Dear Dr Wollenstein,
Last week, in a BBC interview, you defended your company’s decision to continue operating a car plant in the Uighur region of China, where forced Uighur Muslim slave labor is rampant, and up to three million Uighurs are detained in concentration camps.
These human rights atrocities are part of what our letter from over 75 international faith leaders, and the Canadian Parliament, declare is a genocide or potential genocide that includes the forced sterilization of women and the removal of nearly a million children from their Uyghur families to Han Chinese boarding schools.
Although you stated in the interview that your best due diligence shows you use no forced labor, you were honest enough to accept you could never reach 100 percent certainty.
An ad released online on Nov. 28 by Nike Japan shows an ethnic Korean girl in a uniform with her family name of Kim added on the back. (A screenshot from the ad)
A recent advertisement by the Japanese arm of Nike Inc. has been lauded for sending an inspirational message about using sports to help overcome an identity crisis.
Others, however, have blasted the commercial as misrepresenting the realities of Japan and even attacking the country.
The commercial video, released online on Nov. 28, features three female students two of mixed heritage who face bullying and discrimination by their peers. They wonder if they should act or appear differently to fit in better.
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“Many people and much of the media have reported that the ICC has rejected the Uighurs’ ICC complaint,” Hudayar said. “However, that s not necessarily true.”
Hudayar says the complaint is still active. He and others just need to present evidence that China has also unlawfully arrested and detained Uighurs in Tajikistan and Cambodia, surrounding countries that do belong to the ICC.
They’re obtaining that evidence with the help of a powerful new group called the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, or IPAC.
Luke de Pulford, director of the anti-slavery nongovernmental organization, Arise Foundation, is acting as IPAC’s coordinator.
“I was actually quite hopeful when I saw the judgment because I thought, ‘OK, right. Well, if you re wanting more evidence of very severe crimes that have happened to Uighurs outside of China, then great. Well, we ve got that. Let s work on that. Pull that together.’”