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Auditors to Stop Inspecting Factories in China’s Xinjiang Despite Forced-Labor Concerns

At least five organizations say they won’t help companies audit their supply chains in China’s Xinjiang region, where human-rights activists say a police-state atmosphere and government controls make it too …

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Talleres virtuales: “Relaciones entre la Unión Europea y América Latina” para analizar el impacto de los TLC

El martes 22 de septiembre inician una serie de mesas redondas virtuales para analizar los posibles efectos sociales, medioambientales y políticos de los Tratados de Libre Comercio suscritos o en …

China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet

China is pushing growing numbers of Tibetan rural laborers off the land and into recently built military-style training centers where they are turned into factory workers, mirroring a program in …

New law to protect Thai fishermen seen boosting child labour

Teenagers could work as unpaid interns on Thai fishing vessels in a proposed change to the law that activists fear will encourage child labour. An amendment to a ministerial regulation …

UK Parliament Launches Enquiry Into Xinjiang Internment Camps, Questions British Business Ties

Britain’s parliament on Wednesday opened an investigation into British business connections with China’s internment camps and use of forced labor in its Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, vowing to find ways …

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H&M cuts ties with Chinese supplier over Xinjiang forced labour accusations

The company also said it had conducted “an inquiry at all the garment manufacturing factories we work with in China aiming to ensure that they are not employing workers … …

Brazil court rules in favor of anti-slavery ‘dirty list’

Brazil’s so-called dirty list, one of the nation’s most powerful weapons against slave labor, is legal and can proceed, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday. With the ruling, the list …

U.S. Restricts Chinese Apparel and Tech Products, Citing Forced Labor

The Trump administration on Monday announced new restrictions on imports of apparel, hair products and technology goods from certain Chinese companies, saying those entities had used forced labor in the …

U.S. readies bans on cotton, tomato imports from China’s Xinjiang

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have prepared orders to block imports of cotton and tomato products from China’s western region of Xinjiang over accusations of forced labor, though a …

US Bureau Report International Labor Affairs on international child labor and forced labor

This report is the US Department of Labor’s Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor; the List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor; and the List …

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