News Coverage

May 7, 2026 The Bureau

Uyghur Forced Labor Imports From China To Canada Must Be Blocked

Op-Ed: Canada’s recent agreement to import 49,000 Chinese-made Electrical Vehicles into the country supports gross human rights violations.

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April 23, 2026 New York Times

Some Labubu Dolls Contain Cotton Banned By Forced Labor Law, Testing Shows

For businesses like Pop Mart, selling products that contain cotton banned in the United States could have severe consequences.

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April 16, 2026 Sourcing Journal

Op-Ed: Whistleblower Testimony Confirms Systematic Forced Labor in Xinjiang

New firsthand testimony from a former regional police officer directly contradicts this narrative, providing overwhelming evidence to substantiate long-standing allegations of state-imposed forced labor.

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April 16, 2026 Foreign Policy

Xinjiang’s Repression of Uyghurs Has Evolved, Not Ended

A rare insider testimony reveals how China tries to hide state violence in Xinjiang.

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April 11, 2026 The Hill

China’s Energy Dominance Plan is Built on the Backs of Forced Labor

As Beijing unveiled its 15th Five-Year Plan this March, headlines focused on the Chinese government’s ambitions to dominate semiconductors, clean energy and artificial intelligence. Yet too little attention is being paid to the dark infrastructure underlying those ambitions.

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April 2, 2026 The Globe and Mail

Canada Urged to Adopt U.S. Approach to Goods Made with Forced Labour from China’s Xinjiang

Human-rights advocates are asking Prime Minister Mark Carney to toughen Canada’s system for blocking imports of goods made with forced labour, calling on the government to adopt a legal presumption that would treat all products from China’s Xinjiang region as tainted by forced labour unless importers can prove otherwise.

April 1, 2026 Human Rights Watch

Canada Should Speak Out on Uyghur Forced Labor in China

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s unwillingness to condemn forced labor in China risks reducing pressure on the Chinese government to end its repression of ethnic Uyghurs.

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March 27, 2026 The Wire China

Canada’s Xinjiang Controversy

Doubts about Canada’s approach to countering forced labor in Xinjiang are rising after a controversy that erupted this week when a prominent lawmaker in the governing Liberal Party appeared to question the existence of such abuses.

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March 16, 2026 The Times

UK Funded Carbon Capture in Xinjiang During Uighur ‘Genocide’

Between 2016 and 2018, on at least four occasions, the Foreign Office used Britain’s aid budget to help the Xinjiang regional government develop devices to capture planet-warming carbon emissions from smokestacks of power stations and factories.

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March 15, 2026 The Wire China

Has Trump Shelved The Uyghur Forced Labor Law?

The United States has apparently eased its efforts to block imports of goods made using the forced labor of China’s Uyghur population.

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