10 Worst Countries for Forced Labor

[The Straight Story]

10 Worst Countries for Forced Labor

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 Forced labor in Burma ((photo: KHRG) The list of goods coming out of Asia that were produced using forced labor is a long one, and is mostly the product of two countries: China and Burma. These two nations, which have received plenty of criticism for their human rights records, lead the list of worst offenders of making citizens work against their will in factories, fields and mines.

According to the U.S. Labor Department, the 10 countries that use forced labor for the most different products, and the goods they produce while doing so, are:

· Burma (bamboo, beans , bricks, jade, palm thatch, physic nuts/castor beans, rice, rubber, rubies, sesame, shrimp, sugarcane, sunflower, teak)
· China (artificial flowers, bricks, Christmas decorations, coal, cotton, electronics, fireworks, footwear, garments, nails, toys)
· Pakistan (bricks, carpets, coal, cotton, sugarcane, wheat)
· North Korea (bricks, cement, coal, gold, iron, textiles)
· India (carpets, cottonseed , embroidered textiles, garments, rice, stones)
· Bolivia (Brazil nuts/chestnuts, cattle, corn, peanuts, sugarcane)
· Brazil (cattle, charcoal, sugarcane, timber)
· Nepal (bricks, carpets, embroidered textiles , stones)
· Nigeria (cocoa, granite, gravel)
· Peru (Brazil nuts/chestnuts, gold, timber)

http://www.allgov.com/US_and_the_World/ViewNews/10_Worst_Countries_for_Forced_Labor_101221

[Orrex]

1. I'm a little disappointed that the US isn't on that list

Of course, we sort of appear by proxy since we trade with a number of those countries for those very same goods.

[FreakinDJ]

2. Chinese forced labor holds a special place in my heart

China might be Second in forced Labor

but China is #1 in Executions

Notice the efficiency - No Trial - 1 Bullet

[stray cat]

3. This will make make many DUers very unhappy not to be recognized as the most persecuted

Workers in the world. Since we all know America is the worst country in tho world to live in and the American worker the poorest financially and the most oppressed.