Sentences with phrase «slave labor in»

«I think the new clinic will help victims of slave labor in Brazil, and also that this is our opportunity to collaborate on international and cross-border cases.»»

Most people do not want to contribute to destroying our planet's ecosystems, nor do people want to support child slave labor in the Ivory Coast when eating their favorite chocolate bar.

Brazilian authorities announced Thursday they are seeking $ 1.2 billion in fines against 14 companies accused of buying beef from farms exploiting illegally deforested areas or slave labor in the Amazon.

Sugar cane has not been immune: of the 5,877 workers freed in 2007 from conditions analogous to slave labor in Brazil, 2,947 had been sugar - cane cutters.

Slave labor in the diamond mining industry isn't limited to adults.

, featuring the story of one young African boy who was used for slave labor in a cocoa plantation along the Ivory Coast, will get him a Pulitzer Prize.

There is also the issue of slave labor in reference to their other products.

Absolutely no slave labor in our supply chain.

Refined white sugar not only goes through numerous steps to bleach / purify / refine (this interesting video follows the process of making sugar: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/209980401349666657/), but it also promotes slave labor in poor countries around the world.

pay them non livable wage, no medical no benefits all so they can keep prices down on products produced in slave labor in counties that hate the united states.

Or in the case of electronics you may by products made with slave labor in Vietnam.

It makes people murder for oil, buy big homes they can't afford when they could be contributing to those in dire need around the world, and buy all the designer goods they can, regardless that they are contributing to slave labor in China...

Not exact matches

In 1918, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips published «American Negro Slavery,» which framed slavery as a labor agreement between masters and happy slaves — facile thinking that persists today.

In Germany during the 1990s, victims of forced and slave labor during the Holocaust negotiating a compensation agreement with the German government objected that financial reparations alone would amount to blood money, an appeasement through payoff.

Slaves and Bond servants were part of the labor force in the day.

Genocide, slave labor, and gross social inequality... the list of atrocities committed in the name of Godlessness is endless.

I forgot to add... in case you haven't pulled your head out long enough to notice your economy... Christians are packing up your «American Dream» and shipping it off to atheist communist slave labor China.

I am willing to fight for awareness of that; And the numerous cults utilizing slave labor right in in the US.

How about in your faces at the local slave labor salvation army!!

That's why US corporations abolished the tariffs that once protected our economy from the slave labor that is made available in countries such as China.

Savar, Bangladesh (CNN)- Pope Francis, speaking at a Mass on Wednesday, made reference to the Bangladesh building collapse that killed upwards of 400 people in a sharp condemnation of worker exploitation and «slave labor.»

As proof of this fact, you should understand that it wasn't so long ago that white settlers in this country held black slaves to forced labor, and virtually all religions of those days condoned the practice.

Even with free slave labor, USA was still in «toddler» development stages 45 yrs after independence.

During a recent interview with Fresh Air's Terry Gross, Winslow explained that in the past, Mexican drug cartels routinely kidnapped women and young girls — after murdering their husbands and fathers — and forced them into slave labor on giant marijuana farms.

And, unfortunately, the average American consumer can play a significant role in the demand for slave labor without even realizing it in the products they purchase.

On Wednesday, the Pope Francis made reference to a building collapse in Bangladesh that killed upwards of 400 people in a sharp condemnation of worker exploitation and «slave labor.»

Sure, Mitt Romney gives more to «charity» (meaning, directly to the Mormon Church), but then, he's gotten incredibly wealthy by shutting down profitable American companies in order to benefit personally from the near - slave labor available in China.

And how well did that work for slaves the first 300 years, child labor exploited and coal miners and factory workers suffering horrific working conditions and safety issues in the early 1900's, women still fighting the glass ceiling that exists, etc.?

and that therefore the British could be appealed to «as strongly by their regard for the slaveholder as for the slave, to labor in this cause» (MBMF 417).

In the aristocratic society, labor is for slaves, not for free men.

They were the underside of a process in which, for five centuries, Western colonizing countries had stripped the colonized countries of their wealth, using cheap or slave labor, in order to build up the wealth which now underlies Western capitalism.

But despite the real gains in social morality that came in the wake of the abolition of the slave trade, despite the rise in the status of women, despite the benefits that came from the enactment of child - labor laws and the establishment of the welfare state, did not the nineteenth century also bequeath to us those proposed «solutions» to social ills that led to mass starvation in Russia and China, to the utopian nightmares of communism and fascism, to wars unending, and ¯ in those societies that actually managed to abolish most social evils ¯ to a hedonism that is undermining society from within?

A number of modern urban newspapers, such as the Baltimore Sun, the Richmond Times — Dispatch, and the Hartford Courant ran advertisements before the Civil War for the sale of slaves or the recapture of runaways; all four of the major North American railroads own rail lines that were built with slave labor; the founder of Lehman Bros. bought slaves as workers for the firm when it was founded in pre — Civil War Alabama.

If we are mindful and willing to take some stands, say, against restaurants with gross kitchens or companies that treat employees badly (though, this is often in the eye of the beholder) or chocolate companies that use slave labor or companies that abuse God's creation, change can happen.

So I went to the «slave market» (day labor, show up at 5 a.m. and hope you get called to clean restrooms, work in warehouses or chop weeds..

British abolitionist William Wilberforce, when he was laboring to abolish slavery in England, led small tours of slave ships.

You if you live in one of there slave labor buildings are not allowed even one day off a week to search for a job.

If that sounds absurd and horrifying, keep in mind that it's possible that up to 75 percent of chocolate consumed in developed countries is harvested by child labor, many of whom are outright slaves.

Nevertheless, the memorabilia of inhumanity with a Russian face are indelible: the birch, the knout, the Cossack's saber, the cattle car, the Arctic slave - labor camp, the nine grams of lead in the back of the skull.

In her earlier, Pulitzer Prize - winning study Gulag, Applebaum demonstrated that the slave - labor camps of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's «archipelago» were not incidental to the Soviet enterprise, but an integral part of it, economically and politically.

If the cultivation of the greatest amount of Mill's higher or intellectual pleasures could be realized in a certain society only by the slave labor of a small group within that society, then it appears that we would, according to the principle of utility, be required to enslave that group in order to promote the greatest happiness.

Would an absolutely autocratic master administration, involved in gigantic building operations, voluntarily and radically reduce its potential male slave labor?

Not all women in prostitution are «sex slaves,» and the majority of migrant men, women and children to suffer labor exploitation.

The conditions that make human trafficking possible and profitable arise not just in the poor countries that supply slaves but wherever the demand for unprotected labor is outmatched only by the wealth and greed of those who pay for it.

There were still slaves who were treated little better than cattle — those with little or no skills — who did a significant portion of manual labor in the days of the Empire.

Henry rejected liberal versions of the social gospel which tended to be all social and no gospel, but he appealed to an earlier evangelical consensus of cultural engagement that included the work of William Wilberforce in campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade in England, the revivalist impulses of Charles G. Finney against slavery in this country, as well as evangelical concerns for suffrage, temperance, child labor laws, fair wages for workers, and many other progressive issues to which many theologically conservative Christians were once committed» before what David Moberg has called «the great reversal,» an evangelical withdrawal from such concerns.

After laboring all day for their master, the slaves would creep stealthily to Milla's «schoolroom» (a little cabin in a hack alley).

The Egyptians should not have oppressed the Hebrews; the hard labor of the slaves raised a cry to heaven which in turn brought divine retribution in the plagues and the incidents of the exodus.

That year, the mandatory, four - year post-slavery apprenticeship ended and some 20,000 slaves who worked the enormous sugar cane plantations left the estates and became squatters — resulting in an enormous labor shortage.

But giving your mom a speech about how you are morally superior to her for not eating animals is false logic, considering the slave labor used to produce your fruits, vegetables, nuts, and other delicious animal - free ingredients (coffee, sugar, bananas, mangos, berries, peaches, and cashews are just a few examples of foods imported from the third world where workers are severely mistreated and underpaid, or farmed by underpaid Mexican immigrants in the US).