Can the U.S. End Supply Chain Links to Forced Uighur Labor?
A Chinese cargo ship. (Kees Torn, https://tinyurl.com/iiwcrl7a; CC BY-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en)
Recent reporting on the human rights crisis in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region has revealed the United States to be a major consumer in the global marketplace for forced Uighur labor. It is a near certainty that some goods currently being sold in the United States though it is difficult to say which ones were made, wholly or in part, by Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in furtherance of their forced “reeducation” in China.
Bella’s experience is not rare; it was part of an organized criminal enterprise that systematically trafficked children for forced labor, according to Hounakey, who is now an advocate for trafficking survivors. More than 20 children worked alongside her, forced to provide services, such as braiding, in a hair salon operated by her traffickers.
Hounakey’s story is emblematic of the global trafficking of child laborers between countries thousands of miles apart. Yet children are trafficked every day in their own countries as well.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Affairs (ILAB) works to put an end to these serious abuses around the world. We use a three-pronged approach, employing cutting-edge research and reporting, engagement with foreign governments and other stakeholders, and technical assistance projects.
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