Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Acting Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli recently stated that “DHS will not tolerate forced labor of any kind in U.S. supply chains. We will continue to protect the American people and investigate credible allegations of forced labor, we will prevent goods made by forced labor from entering our country.”
Beginning Jan. 13, 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will detain all tomato and cotton products from China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). CBP identified the following forced labor indicators: debt bondage, restriction of movement, isolation, intimidation and threats, withholding of wages, and abusive living and working conditions. CBP has significantly increased enforcement of the import prohibition on goods made from forced labor, including issuing withhold release orders (WROs) on the importation of specific products. In 2020 CBP issued 13 WROs, which are promulgated when CBP has
Page d accueil | News & Events | U.S. Department of Labor Awards $4.5 Million in Grants to Reduce Child Labor in Mica-Producing Communities in Madagascar
WASHINGTON, DC – To help reduce child labor in Madagascar, one of the leading suppliers of mica where estimates of 10,000 children work in the mines, the U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of a $4.5 million cooperative agreement to the United Nations Development Programme.
The award will support implementation of a project to bolster the resiliency of vulnerable families in micaproducing communities, build the capacity of government officials to address child labor in the mica supply chain and increase engagement of non-governmental stakeholders to combat the practice. The project aims to provide direct educational services to 3,380 children and livelihood services to 1,575 families.
Can the U.S. End Supply Chain Links to Forced Uighur Labor?
A Chinese cargo ship. (Kees Torn, https://tinyurl.com/iiwcrl7a; CC BY-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en)
Recent reporting on the human rights crisis in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region has revealed the United States to be a major consumer in the global marketplace for forced Uighur labor. It is a near certainty that some goods currently being sold in the United States though it is difficult to say which ones were made, wholly or in part, by Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in furtherance of their forced “reeducation” in China.
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Hidden slavery behind your weekly shop with kids as young as 6 sold for £210 & fishermen murdered by crews
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WITH an aching back, and hunger pangs ripping through his stomach, 15-year-old Abou Traore uses a heavy machete to hack through the dense brush of a cocoa plantation.
The teenager, who has been working long hours on the farm since the age of ten, is one of 16,000 children forced into child labour in West Africa - so that Brits can enjoy their favourite chocolate bars.
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A nine-year-old child pictured by Unicef working with a machete on a cocoa farmCredit: Mirrorpix
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