The Fight against the Forced Labor and the Human Trafficking in Central Asia by L. Yu. Gusev

“…The article deals with the combat of forced labor and human trafficking in Central Asia. It is noted that this problem has emerged since the early 90s, when these countries got the independence, due to the difficult economic situation, activity of extremist organizations. …”
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Exil pénal et circulations forcées dans l’Empire colonial français by Linda Amiri

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Un établissement pénitentiaire singulier dans «l’archipel punitif» de l’armée française en Algérie : L’établissement des fers de Douera puis de Bône (1855-1858) by Nadia Biskri

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Ženská nucená práce v českých zemích 1939–1945 by Dana Musilová, Pavla Plachá

“… Forced labor was one of the fundamental pillars of the German war economy. …”
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Ottobah Cugoano on British Slavery, National Debt, and Speculative Finance by Carrie DeAnne Shanafelt

“…In his Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787), Quobna Ottobah Cugoano theorized that the creditors of the rapidly growing national debt had begun to use their growing financial leverage to manipulate the political priorities of Great Britain in order to deepen national dependence on plantation slavery and expand moral complicity in human trafficking and forced labor. This article examines Cugoano's charge of national guilt in the context of eighteenth-century debates about public debt and the profits of slave-trading, as well as in the context of twenty-first-century financial exploitation of global disasters and labor abuse.…”
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Time and The Diary in Captivity, a Case Study: The Diary of Fela Szeps (1942-1944) by Batsheva Ben-Amos

“…She kept a clandestine diary between April 1942 and November 1944 in the Grünberg forced-labor camp in Silesia, Poland.…”
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Old believers in the 20th century of Lithuania by Grigorijus Potašenko

“…The Nazis deported some of them to forced labor camps. In the time of the war, some oratories were destroyed, and some Old Believers died.   …”
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Navigating global fashion policy: labor, environment, and future directions for sustainability by Meital Peleg Mizrachi

“…Key initiatives include the Bangladesh Accord, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains, California’s SB62 law, and the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. Proposed measures, such as France’s fast-fashion tax and the New York Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act, further highlight the growing recognition of fashion's impacts. …”
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A Data-Driven Review of the Financial Performance and Environmental Compliance of Shariah-Compliant Businesses by Hassan Syed, Rahmi Deniz Özbay, Klemens Katterbauer, Sema Yılmaz Genç

“…As a result, there has been an increase in the divestment of firms that use forced labor, lack diversity in their workforces, and operate in highly polluting sectors. …”
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Poverty and Child Trafficking in Kabale District: A Case Study of Kabale Municipality. by Tusingwire, Angella

“…The study findings also indicated that the majority of respondents strongly agreed that traffickers receive huge amounts of money from potential victims and their families, trafficked children are forced into a difficult and exploitative condition of labor, and health care is the main challenge for trafficked children, due to physical and emotional abuse, depression and symptoms of anxiety are some of the signs of the physical and psychological trauma of victims trafficked and children are trafficked for domestic servitude and commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. The study findings indicated that the majority of respondents strongly agreed that push factors are responsible for the trafficking of women especially for those who have a background characterized by poverty, children are trafficked for sexual exploitation and labor in Kabale Municipality and child trafficking is a result of lack of opportunities and structural inequalities in Kabale Municipality.…”
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The Role of the London Missionary Society and Church Missionary Society in the Abolition of Oozhiyam (Bonded Labor Service) in Kerala by Ayyappan Balakrishnan

“…In the social structure of Kerala, the bonded or forced labor system was an unavoidable factor of slavery. …”
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The Great Vietnamese Famine of 1944-45 Revisited by Geoffrey Gunn

“…While such charged issues as the Nanjing Massacre, the comfort women, forced labor and unit 731 have long been the subject of intense debate in the historical memory wars, in textbook controversies and museum exhibits, the Vietnamese famine, and Japan’s role in creating it, appear to have disappeared from Japanese war memory and commemoration whether in textbooks or museum representations. …”
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