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• China Releases Uyghur Church Leader from Prison

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 138
  Osman Imin freed after two years; concerns remain over incarcerated Alimjan Yimit.LOS ANGELES, November 24 (CDN) — A Uyghur Christian in China’s troubled Xinjiang region was released last week after serving two years in a labor camp for alleged “illegal proselytizing” and “leaking state secrets,” according ...
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• LL Bean Responds with Grace

  
  Labor is Not a Commodity — Authority: 416
  Bama Athreya, Executive Director, ILRF   Just in time for Thanksgiving, the outdoor clothing brand LL Bean has made a significant commitment to work with ILRF to end forced child labor in cotton.  Last week, we released our Sweatshop Hall of Shame , and to our surprise, were compelled to name LL Bean as one ...
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• Chinese Forced Labor in Wartime Japan

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 637
  In late October, it was announced that the Japanese Nishimatsu Construction Co. reached a $2.74 million settlement with Chinese wartime forced laborers. The article “Assessing the Nishimatsu Corporate Approach to Redressing Chinese Forced Labor in Wartime Japan” in a recent issue of JapanFocus takes a look ...
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• Colbert takes on child labor

  
  Labor is Not a Commodity — Authority: 416
  Tim Newman, Campaigns Director, International Labor Rights Forum Last week, I wrote about how big businesses in the US are lobbying against bans on the importation of products made using forced and child labor and linked to a clip from the Rachel Maddow Show .  Sadly, this is not the first time companies like ...
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• Get them off the human trafficking bus

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 581
  From McCann Kenya comes a visually-compelling and direct message to stop human trafficking, especially of children. The public awareness campaign through transit ads serve to spread the message quickly, and with a visual connect that is readily comprehensible, action-inducing, agitating, and graphic as any visual ...
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• Purchasing Ethics: Picking out Clothing With Limited Information

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 515
  The United States Department of Labor has come out with a 194-page report in which it identifies products made in various countries under conditions where “there is a significant incidence of forced labor and/or child labor in production”. The following are countries in which the Department of Labor finds there ...
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• Was That Christmas Toy Made by Children or Slaves?

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 515
  Inhale near a mall and the Oriental Trading Company will put you on its mailing list. OTC, in case you’ve haven’t inhaled near a mall over the past 15 years, is a mail-order catalog warehouse operation selling kids’ toys at ridiculously inexpensive prices. “Wow,” you may ask yourself as you flip through ...
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• Rachel Maddow takes on corporations defending child and forced labor

  
  Labor is Not a Commodity — Authority: 416
  Tim Newman, Campaigns Director, International Labor Rights Forum Recently, Rachel Maddow picked up on an article written by David Sirota about how business groups are lobbying against provisions in a customs bill that contains provisions banning the importation of goods produced by convict labor, forced labor or ...
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• Lebanon: Deadly Month for Domestic Workers

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 694
  (Beirut) - The Lebanese government should investigate the deaths of eight migrant domestic workers during October 2009, as well as the reasons for the disproportionately high death rate among this group of workers, Human Rights Watch said today. An estimated 200,000 domestic workers, primarily from Sri Lanka, the ...
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• Bahrain: Migrant Workers Denied Pay, Right to Travel

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 694
  (New York) - Bahrains Labor Ministry should hold employers who withhold wages and passports from migrant employees accountable, Human Rights Watch said today. Both practices are illegal under Bahraini law, but authorities do little to enforce compliance. read more
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• France: Abolish Airport Limbo for Migrant Children

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 694
  Frances system of detaining and deporting unaccompanied migrant children who arrive in Paris by air puts them at serious risk, Human Rights Watch said today. The conclusions are based on the 60-page report, " Lost in Transit: Insufficient Protection for Unaccompanied Migrant Children at Roissy Charles de Gaulle ...
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• I Can Prove That You Are a Slave in America

  
  Konfusing Kancer — Authority: 114
  When someone mentions “slavery” we immediately think of black people being forced to work for free. If they do not work for us for free then we beat them with fists, whips, or threaten death. Sure the 13th Amendment was ratified in 1865, but I contend that slavery still continues today and with even greater ...
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