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Atheism and forced labor (view source)
Revision as of 12:46, August 18, 2019
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According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), about 800,000 people are subject to forced labor in Myanmar.<ref>"[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/GC29Ae02.html ILO cracks the whip at Yangon]". Atimes.com. 29 March 2005. Retrieved 4 December 2011.</ref>
According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), about 800,000 people are subject to forced labor in Myanmar.<ref>"[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/GC29Ae02.html ILO cracks the whip at Yangon]". Atimes.com. 29 March 2005. Retrieved 4 December 2011.</ref>
== Vietnam and forced labor ==
According to the website LaborRights.com:
{{Cquote|Across Vietnam, some 30,000 men, women, and children are being held against their will in state-run detention centers, forced to work, and beaten all in the name of “drug treatment.”
The victims are alleged drug addicts who are held for periods of two to four years without ever receiving a hearing or a trial in a court of law.
Drug center detainees are forced to work under harsh conditions for little or no pay doing a range of repetitive tasks, like sewing t-shirts or mosquito bed nets, painting stone trinkets, and processing cashews, often for private companies. As punishment for refusing to work, violating center rules, or simply not filling a daily quota, detainees report being beaten with wooden truncheons, shocked with electrical batons, or placed in solitary confinement.
Vietnam’s use of forced labor as drug treatment clearly violates international law, including ILO Convention 29, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The detention centers are also an ineffective form of drug treatment: it is estimated that over 90 percent of former detainees return to using drugs shortly after release. In 2012, twelve UN agencies, including the ILO, World Health Organization (WHO), and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), issued a joint public statement calling for the closure of compulsory drug detention centers, citing the use of forced labor and the lack of evidence-based drug treatment.<ref>[https://laborrights.org/our-work/forced-labor-vietnam Forced Labor in Vietnam]</ref>}}
== Christian apologetics and slavery in the Bible ==
== Christian apologetics and slavery in the Bible ==