For the first time since laws prohibiting the import of products believed to have been manufactured by slave labour were established in 2020, a shipment of goods from China has been seized by Canada. The ban was put in place by the trilateral USMCA trade deal signed by Canada in 2018, although the prohibition did…
Rights Group Files Complaint About German Retailers Over Chinese Textiles
September 7, 2021
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BERLIN—A human rights group filed a complaint to German prosecutors on Monday alleging that several fashion retailers profited from the forced labor system in China’s Xinjiang region. The Berlin-based European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) accuses Lidl, Hugo Boss, and other retailers of abetting and profiting, directly or indirectly, from forced labor in…
Australian State Turns ‘Blind Eye’ to Uyghur Forced Labour in Supply Chain
Victoria’s Shadow Public Transport Minister David Davis has accused the state government of being “naive” and turning a “blind eye” to forced labour practices in China after the state’s Department of Transport went ahead with the purchase of train parts allegedly linked to the “morally reprehensible” practice. This comes after documents obtained by The Age…
Australian Senate Uyghur Inquiry Crosses China’s ‘Red Line’
An Australian government inquiry into the use of Uyghur forced labour in China has been told the government’s investigation into the slave labour is crossing “a red line” for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In a submission to the Senate inquiry, analyst Vicky Xu, who was lead author on the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s 2020 report “Uyghurs…
Norway Wealth Fund to Probe Whether Firms Could Be Using Forced Labour From China’s Xinjiang
March 12, 2021
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OSLO—Norway’s $1.3 trillion wealth fund will probe whether companies it is invested in may be using the labor of ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslims linked to China’s internment camps in farwestern Xinjiang, the head of the fund’s ethics watchdog said. The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, which has massive market influence because it owns 1.5…
Chinese Embassy Tried to Silence Me, UK Rights Activist Benedict Rogers Reveals
January 14, 2021
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The Chinese Embassy in Britain made repeated attempts to pressure a prominent human rights advocate to stop criticising the Communist regime, it has been revealed. Benedict Rogers, co-founder and deputy chair of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission, told The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders” program about his own “very small experience” of the Chinese…
UK Introduces Measures to Prevent Complicity in Uyghur Abuse
January 12, 2021
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Britain on Tuesday introduced measures to prevent British organisations from being complicit in the Chinese regime’s human rights violations against Uyghurs. “The evidence of the scale and severity of the human rights violations being perpetrated in Xinjiang against the Uyghur Muslims is now far reaching,” UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said in a statement. “Today…
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