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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.

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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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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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December 8, 2025 Washington Examiner

The Hidden Cost of Holiday Gifts: How Forced Labor Ends Up On Our Shelves

The uncomfortable truth is that forced labor is so deeply embedded in global supply chains that many of us are encountering it with alarming frequency.

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December 1, 2025 Global Rights Compliance

Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region: NGOs at UNBHR Call for Coordinated Global Response

GENEVA – Leading legal experts and advocates at this week’s United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva took actions to call for greater attention on state-imposed forced labour (SIFL) in the Uyghur Region – after this year’s Forum again failed to formally include the issue on its agenda.

November 24, 2025 Uyghur Human Rights Project

From Ürümchi to Paris and Brussels: The Spread of Uyghur Region Air Cargo Across Europe

The current analysis, drawing on updated cargo flight data through October 2025, reinforces this finding and reveals a continued rise in cargo flights from a growing list of airlines landing in the UK and European Union, creating a direct trade corridor from a region where the Chinese government is perpetrating genocide and atrocity crimes, including the systematic exploitation of Uyghurs through state-imposed labor schemes.

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November 23, 2025 SBS News

‘You don’t have the freedom to leave’: The human cost of Australia’s solar boom

As Australia's uptake of solar panels booms, human rights groups have raised alarm about links to Uyghur forced labour in the supply chain.

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October 31, 2025 ChinaFile

Renewable Energy Still Comes at the Cost of Forced Labor. It Needs to Be Stopped.

Solar power is critical for reducing emissions and mitigating the climate crisis. But it’s important to understand the darker side of the industry in China: widespread human rights violations, including forced labor. The transition to renewable energy is essential, but the urgency of the climate crisis is not an excuse to ignore forced labor and gross human rights abuses.

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October 29, 2025 Sourcing Journal

Do the Labor Provisions in Trump’s Southeast Asian Trade Deals Have a Point?

Murphy, who previously advised the Department of Homeland Security on forced labor issues, was referring to the trade agreements that the United States inked with Cambodia and Malaysia, and, to a lesser extent, the frameworks of deals with Thailand and Vietnam. Buried within them, she noted, were easily missable provisions that could have far-reaching consequences for labor rights around the world.

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