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January 6, 2021 Independent

Marks & Spencer praised for backing call to action over Uighur forced labour

Marks & Spencer has been praised for becoming the “first top-tier global UK clothing company” to formally announce that it will not work with suppliers connected to the forced labour…

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January 6, 2021 Reuters

Britain’s M&S backs call to stop forced labour in China’s Xinjiang

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – British retailer Marks & Spencer on Wednesday became one of the first major brands to back a drive to stop forced labour in cotton and…

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January 6, 2021

Statement: End Uyghur Forced Labour Coalition Welcomes Public Commitments by Marks & Spencer on Uyghur Forced Labour

London, UK – Today the major British multinational retailer, Marks & Spencer, publicly announced its formal commitment to cut all ties with suppliers implicated in Uyghur forced labour and to ban…

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December 21, 2020 Le Monde

Le géant du vêtement Inditex refuse de signer les appels des ONG contre le travail forcé des Ouïgours

Inditex est dans l’embarras. Le groupe espagnol d’habillement peine à répondre publiquement à l’appel international de la coalition mondiale contre le travail forcé des Ouïgours lancé le 23 juillet. Quatre mois…

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December 15, 2020

Press Release: End Uyghur Forced Labor Coalition Demands Companies Disclose Corporate Lobbying Against the Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act

Coalition urges US Senate to pass the bill + welcomes CBP’s XPCC Cotton Ban— 6% of world’s cotton supply Washington, DC— Today, the Coalition to End Forced Labour in the…

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December 14, 2020 BBC

China’s ‘tainted’ cotton

China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the vast cotton fields of its western region of Xinjiang, according to new research…

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December 11, 2020 Le Devoir

L’industrie du textile écorchée par le scandale ouïghour

Depuis plusieurs mois, l’industrie du textile est visée par des allégations de « travail forcé » impliquant la main-d’œuvre ouïghoure, en Chine. Pendant que les États-Unis prennent des mesures pour…

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December 10, 2020 OTTAWA CITZEN

Tohti and Burton: Canada must respond to China’s harrowing genocide

As the world somberly marked UN Genocide Commemoration Day this week, Canadians still await their own government’s action after a parliamentary panel found that China’s persecution of Uyghurs is now…

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December 6, 2020 Business Insider

Human rights groups say the Xinjiang forced labor bill will likely be passed as huge companies like Nike and Coca-Cola lobby against it

Human rights groups said Tuesday that the bill that would ban imported goods made with forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region will most likely be passed by the Senate.

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December 3, 2020 EcoTextile News

Forced labour: US bans XPCC cotton imports

WASHINGTON DC – The US has banned cotton imports from the powerful Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) over concerns about the use of forced labour by Uyghur Muslim prisoners…

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