labour, there were an estimated 20.9 million people in forced labor around the world at any given point between 2002 andforced labor around the world at any given point between 2002 and 2012.

Forced labour is all around us, but not how you think.

In a speech last month, Mr. Poloz warned that central banks around the world are dealing with powerful global forces that are keeping rates low, including weak business investment and waves of retiring baby boomers leaving the labour force.