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Batches of 50 to 100 Uighur workers are being advertised on the Chinese internet
Uighur people from Xinjiang working in other parts of China are subject to political checks and work under strict half-military style management, according to new evidence discovered by Sky News.
The Xinjiang government runs an official labour transfer programme , according to its 2019 Five Year Plan, so as to provide more employment opportunities for the surplus rural labour force .
Workers are transferred to employment in other provinces of
Drug Overdoses Kill More Than Five Australians a Day: Report
More than five Australians died from drugs overdoses every day in 2019, says a new report by the National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC).
According to the annual report released on Thursday, over 1,860 Australians lost their lives to drugs in 2019, with the majority of the deaths deemed unintentional.
This marks Australia’s fifth year in a row where the country’s number of drug-induced deaths is higher than the earlier peak observed in the late 1990s.
The report also found that cocaine-induced deaths have more than doubled since 2016, while the number of deaths owing to amphetamine is four times higher than a decade ago.
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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 against humanity.
The plaintiffs are asking the French judiciary to rule on the possible criminal liability of the companies. The stated aim is to end impunity for the brands, which are accused of offloading on their subcontractors their responsibility for human rights.