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New forced Uyghur labour revelations hit Apple, Tesla, Amazon
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New forced Uyghur labour revelations hit Apple, Tesla, Amazon Submitted by martin on 20 May, 2021 - 11:34
Author: Ben Tausz
Seven more companies in corporate tech giants’ supply chains have been linked to the Chinese state’s forced labour schemes conscripting Uyghurs.
Solidarity has reported on previous revelations about these schemes. This month, an investigation by tech journalists and human rights groups identified yet more businesses that received thousands of workers, manufacturing and assembling components for dozens of international brands. These include Apple, Amazon, IBM, Dell, Samsung, and Elon Musk’s Tesla.
Beijing claims that these are voluntary “poverty alleviation” programmes for the Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other majority-Muslim indigenous peoples of Xinjiang province (the Chinese state’s name for colonised East Turkestan). However, those who decline to participate can be label
Woke Apple continues to use Chinese slave labor, report shows Follow Us
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Apple, one of the “woke” corporations that has endorsed the Black Lives Matter movement and critical race theory, continues to use slave labor in China to make its products, a new report shows.
Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has categorically denied the technology firm sources from Chinese companies that use Uyghur slave labor in its production lines. Last year, he was asked directly by Congress if he could “certify here today that your company does not use, and will never use, slave labor to manufacture your products?”
Apple travaillerait avec des fournisseurs liés à des programmes de travail forcé des Ouïghours, d autres entreprises américaines de la Tech feraient également appel à ces fournisseurs
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Apple suppliers linked to Uyghur forced labor in new report
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Several Apple suppliers may have used forced labor in China, according to
The Information. Working with two human rights groups, the publication identified seven companies that supplied products or services to Apple and supported forced labor programs, according to statements made by the Chinese government. The programs target the country’s Muslim minority population, particularly Uyghurs living in Xinjiang.
Six of the seven suppliers were said to participate in work programs operated by the Chinese government,
The Information reports, which human rights groups describe as frequently offering cover for forced labor. Workers can be jailed for refusing to join the work programs, the report says, and those enrolled in the programs are often moved far from their homes.
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