How to Use forced labor in a Sentence

forced labor

noun

• The lawmakers also said the U.S. should block the import of seafood tied to North Korean forced labor.
  — Richard Vanderford, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
• Some 350 were eventually sent east to the Berga forced labor camp, where a number perished.
  — Richard Hurowitz, Time, 19 Aug. 2023
• After it was published, the U.S. Department of Labor added açaí to its list of goods produced by child or forced labor.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
• The system tracks vessels that carry a box that sends out radio signals, and the data has been used in the past to document overfishing and forced labor on vessels.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 3 Jan. 2024
• The Wilberforce Act covers physical abuse and peonage, which is forced labor.
  — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2024
• Both companies were among the Japanese businesses that relied on Korean forced labor during the war and were named in the lawsuit brought before the Supreme Court.
  — Choe Sang-Hun, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2023
• The Chinese government has imposed a system of mass, forced labor by hundreds of thousands of Uyghyrs in Xinjiang’s sprawling cotton fields.
  — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2023
• In a 24-minute court statement, Spears detailed her version of the last 13 years of her life, alleging abuse, forced labor and lack of autonomy over her body and reproductive rights.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2023
• Washington and its allies can trace and expose the supply chains behind products made with North Korean forced labor and ban them from being sold in their borders.
  — Sue Mi Terry, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2024
• That would include companies that partner with the Chinese military or have ties to forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region.
  — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• For much of the world, China’s Xinjiang region is notorious, a place where ethnic Uyghurs face forced labor and arbitrary detention.
  — Didi Tang, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2023
• Another valuable resource is the Sweat & Toil app, which contains country profiles and information on child labor and forced labor.
  — Andrea Hill, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
• The series also engages with very real systemic issues such as corporate greed, forced labor and the exploitation of natural resources in a kid-friendly way.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• In 1875, the Page Act was enacted purportedly to restrict prostitution and forced labor.
  — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 6 May 2023
• Both companies have published codes of conduct prohibiting suppliers and business partners from using child and forced labor.
  — Qadri Inzamam Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
• In these scenes, a girl goes on solitary and secretive routines of gathering (seemingly where bodies are buried) and of depositing (of apples beside shovels where inmates likely do forced labor).
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2023
• Not only did the villagers receive firsthand news of conditions—and atrocities—on the various battlefronts from their soldiers returning home on leave, but Dachau sub-camps and forced labor camps were also located close by.
  — Julia Boyd, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
• The widespread use of surveillance, extrajudicial detention, and forced labor in Xinjiang in recent years represents the lengths to which the government will go to extract compliance from the country’s residents.
  — Gina Anne Tam, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2023
• Through its years-long crackdown, China has sent 1 million or more Uyghurs and Turkic minorities to a sprawling network of reeducation centers while subjecting them to sterilization, forced labor and torture.
  — Dan Keane, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
• The complaint accuses Ye, Yeezy and the rapper’s former chief of staff, Milo Yiannopoulos, of fostering a toxic workplace characterized by racial discrimination, forced labor and a failure to pay employees for their work.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2024
• Many mining sites in these nations have been reported for systemic use of child labor, forced labor, and human rights abuses, especially for the cobalt supply chain, according to the International Energy Agency.
  — WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
• Within six years, Berlin’s fashion companies, most of which were Jewish, were expropriated, the fashion designers were expelled, forced labor was established and the creative industry that had existed since 1836 was destroyed.
  — Uwe Westphal, Sun Sentinel, 16 July 2024
• This content is generating significant backlash as journalists and civil rights groups have reported on Shein’s human rights violations, hazardous working conditions and forced labor practices.
  — Byalexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 27 June 2023
• There are forced labor considerations associated with modules.
  — Jason Kaminsky, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024