How to Use forced labor in a Sentence

forced labor

noun
  • So, this was a place of both horror, forced labor and of refuge.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Feb. 2025
  • The code prohibits child labor or forced labor and sets out standards for time off and safe working conditions.
    — Corina Vanek, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Some 350 were eventually sent east to the Berga forced labor camp, where a number perished.
    — Richard Hurowitz, Time, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The project aims to address child and forced labor in global supply chains by improving traceability for textiles.
    — Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 11 Sep. 2024
  • These groups control mining, smuggling routes, taxation systems, and even forced labor in Bolívar state.
    — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 6 June 2025
  • The Wilberforce Act covers physical abuse and peonage, which is forced labor.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2024
  • Just this week, 69 programs that combat child labor and forced labor abroad were axed by the Department of Labor.
    — Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
  • 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 pair are facing more than a dozen felony counts including civil rights violations, human trafficking, forced labor and gross child neglect, the news agency stated.
    — Becca Longmire, People.com, 22 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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 came after activists from outside the prison system called for a non-violent prison work stoppage to protest inhumane conditions in the institutions and forced labor by inmates.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Both Australia and the United Kingdom are looking at beefing up their modern slavery acts to more effectively tackle child and forced labor.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The report details allegations of rape, child prostitution, forced labor and trafficking linked to mining camps throughout the Amazon.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 13 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Xinjiang, long the center of allegations of genocide and forced labor and the cause of numerous sanctions, is also a new inland energy hub under China’s new energy law.
    — Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Church Pastor David Taylor, 53, is charged in federal court in Detroit with human trafficking conspiracy, forced labor and money laundering and is being held without bond, court records show.
    — Paul Egan, USA Today, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Jung also discussed efforts to combat trafficking and forced labor at salt farms and other sites and the widespread abuse of migrant workers, which has fueled long-standing criticism of South Korea’s exploitation of some of Asia’s most vulnerable people.
    — ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Rights groups accuse Beijing of widespread abuses of Uyghurs, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority that numbers around 10 million in the western region of Xinjiang, including the mass use of surveillance and forced labor in camps.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The activity involves forced labor alleged to have taken place through Kingdom of God Global Church, formerly known as Joshua Media Ministries International.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Those charges, brought in September 2024, include accusations of kidnapping, arson, forced labor and obstruction of justice and have Combs sitting in solitary confinement in a Brooklyn detention center without bail.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The development could be a harbinger of what’s to come as the USTR gears up to hold public hearings in early July regarding its recent Section 301 forced labor investigations into more than 60 countries.
    — Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 16 June 2026

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