Some of these children are bonded to their employer, forced to work to pay off the debt of advanced payments made to their parents. "However, as for the factory identified in the report, as far as we investigated, we could not confirm records of it being one of our business partners.". There are reports that adults are forced to produce tomato products in China. It is estimated that there are tens of thousands of workers who are sometimes recruited by agencies that deceive workers with false information regarding their wages and the terms of the contracts, and require the workers to pay recruitment fees and sign debt contracts. A smaller number of workers are subjected to forced labor through physical and sexual violence, verbal abuse, and threats of violence and dismissal. Some children inherit the debt of their parents if their parents pass away or stop working, and remain bonded and able to be sold to a different employer. "Following the publication of the ASPI report, Alstom and ex-Bombardier Transportation (BT) have undertaken a review of potential forced labour issues in the KTK Group factories supplying Alstom and ex-BT. Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous RegionWROFAQs, Hoshine Silicon Industry Co. Ltd WRO FAQs, Preparing for an Audit-Partnership in Responsible Trade, Hoshine WRO - Updated Guidance Document for Industry, North Korea Sanctions and Enforcement Actions Advisory: Risks for Businesses with Supply Chain Links to North Korea, 2020 CBP Virtual Trade Week Forced Labor Session. In addition to this, poor workers in rural areas may also experience coercion without detention. The 2020 Australian Strategic Policy Institute report also identified H&M among the companies that could have directly or indirectly benefited from forced labor in China. Approximately 5,915 child laborers growing lettuce are below the minimum age for employment in Paraguay. The children are forced to work long hours, up to 18 hours per day, sometimes late into the night, and with few breaks. According to an assessment by the ILO, as many as 500,000 stone quarry workers, including entire families, in Tamil Nadu were bonded laborers. CBP Modifies Forced Labor Finding on Top Glove Corporation Bhd. Others are forced to work, even if sick, and prevented from leaving the plantations through threat of physical violence, withheld payments, or denial of food. According to U.S. government and media reports, school-age children provide duties related to tending and caring for animals, often requiring them to travel long distances from home and be absent from school. In addition, sources indicate that workers are not provided access to adequate housing, basic healthcare, and water. @media (max-width: 992px){.usa-js-mobile-nav--active, .usa-mobile_nav-active {overflow: auto!important;}} ILAB maintains the List primarily to raise public awareness about forced labor and child labor around the world and to promote efforts to combat them; it is not intended to be punitive, but rather to serve as a catalyst for more strategic and focused coordination and collaboration among those working to address these problems. Children of the lower castes, socially disadvantaged classes in India, are particularly vulnerable. Some children are sold by their parents to traffickers, some are kidnapped, and others migrate willingly but fall victim to traffickers who sell them to recruiters or farmers, where they end up in conditions of bonded labor. For example, one human rights organization reports that thousands of school children extract amber, and that their labor is essential to the amber industry. Cobalt ore from the DRC was added to ILABs List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor in 2009 for child labor. In addition, the analysis indicates that 5.2 percent of working adolescents ages 15 to 17, or 1,625 adolescents, were also engaged in coffee production. A silk cocoon is the protective casing a silkworm spins around itself before metamorphosing into a moth. Based on a research report, close to 7,500 children are working under forced labor conditions in the sector. [CDATA[/* >
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