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March 2, 2021

An Open Letter to the Fashion and Home-Furnishing Industries

Time is up. We, the Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region, call on all companies to urgently end all links to Uyghur forced labour. The government of…

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February 25, 2021

Statement: US House Bill Would Effectively Block Import of Goods Produced with Uyghur Forced Labour

In the Uyghur Region of Western China (referred to by China as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region), the government of China continues to press ahead with its systematic program to…

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February 22, 2021 The Washington Post

U.S. ban on China’s Xinjiang cotton fractures fashion industry supply chains

Last month, Chinese cotton yarn maker Huafu Fashion sent a warning to investors. “Multiple American brands have canceled orders,” Huafu said in a Shenzhen stock exchange filing, citing U.S. sanctions.…

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February 3, 2021

Statement: Coalition Calls on IOC to Announce Human Rights Due Diligence Plan ahead of Beijing 2022 Olympics

The Coalition to End Uyghur Forced Labour joins the call for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to articulate its human rights due diligence plan this month, in accordance with the…

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January 25, 2021 The Telegraph

Fashion giants finally cotton on to plight of the Uighurs

A search for “uighur” or “uighur cotton” – for the two are inextricably linked – on Google Trends shows that until last year the terms barely appeared in people’s internet…

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January 25, 2021 The Washington Post

China seized my sister. Biden must fight for her and all enslaved Uighurs.

Rushan Abbas is the founder and executive director of Campaign for Uyghurs. On Sept. 11, 2018, the Chinese regime took away my sister, Gulshan Abbas. On Christmas Day in 2020, more…

January 23, 2021 The Spectator

What the West can do about China’s Uyghur labour camps

Coca-Cola’s most controversial bottling plant is a huge factory located in an industrial zone just outside the city of Urumqi in western China. Logistically, the factory is well situated: the…

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January 13, 2021 QUARTZ

The US is intensifying its crackdown on forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region

The US government today issued a sweeping ban on imports containing any cotton or tomato products originating in China’s Xinjiang region, where at least 1 million members of the country’s Uyghur ethnic…

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January 13, 2021 ABC news

US bans all cotton and tomato products from Xinjiang over slave labor

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Wednesday it will detain all cotton and tomato products produced in China’s Xinjiang province. The Withhold Release Order (WRO) issued by CBP is based on…

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January 13, 2021 The Wall Street Journal

U.S. Bans Cotton, Tomato Imports From China’s Xinjiang Region

The Trump administration on Wednesday banned imports of cotton and tomato products from Xinjiang, the broadest U.S. ban yet to target allegations of forced-labor practices in the northwest Chinese region.

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