EU lawmakers voted on Tuesday to ban products made using forced labour which supporters hope will be used to block goods from China, at the risk of raising tensions with Beijing.The law does not directly mention China, but many lawmakers hope it will be used to block imports from China involving the region where the Uyghur Muslim minority lives.
Volkswagen is drawing up plans to pull out of China’s troubled Xinjiang region after the German car maker was accused of benefiting from human rights abuses there.
A group of 85 HIV-positive women represented by the Her Rights Initiative (HRI) has written an open letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa, calling on him to start the process of compensation from government after they were forcefully sterilised by clinicians.