They are an alphabet-soup of visas with names like H-1B, H-2A, H-2B, J-1 and A-3, all having their own rules and little in common except, the report said, workers who are frequently victimized by "fraud, discrimination, severe economic coercion, retaliation, blacklisting and, in some cases, forced labor, indentured servitude, debt bondage and human trafficking".
The high level of coercion and severe long-term health consequences separate FGM from other elective surgeries, but the similarities should shine a light again on how just how steeped we are in dictatorial social norms.
The high level of coercion and severe long-term health consequences separate FGM from other elective surgeries, but the similarities should shine a light – again – on how just how steeped we are in dictatorial social norms.
Since it was set up in 2004, the scheme has helped 113 students, including some who have been in local authority care, resisted coercion into arranged marriage, and battled with severe physical disabilities.
If they are combined we can claim that coercion, violence and slavery are very commonly associated with severe setbacks to the autonomy and welfare of persons, but not invariably so.
Because the trafficker did not use force, fraud, or coercion as defined under the Act, he did not engage in a severe form of trafficking in persons and therefore cannot be prosecuted under the TVPA.
In other countries where there's severe discrimination against HIV+ people and individual privacy is not valued, name-based registers can be used for coercion.
In other countries where there's severe discrimination against HIV+ people and individual privacy is not valued, name-based registers can be used for coercion.
But the new report cites "repression and coercion" of rights advocates, tight restrictions on political dissidents, curbs on journalists and on Internet access, and "severe cultural and religious repression" of ethnic Uighurs and Tibetans.
