Last week, the Uyghur American Association showcased Uyghur fashion and culture at the Uyghur Center in Fairfax, Virginia, while calling out to end Uyghur forced labor in the fashion industry.
Uyghur Forced labor & human trafficking
Uyghur Forced labor & human trafficking
A report by the Uyghur Human Rights Project by Nuzigum Setiwaldi. Read our press statement on the report here, and download the full report here.
The United Nations has released a report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, mentioning the Chinese government’s crimes against Uyghurs and other Turkic people.
Campaigners have accused Vietnam of laundering cotton from ‘Xinjiang’ to help China bypass the fresh Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, EcoTextile reports on its website. Eventually, the Vietnamese manufacturers sell the items to the US market without disclosing the source.
WASHINGTON – Uyghur demonstrators last week installed a mock forced labor camp outside the Apple store in Washington DC, hours ahead of the company’s annual shareholder meeting, Uyghur American Association tweets.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), one of the leading global development banks, has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to companies in the Chinese occupied Uyghursistan (that China refers to as Xinjiang), reveals a new report released by Atlantic Council, Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice and NomoGaia.
In a recent interview on BFM-TV French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann (Place Publique) said, that France must ban products linked to Uyghur forced labor. Several multinational companies in the French market use Chinese subcontractors with links to Chinese concentration camps and coerced labor. The system uses slaves, not employees, Glucksmann continues.
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), with five other Republican senators, has sent a letter to the Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) Dev Jagadesan. They have inquired whether the (DFC) is inadvertently aiding the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) export of solar panels tainted with the forced labor of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
Just as the world is coming to grips with the Xinjiang cotton war, there is another conflict looming on the horizon: the Xinjiang tomato war!
Sept 22, 2020 By Uyghur Human Rights Project The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) extends its deep gratitude to the U.S. House of Representatives for passing the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. The bill is the first national legislation anywhere in the world enforcing human-rights standards to end the import […]