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March 9, 2026 Global Rights Compliance

The EU’s Forced Labour Regulation (EUFLR) Will Only Be as Strong as Its Guidance

The EU Forced Labour Regulation (EUFLR) has the potential to play an unprecedented role in combating, if not eliminating, forced labour products entering or exiting European markets. However, its effectiveness will hinge on how it is operationalised.

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February 27, 2026 Human Rights Watch

Japan Should Adopt Regulation to Counter Uyghur Forced Labor

Human Rights Watch recommended that Japan should target any global region with a high risk of state-imposed forced labor. The law should also require companies seeking to import at-risk products to demonstrate that a product was not produced through forced labor.

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February 23, 2026 Human Rights Watch

Letter to the Chairperson of the Japan Uyghur Parliamentary Association, Keiji Furuya

We are writing in support of your reported plans, as chairperson of the Japan Uyghur Parliamentary Association, to draft a Japanese version of the United States Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA).

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February 18, 2026 Law Gazette

The UK Was Once an Anti-Slavery Champion – Today We’re Falling Behind

While the use of forced labour continues to infiltrate the supply chains of textiles, electronics, and many more, efforts by the UK to prevent contaminated products from reaching consumers is falling behind other nations.

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February 17, 2026

Anti-Slavery Commissioner Calls for Tougher Laws Amid Forced Labour Concerns for Ansell and Kmart

Australia's anti-slavery commissioner has called for tough new laws forcing Australian companies to take slavery in their supply chains seriously.

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February 6, 2026 Open Global Rights

How a Casual Online Booking Can Link You to Repression in the Uyghur Region

The connections also extend to complicity in state-imposed forced labor. An Accor hotel in Ürümchi recruited and trained workers through state-run “labor transfer” schemes that experts identify as mechanisms of forced labor...Yet Booking.com and Expedia continue to list the hotel in question as if it were just another property, concealing the coercion built into its operations.

February 5, 2026 EcoTextile News

Xinjiang Cotton Express Rrain Raises Due Diligence Fears

New train service, slashing the time to ship cotton from China’s Xinjiang region to eastern textile hubs, raises forced labour concerns for brands.

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February 2, 2026 Newsweek

Confronting China’s Forced Labor Is Key to Securing America’s Mineral Future | Opinion

Looking ahead, China’s forthcoming 15th Five-Year Plan signals an even greater expansion of critical mineral extraction and processing in XUAR—which can only be accomplished through continued brutal repression of Uyghur communities forced to mine and process these materials.

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January 22, 2026 UN OHCHR

UN Experts Alarmed by Reports of Forced Labour of Uyghur, Tibetan and Other Minorities Across China

UN experts* today expressed deep concern regarding persistent allegations of forced labour affecting Uyghur, Kazakh and Kyrgyz minority groups as well as Tibetans within the Uyghur Region and across other parts of China.

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December 9, 2025 RTE

Widely Used Solar Brands Tied to Forced Labour in China

Solar panels used widely across Ireland, including in large solar farms, at airports, and on government buildings, were sourced from companies linked to forced labour and environmental devastation in the Xinjiang region of China, RTÉ Investigates has found.

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