Word: laboral
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...used by the U.S. State Department to highlight the severity and widespread nature of human trafficking, is one of many alarming personal accounts included in its 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. According to the State Department, at least 12.3 million adults and children worldwide are subjected to forced labor, sexual servitude and stolen organs, with the global financial crisis heightening the problem through the increased demand for cheap labor, services - and even body parts. (See pictures of crime in Middle America...
2.On identifying victims: "The nationalities of trafficked people are as diverse as the world's cultures. Some leave developing countries seeking to improve their lives through low-skilled jobs in more-prosperous countries. Others fall victim to forced or bonded labor in their own countries. Women, eager for a better future, are susceptible to promises of jobs abroad as babysitters, housekeepers, waitresses or models - jobs that traffickers turn into the nightmare of forced prostitution without exit. Some families give children to adults, often relatives, who promise education and opportunity but instead sell the children into exploitative situations for money...
...decade and a half since anyone in Congress has attempted to put together a major overhaul of the health-care system, and no one on Capitol Hill or in the White House these days is under any illusions that it will come easy. But as the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee on Wednesday becomes the first to begin the process of formally drafting a bill - one that members will call the Affordable Health Choices Act - it's already clear that the task will be that much tougher because of the absence of the committee...
...Congressional Budget Office as deficit neutral, and it lays out a more comprehensive approach. Senator Judd Gregg, the top Republican on the Budget Committee, also recently laid out a proposal that expands private health-insurance coverage; and Senator Mike Enzi, the top Republican on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has said he too is working on legislation. Some of the bills aren't actually meant to be comprehensive. The patients' bill introduced by Senator Mitch McConnell and Senator Jon Kyl would simply bar the government from using comparative-effectiveness research to reduce costs in Medicare and Medicaid...
...Beijing lawyer Li Chunfu went to the southwestern city of Chongqing with a colleague to meet with the family of a man who died in a labor camp. While meeting with the family, Li and lawyer Zhang Kai were detained by police. Li was chained to a chair and punched, while Zhang, also roughed up during their arrest, was locked in a cage. Their transgression? They were representing the family of Jiang Xiqing, a man who belonged to the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement. After a few hours of questioning, the Jiangjin district police released them around midnight. "We were...