As the international outcry grows over the Chinese government’s arbitrary detention, forced labor and other egregious abuses against Turkic Muslims in the northwest region of Xinjiang, 12 Japanese companies recently told Kyodo News that they would “cease or consider ceasing business with business partners found to be using forced labor.”
How to ensure your clothes haven t been made using Uighur labour
Marks & Spencer has pledged to stop buying cotton from the devastated region - but will other brands join them?
18 February 2021 • 6:00am
A protest in Turkey against Chinese oppression of the Uighur community
Credit: AP
Earlier this month, an astounding BBC report was released, detailing the ways in which Uighur women have been systematically raped, sexually abused, and tortured in detention camps in Xinjiang, western China.
Or perhaps it wasn’t as astounding as all that. Horrific as the details are, we have known about the presence of these camps and the appalling treatment of the Uighurs – an ethnic-minority Muslim group who are also Chinese nationals – for years.
It is time for companies to step up efforts on forced labour
As governments and investors dial up heat on modern slavery, companies must catch up
In the first weeks of 2021, governments and investors have shown just what is possible when there is a will.
After making waves last year by issuing
import bans on a range of companies across sectors including two of the largest palm oil producers in the world, US Customs and Border Protection has now also banned imports from an entire region â even though that region produces a
On the investor side,
Blackrock, the worldâs largest asset manager â which is managing US$7 trillion in assets under management, more than the GDP of any country except the US and China â voted against the directors of rubber glove maker Top Glove at its annual general meeting earlier this month, because of a lack of respect for workersâ rights.
CHINA / SOCIETY By Global Times Published: Jan 13, 2021 01:34 AM
A worker in the Pomegranate Seed Garment Co. in Northwest China s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region agrees to have her photo taken. Photo: Fan Lingzhi/GT
The UK is reportedly set to tighten laws on imports related to China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region for so-called forced labor accusations, an impetuous move that has been made based on untenable “evidence” which will worsen the frosty China-UK ties, analysts said.
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was reportedly to make a statement on Tuesday in the House of Commons on the UK government’s response to allegations of “forced labor” in China’s Xinjiang region, The Telegraph reported on Monday.