Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said that he both anticipated and welcomed a possible audit from the Department of Labor within a year because "it keeps us on our toes and helps us be specific about the things we want to accomplish and stick to those things...
...keynote address early Saturday afternoon, Harry Wu, a prominent international human rights activist, spoke of the horrors he had witnessed while incarcerated in Chinese "Laogai," or labor camps...
Following the speech, Wu showed two brief documentaries. One documentary, which he produced with "60 Minutes," was about the labor camps. The other, produced with the BBC, showed prisoners being executed so their organs could be sold to foreigners for transplant...
Because he believes that economic liberalization will eventually yield political pluralism, Forbes has long abhorred linking trade issues to an improvement in China's abysmal human-rights record. "But I'd support another U.N. vote deploring things like Beijing's prison labor camps," he says. "You don't forget your values just because you want to make money...
...continues to labor as an advocate for human rights and freedom as the executive director of the non-profit Langoi Research Foundation which is devoted to documenting the conditions of China's work-camps...