21.   The new rules should seek to outlaw child and forced labour, not branch out into the area of low wages, the ministers agreed.

22.   The office, a cornerstone of an agreement with the government in Rangoon aimed at curbing forced labour in Myanmar, is due to open this month.

23.   The project has also been under fire from human rights activists, who have alleged that forced labour has been used by Burmese authorities to build a nearby railway.

24.   The soldiers had been taken prisoner during World War II and used as forced labour in building houses in Moscow.

25.   The UN report said Burmese local authorities had been making more and more use of forced labour in rural areas in the last four years.

26.   Their terms would be served with forced labour.

27.   Total is helping to build a pipeline between Burma and Thailand for which the Burmese military junta has provided forced labour.

28.   Two of the accused were sentenced to three years of forced labour, and four others to two years in jail.

29.   Two other defendants were sentenced to three years of forced labour and four more to two years in jail.

30.   Veterans are anxious that the suffering connected to the building of the railway by forced labour should not be commercially exploited.