Sentences with phrase «slave labour»

In my opinion the best thing we can do (both for the environment and our animal friends) is buying local, seasonal produce, that doesn't involve slave labour.

You don't have to be a parent to care about issues which affect children, like slave labour, child labour, and illegal formula marketing practices.

Their main temple, Crocodilopolis, was built on Mount Azimuth using slave labour in the place of a demolished temple to the Goddess.

But I felt deep shame about buying something that must involve slave labour in its production (how else do you make a pair of sandshoes, transport them to Australia and still make a profit with a $ 4 price tag?).

Armenians who weren't killed were either used as slave labour (and then murdered), sold into sex slavery, or forcibly converted to Islam.

On the 04/02/2010 the Daily Mail ran an article entitled â $ ˜The slave labour graduates: Cynical firms are forcing thousands of high flyers to work for nothing — or even making them pay for the privilegeâ $ ™.

They focus on making us not only look good (notice their cuts are more «forgiving» and less «punishing» than male designed fashion) but also feel good, knowing our clothes weren't made by slave labour from toxic, planet - killing fabrics.

Serious questions about business practices like using chocolate made with slave labour fell by the wayside, and people dismissed this as a mommyblogger catfight, though people like me were involved (and I'm about the furthest thing from a mommyblogger you could possibly imagine).

The brilliant Djimon Hounsou is farmer Solomon Vandy, separated from his family when his village is attacked and he's forced into slave labour digging for diamonds.

The stadia in Qatar have been touted as being exportable to the developing world, conveniently sweeping under the carpet the fact that major construction projects in the Middle East are universally resourced with slave labour imported form the sub-continent and the horn of Africa.

President Vladimir Putin has revived the old Stalinist vision that saw slave labour assembling cities on beds of permafrost.

We'd never allow what amounts to slave labour practices in Australia, so why are people okay buying items from overseas made in those conditions?

-- It is slave labour â $ «Forcing people to work for free is being deemed as unlawful and has been accused of being the modern day equivalent of â $ ˜slave labourâ $ ™.

Thousands of people are used as slave labour to carry military supplies, and forced to walk in front of army columns as human minesweepers.

On the 04/02/2010 the Daily Mail ran an article entitled â $ ˜The slave labour graduates: Cynical firms are forcing thousands of high...

(Hint: building a few houses in New Orleans five years after Katrina does not make up for using slave labour.

They are a big, competitive, ruthless, anti-union tax avoider that treats low level staff (like, say, warehouse employees) like slave labour.

To some — those living in Antwerp or London in 1944 and 1945 — he was the evil genius responsible for creating the V2 rocket, built with slave labour, that caused so much misery at the end of the Second World War.

Slave labour in the forests was far too valuable to waste on tending vegetables.

But it's not the firms wooing young talent that dominate the news — it's the ones using interns as slave labour.

«Segen Construction means a company which exploits its workers and uses slave labour.»

(If you use slave labour to build a wind turbine, is that an ethical source of energy?)

Using concepts from a long time ago, thought of by another society to set - up a relatively new country and doing so on the backs of slave labour... if that is called «establishing the system» then so be it.

He had a national threat forced into a slave labour force, and he didn't want to lose it.

Set in the future, humanity's genetic engineering technology allows for a slave labour force of «replicants» indistinguishable from humans.

Slave labour, one milliard persons in unvoluntary hunger, life - saving medicine not available where needed too, polluted air and water, murders,...; what does any doctrine of science say about these things?

Which got me thinking about another great human achievement, the Pyramids of Egypt, which, although arguable, were built from slave labour.

Slave Labour: The cocoa industry has been widely criticized for its child labour practices.

I'm not trying to change your eating habits, I just think that it is hypocritical to deem yourself morally righteous when you are contributing to slave labour.

So I asked them 17 questions on issues like breastfeeding support, compliance with the WHO International Code of Marketing of Breast - Milk Substitutes, health claims on their packaging, free formula samples, audits of their marketing practices, the history of the boycott, chocolate and slave labour, sodium in processed foods and more...

I was so angry at one point that I was actually shaking, as I had made a good faith effort to keep my tone civil, asking questions and not insulting or personally attacking (although I did ask several people tweeting about how much they loved eating Nestle chocolate about how they felt knowing that it was made with slave labour).

These include the use of child labour, sourcing chocolate from cacao farms which use slave labour, stealing rural water resources in the United States, marketing formula with questionable and sometimes outright illegal claims, etc etc..

Some Ghanaian agents mislead people and promise them mouth - watering salaries and incentives to take them to these countries where they end up in slave labour.

Despite this, Left Unity principle speaker Felicity Dowling said the proposals amount to «slave labour».

«It is not slave labour and the judge said nowhere near slave labour, however we do have to make sure that what we're doing is as clear as possible and that's a fair point,» work and pensions minister Esther McVey told the BBC.

You are there to be slave labour.

I think it was unfortunate and irresponsible for Wolff to write that all supervisors use their students only for «slave labour» and that they do «not want to see any intellectual development».

There are of course countless reasons woven into that: working conditions, child labour, slave labour, abusing the environment and the long term ramifications of fast fashion and over consumption of our world.

Thousands of islanders were deported, many to concentration camps, slave labour was common and rationing relentlessly severe.

Having already suffered the loss of their parents, the threat of marriage, slave labour, hypnosis, and the murder of their Uncle Monty and Aunt Josephine at the hands of the evil Count Olaf and his nefarious assistants, the siblings are ever - vigilant of his reappearance.

According to federal prosecutor Daniel Avelino, many of these companies have a track record of illegal practices: «Almost half of the companies involved in this scam have other law suits pending for environmental crimes or the use of slave labour, amongst other things.»

Recently there has been much publicity about graduates working for nothing, or indeed even paying to work, in the hope of making an impression and getting a paid job) see for example The Mail Online, 4 March 2010 — «The Slave Labour Graduates.»)

Scheme has attracted criticism in recent weeks with opponents describing it as a form of slave labour

Judge rejects graduate's claim that being forced to work unpaid at Poundland was «slave labour» and breached human rights

Activist groups have been pressuring firms to quit the scheme amid accusations that it was «slave labour» because young people worked for nothing while keeping their benefits.