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June 20, 2025 Bureau of Investigative Journalism

How Big Brands and Foreign Money Prop Up Chinese Forced Labour

From pension funds to global businesses, investors and consumers are handing over cash to companies using Xinjiang workers

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June 11, 2025 ABC News

Rights Group Says Global Brands Are at Risk of Links to Forced Labor in China’s Minerals industry

LONDON — Several global brands are among dozens of companies at risk of using forced labor through their Chinese supply chains because they use critical minerals or buy minerals-based products sourced from China’s…

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May 31, 2025 The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Did Coerced Labour Build Your Car?

Nothing epitomises Chinese dominance over global industry more than its car sector. Outside Wuhan – yes, that Wuhan – in Hubei, central China, a 500 km2 industrial zone christened ‘Car Valley’ can…

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May 30, 2025 The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

The World Sanctioned Xinjiang Cotton. China Turned it into Chicken Feed

“It’ll be fine. As long as we have two hands and a big bag. We’ll get this cotton picked in no time. But in the evening, when we get home,…

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May 29, 2025 Der Spiegel

So verpflichtet China Uiguren als Billigarbeiter in der Industrie

Chinesische Behörden verschicken Uiguren zum Arbeitseinsatz. Wehren können sie sich dagegen kaum. Auch deutsche Konzerne profitieren offenbar davon.

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May 29, 2025 Bureau of Investigative Journalism

China’s Economy Runs on Uyghur Forced Labour

More than 100 global brands are linked to a scheme that ships Xinjiang ethnic minorities to work in factories thousands of miles away.

May 29, 2025 The New York Times

Far From Home: Uyghur Workers in Factories Supplying Global Brands

China’s mass detention and surveillance of ethnic Uyghurs turned its far western region of Xinjiang into a global symbol of forced labor and human rights abuses, prompting Congress to ban…

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May 29, 2025 New York Times

How China Uses Work to Reshape Uyghur Identity and Control a Strategic Region

State labor programs were aimed at lifting one of the nation’s poorest regions out of poverty, but they have also served as a tool to erode resistance to Chinese rule.

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May 29, 2025 New York Times

How Uyghurs in China are Coerced to Work in Factories

The Chinese government is finding a way around the U.S. ban on imports from Xinjiang — by moving Uyghurs to jobs in factories outside the region.

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May 2, 2025 Sourcing Journal

Research Draws ‘Probable’ Links Between Shein and Xinjiang Textile Production

A Uyghur rights group that is vehemently opposed to a potential Shein listing on the London Stock Exchange says it has uncovered “probable” links between the Chinese-founded e-tail juggernaut and a Guangdong-based…

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