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Before the legislation, commanders and business elites were by far the main profiteers from the trade, and the majority of miners worked in slave-like conditions, as Free the Slaves and Congolese human rights organizations have documented.

Sasha Lezhnev: What Conflict Minerals Legislation Is Actually Accomplishing in Congo Sasha Lezhnev 2011

Before the legislation, commanders and business elites were by far the main profiteers from the trade, and the majority of miners worked in slave-like conditions, as Free the Slaves and Congolese human rights organizations have documented.

Sasha Lezhnev: What Conflict Minerals Legislation Is Actually Accomplishing in Congo Sasha Lezhnev 2011

As migrants poured into Pará, wildcat loggers and ranchers fanned out through the jungle, causing rampant deforestation, bloody conflicts over land and resources and slave-like labor conditions for some workers.

New Pockets of Influence Emerge in Brazil Paulo Prada 2011

Before the legislation, commanders and business elites were by far the main profiteers from the trade, and the majority of miners worked in slave-like conditions, as Free the Slaves and Congolese human rights organizations have documented.

Sasha Lezhnev: What Conflict Minerals Legislation Is Actually Accomplishing in Congo Sasha Lezhnev 2011

Yet how can they serve as a bridge with a government that has shown little respect for the rights, freedom and dignity for its own citizens or the hundreds of thousands of migrant workers who work in slave-like conditions in the country?

Samer Muscati: The UAE's Silenced Spring Samer Muscati 2011

No multi-cultural embrace of slave-like conditions for women.

Sharon Waxman: Remembering 9/11: On the Importance of Intolerance Sharon Waxman 2011

All say they were forced to work without pay and described slave-like conditions including inadequate medical care, food and shelter, as well as beatings, torture, and summary executions.

Rights Groups Say Burma Army Using Prison Labor on Front Lines 2011

All say they were forced to work without pay and described slave-like conditions including inadequate medical care, food and shelter, as well as beatings, torture, and summary executions.

Rights Groups Say Burma Army Using Prison Labor on Front Lines 2011

No multi-cultural embrace of slave-like conditions for women.

Sharon Waxman: Remembering 9/11: On the Importance of Intolerance Sharon Waxman 2011

Tang Chhin Sothy/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A Cambodian policeman escorted thirty trafficked fishermen at Phnom Penh International airport on Monday, after they were freed from slave-like conditions on Thai fishing vessels.

Asia in Pictures 2011