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May 25, 2021 Share A backlash against reports of forced labor and other abuses of the largely Muslim Uyghur ethnic group in Xinjiang is taking a toll on China’s cotton industry, but it’s unclear if the pressure will compel the government or companies to change their ways. Li Qiang, general manager of the Huafu Fashion yarn factory in Xinjiang, told reporters that even though the company lost money in 2020 for the first time in its 27-year history, it bounced back by shifting to dome...

Published Tuesday, May 25, 2021 5:52AM EDT AKSU, China (AP) -- A backlash against reports of forced labor and other abuses of the largely Muslim Uyghur ethnic group in Xinjiang is taking a toll on Chinas cotton industry, but its unclear if the pressure will compel the government or companies to change their ways. Li Qiang, general manager of the Huafu Fashion yarn factory in Xinjiang, told reporters that even though the company lost money in 2020 for the first time in its 27-ye...

UConn Wins Global Recognition for Ethical Supply Chain Efforts UConn has established itself as one of the premier institutions in the country in the area of human rights and ethical sourcing UConn has maintained its commitment to ethical supply chain management even in the difficult atmosphere of the pandemic. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo) Copy Link UConn is receiving global attention for its commitment to ethical supply chain management, licensing, and branding as the winner ...

The suit accuses Spain-based Inditex (whose brands include Zara, Bershka, Massimo Dutti, Oysho, Pull and Bear and Stradivarius), France-based SMCP (comprised of Parisian brands, Sandro, Maje, Claudie Pierlot and De Fursac), U.S.-based footwear company Skechers, and the U.S. subsidiary of the Japanese fashion retailer Uniqlo, of being "accomplices in serious crimes," including "concealment of the crime of forced labor, the crime of organized human trafficking, the crime of genocide and crimes ag...

Global brands find it hard to untangle themselves from Xinjiang cotton 2 published : 6 Apr 2021 at 10:31 2 Workers are seen on the production line at a cotton textile factory in Korla, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China April 1, 2021. (Reuters photo) Faced with accusations that it was profiting from the forced labour of Uyghur people in the Chinese territory of Xinjiang, the H&M Group — the world’s second-largest clothing retailer ...

Alta Gracia, a US-owned garment factory produces sportswear for 600 US colleges with the ‘living wage’ and values of ‘dignity and respect’ at its core. Photograph: Milli Legrain When Alta Gracia launched in 2010 it was hailed as an experiment to show the world that garment factory workers in the developing world could aspire to a living wage and that their labor rights could be respected. But in order to survive the company, which sell...

US Firms Are Profiting From Uyghur Forced Labor: Expert A parade of witnesses told the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on March 10 that it’s all but impossible for U.S. firms to buy goods or services from China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region that aren’t produced with forced labor. That’s because Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities have imposed such a pervasive system of repressive political, economic, social, and religious policies on the mostly Mu...

Suppliers in Asia report U.S. brands asking them to ditch cotton from the northwestern region, accounting for about one-fifth of global supply.

How to ensure your clothes havent 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. ...

Customs and Border Protection just picked a fight with the Chinese Communist Party America should ramp up this powerful weapon against modern-day slavery The federal government has a powerful tool at its disposal in the fight against human trafficking and forced labor. It’s one that should be used more. It’s called a Withhold Release Order (WRO), and it allows U.S. Customs and Border Protection to halt the import of goods made by slaves. The government has had this power since 1930, but ha...