The United States has banned imports of tires from a Chinese-owned factory in Serbia, citing evidence of forced labor. Former ...

For some of the world’s poorest people, BRICS — originally Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — is becoming a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By JAMEY KEATEN (Associated Press) GENEVA — Illegal profits from forced labor worldwide have risen to the “obscene” amount of $236 billion per year, the U.N.

The new U.S.-Malaysia trade agreement’s forced labor import ban requirement may pose new risks for Taiwanese electronics ...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) on Thursday urged companies worldwide to intensify efforts to prevent forced labor, a pervasive issue that continues to effect approximately 27.6 million individuals, ...

TILLERY, N.C. (WTVD) -- It takes more than 5,000 acres of land to keep one of the oldest state prisons in North Carolina running. The Roanoke River Correctional Institution is home to hundreds of male ...

(Bloomberg) -- The US expanded a ban on imports from China’s Xinjiang region, placing two more companies on its so-called entity list, the first additions since a law targeting forced labor in the ...

Illegal profits from forced labor worldwide have risen to the “obscene” amount of $236 billion per year, the U.N. labor agency reported Tuesday, with sexual exploitation to blame for three-fourths of ...

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It would be understandable to regard last week’s news about the scope of forced labor as dispiriting. Despite two decades of effort by governments, international institutions and civil society ...