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June 16, 2021 Women's Wear Daily

Short Takes: Chanel’s $25 Million Climate Fund, Fashion Ranked on Uyghur Abuses

This week in sustainability, Chanel invests in climate resilience and brands failing on forced labor. Chanel’s $25 Million Climate Fund: Chanel is anchoring a new climate change resilience fund that supports vulnerable…

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June 12, 2021 The New York Times

One Woman’s Journey Through Chinese Atrocities

In 2021 the United States and other countries have declared that China is committing genocide against ethnic Uyghurs — yet nothing much changes. That passivity discounts the horror of genocide, the…

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June 9, 2021 Financial Times

Uyghur rights groups pressure asset managers on Zara parent

The human rights crisis in Xinjiang has pitted Europe and the US against China — and clothing companies are caught in the middle. Now, asset managers are being pulled into…

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June 9, 2021 Global Policy Journal

G7 Summit Will Test Biden’s Moral Leadership on Uyghur Genocide

Bennett Freeman and Louisa Greve call on Biden to demonstrate to the world that the U.S. is prepared to be a leader on human rights again. As a candidate in 2020,…

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June 8, 2021 CECC

Xinjiang: Chairs Issue Statement about Forced Labor in Apple’s Supply Chain

(Washington)—Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Representative James P. McGovern (D-MA), the Chair and Cochair, respectively, of the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China, in a statement today urged Apple…

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June 6, 2021 YLE

Pakolla tehty

Kiinalainen liikemies Zeng Yifa lienee ylpeä menestyksestään. Hänen tehtaansa eri puolilla Kiinaa valmistavat vaatteita länsimaisille urheilu- ja muotibrändeille. Kiinankielisessä uutisjutussa (siirryt toiseen palveluun)Zeng poseeraa tehtaallaan vierellään talvitakkien rivi. Juttu kertoo tehtaasta, jonka Zeng on…

May 18, 2021

Coalition Statement on the Better Cotton Initiative

Since backlash in China in late March 2021, the Better Cotton Initiative (‘BCI’) has deleted all public statements and references to its decisions to exit the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region…

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May 16, 2021 The Guardian

Only an international effort can put an end to China’s crimes in Xinjiang

China’s president, Xi Jinping, declared back in 2014 in a series of speeches delivered in private to officials that he intended to crack down harshly in Xinjiang, the north-western region of…

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May 14, 2021

Press Release: Shocking New Report Exposes Solar Industry’s Reliance on Uyghur Forced Labour

95% of solar panels rely on polysilicon; 45% of the world’s polysilicon comes from Uyghur Region in China known for atrocious human rights violations The four largest solar panel suppliers…

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May 7, 2021 The Washington Post

Opinion: Corporations should think twice before sponsoring the ‘Genocide Olympics’

NOTWITHSTANDING THEIR ringing declarations on human rights, some of the world’s biggest corporations are silent and scampering for cover under scrutiny for their sponsorship of next year’s Olympic Winter Games…

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