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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.

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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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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 industrial park with potential connections to textile production in the [Uyghur Region], where forced labor is part of the broader persecution of Muslim minorities.

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April 15, 2025 Sourcing Journal

Is the US Still in the Fight Against Uyghur Forced Labor?

On Friday, the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee greenlit the latest in a flurry of legislative activity to protect ethnic minorities caught in China’s brutal crackdown on Muslim populations, including what several authorities say are crimes against humanity that amount to genocide, though Beijing itself denies this.

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March 11, 2025 ABC News

Electric Bus Deals Under Review by NSW Anti-Slavery Commissioner

New South Wales Anti-slavery Commissioner James Cockayne is reviewing the state government's procurement of hundreds of electric buses amid concerns that parts of the vehicles were manufactured using slave labour.

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February 6, 2025 Disclose

Decathlon Profits from Uyghur Forced Labour in China

A 12-year-old girl, workers from the Uyghur minority forced to make clothes, etc.: one of Decathlon’s main suppliers relies on a network of forced labour in China, as revealed by Disclose in partnership with Cash Investigation. The French brand’s clothing also contains cotton from the Xinjiang region which is under international sanctions.

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January 31, 2025 Politico

UK Urged to Probe Spate of Chinese Flights for Forced Labor

LONDON — A flurry of new cargo flights from China’s Xinjiang province to Britain may be trafficking goods made with forced labor, the U.K. government is being warned.

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