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The 99-page report, “Asleep at the Wheel: Car Companies’ Complicity in Forced Labor in China,” finds that some carmakers have succumbed to Chinese government pressure to apply weaker human rights and responsible sourcing standards at their Chinese joint ventures than in their global operations, increasing the risk of exposure to forced labor in Xinjiang. Most have done too little to map their aluminum supply chains and identify links to forced labor.
The Chinese government’s revised regulations in the Xinjiang region tighten controls over the religious practices of the predominantly Muslim ethnic Uyghurs.
China’s white paper gives an opportunity to analyse how Beijing countered extremism in its most sensitive Xinjiang province
This opinion piece was co-authored by Maya Wang, acting China Director at Human Rights Watch, and Yves Moreau, professor of bioinformatics at the University of Leuven, Belgium. The U.S. biomedical company Thermo Fisher Scientific announced on Jan. 5 that it will no longer sell human DNA identification technology to the Chinese police in the Tibet Autonomous Region. In 2019, it had made a similar decision to halt the sale of these products in Xinjiang, the northwestern region where the Chinese
Whatever kind of AI is out there today is what teenagers and young college students are going to inherit tomorrow. Which is why 900 of them came together in "Encode Justice."