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Forced Labour

Acts Causing or Intending Harm to the Person

Forced labour, also called unfree labour, is any work relationship, most often documented in modern or early modern history, in which people are made to work against their will through the threat of destitution, detention, violence, death or other extreme hardship to themselves or members of their families. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Elements of Offense
All involuntary work or service exacted under the menace of a penalty (International Labour Organization definition) 1
Notable Example
Concentration camp system run by Nazi Germany in Europe during World War II 1
Classification
Offense Grade
Serious or Indictable Offense 1
Connections

Has Offense Grade

Entity-backed identity for the offense-grade enum value this offense already carries, resolved to a crime concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The offense-grade fact itself stays on the offense unchanged.

Sources
1. Forced labour (Wikipedia)
  • Labour camps section
    The best-known example of this are the concentration camp system run by Nazi Germany in Europe during World War II
  • Definition section
    defined by the International Labour Organization (ILO) as all involuntary work or service exacted under the menace of a penalty
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