Tag: Forced labor

Bündel roher Baumwolle (Gossypium arboreum), Südindien

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
April 12, 2021

Categorized
Business and Finance, Censorship, Ethics

Tagged
Better Cotton Initiative, China, Chinese Youth League, Cotton, Ethical Trading Initiative, Forced labor, Garment industry, H&M, Uyghurs, Xinjiang}

Clothing Retailer H&M Canceled for Revealing China’s Forced Labor

_{About a fifth of the world’s cotton is grown in Xinjiang, for which Uyghur labor is conscripted, partly through the detention camps complex} _{Heather Zeiger

April 12, 2021

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Business and Finance, Censorship, Ethics}

Recently, I wrote about the fact that many fashionable products consumed in the West are produced by forced Uyghur labor. Those who speak out pay a steep price, as Swedish clothing retailer H&M can attest. Two weeks ago, H&M was Canceled in China after the Communist Youth League decried the company’s comments on forced labor in Xinjiang on Weibo, China’s biggest social media platform. The comments themselves dated from last year (March 2020). The online vitriol is likely in response to sanctions recently imposed by the European Union, the U.S., the U.K., and Canada on Chinese officials for human rights abuses. Earlier in March (2021), Newslines Institute for Strategy and Policy, an international independent organization, published a report showing that Read More ›

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
March 11, 2021

Categorized
Business and Finance, Economics, Ethics, Global Technology

Tagged
Alison Killin, Amelia Pang, bitcoin, China, Cotton, cryptocurrencies, Falun Gong, Falun Gong (persecution), Fashion industry, Featured, Forced labor, Forced labor (opposition), Made in China (book), Megha Rajagopalan, Newlines Institute, Norwegian Wealth Fund, Olivia Enos, Solar panels industry, UN Genocide Convention (1948), Uyghurs, Xinjiang}

In China, Forced Uyghur Labor Produces Many Fashionable Products

_{Industries such as fashion and solar panels rely heavily on supplies from detention centers and concentration camps in China} _{Heather Zeiger

March 11, 2021

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Business and Finance, Economics, Ethics, Global Technology}

China has been called the “world’s factory.” American companies like Apple, may assemble their tech in the U.S., but the parts are made elsewhere, including Xinjiang, China (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region). Industries such as fashion and solar panels also rely heavily on Xinjiang for their supply lines. Reports from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) and the Center for Strategic and International Studies in the U.S., as well as testimonials from Uyghurs, show that many such factories in Xinjiang involve the forced labor of Uyghurs in what are called “vocational training schools.” These vocational training schools are more appropriately described as detention centers. In many cases, they are essentially concentration camps. Many Uyghurs are also sent from Xinjiang to other Read More ›