Push for law to stop products from forced labour being sold in NZ
Deleted. “I want the New Zealand Government to care.” It is estimated that up to 2 million Uyghurs have been detained in prisons and detention centres as part of a brutal crackdown on the ethnic minority in Xinjiang province. Hundreds of thousands more have been made to work in state labour schemes within the region or have been transported to factories across China. Modern slavery legislation would bring New Zealand in line with countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia, although those countries have gone further by drafting laws to specifically stop the importation of goods...