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Alta Gracia, a US-owned garment factory produces sportswear for 600 US colleges with the ‘living wage’ and values of ‘dignity and respect’ at its core. Photograph: Milli Legrain When Alta Gracia launched in 2010 it was hailed as an experiment to show the world that garment factory workers in the developing world could aspire to a living wage and that their labor rights could be respected. But in order to survive the company, which sells T-shirts and sweatshirts made in the Dominican Republic to US college students, also needs to make...

US Firms Are Profiting From Uyghur Forced Labor: Expert A parade of witnesses told the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on March 10 that it’s all but impossible for U.S. firms to buy goods or services from China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region that aren’t produced with forced labor. That’s because Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities have imposed such a pervasive system of repressive political, economic, social, and religious policies on the mostly Muslim population in the region of northwest China. “It is a practical impossibility for a U.S. corp...

Suppliers in Asia report U.S. brands asking them to ditch cotton from the northwestern region, accounting for about one-fifth of global supply.

How to ensure your clothes haven't been made using Uighur labour  Marks & Spencer has pledged to stop buying cotton from the devastated region - but will other brands join them? 18 February 2021 • 6:00am A protest in Turkey against Chinese oppression of the Uighur community Credit: AP Earlier this month, an astounding BBC report was released, detailing the ways in which Uighur women have been systematically raped, sexually abused, and tortured in detention camps in Xinjiang, western China.  Or perhaps it wasn’t as astounding as all that. Horrific as the details are, we have known about...

Customs and Border Protection just picked a fight with the Chinese Communist Party America should ramp up this powerful weapon against modern-day slavery The federal government has a powerful tool at its disposal in the fight against human trafficking and forced labor. It’s one that should be used more. It’s called a Withhold Release Order (WRO), and it allows U.S. Customs and Border Protection to halt the import of goods made by slaves. The government has had this power since 1930, but has only recently ramped up its use. In 2016, Congress closed a loophole in the law, and in the years ...