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December 5, 2024 The Wire China

Bad-tasting Medicine

Deep linkages exist between forced labor in Xinjiang and the global pharmaceutical supply chain, according to a new report.

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December 2, 2024 BBC

‘Italian’ Purees in UK Supermarkets Likely to Contain Chinese Forced-Labour Tomatoes

“Italian” tomato purees sold by several UK supermarkets appear to contain tomatoes grown and picked in China using forced labour, the BBC has found.

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November 27, 2024 Der Spiegel

Volkswagen verkauft umstrittenes Werk in chinesischer Region Xinjiang

China unterdrückt brutal die Minderheit der Uiguren in Xinjiang – und Volkswagen betreibt ausgerechnet dort eine Fabrik. Nun trennt sich der Konzern von dem Werk. Aktionärsvertreter und das Land Niedersachsen begrüßen die Entscheidung.

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November 27, 2024 Reuters

VW Buckles After Years of Pressure to Sell Up in Xinjiang

Volkswagen will sell its operations in China's Xinjiang, it said on Wednesday, after years of mounting pressure to abandon its presence in a region where rights groups have documented abuses against the Uyghur population.

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November 27, 2024 New York Times

Volkswagen Says It Is Exiting China’s Xinjiang Region After 12 Years

Volkswagen said on Wednesday that it was disposing of its stakes in its facilities in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region, exiting an area now known for China’s crackdown on predominantly Muslim ethnic groups there.

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November 27, 2024 ZDFheute

Volkswagen zieht sich aus Xinjiang zurück

Immer wieder gab es Vorwürfe von Menschenrechtsverletzungen in der VW-Fabrik im chinesischen Ürümqi, die Produktion ruhte zuletzt. Nun verkauft VW seine Beteiligungen.

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November 22, 2024 Wall Street Journal

U.S. to Add Nearly 30 Chinese Companies to Forced-Labor Blacklist

The Biden administration will block imports from more than two dozen Chinese companies over their alleged links to forced labor in the country’s Xinjiang region, its largest-ever expansion of a ban list that took effect in 2022.

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November 21, 2024 Radio Free Asia

European Union Approves Regulation Aimed at Stopping Uyghur Forced Labor

The European Union has approved regulations forbidding the sale of products made with forced labor, a move that activists hope will rein in the abusive practice among Uyghurs in Xinjiang as well as in North Korea and other countries around the world.

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November 19, 2024 Sourcing Journal

‘Everything is Forced Labor’: What the Future of US Textile Trade Enforcement Looks Like

“I like to say that everything seems to be forced labor. It’s textiles, it’s de minimis, it’s just taking a pick of what product it is—there’s some kind of connection to forced labor.”

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November 4, 2024 Sourcing Journal

Esquel Group Added to UFLPA Entity List

Goods from one of the world’s largest apparel makers have been effectively barred from entering the United States over suspected ties to the persecution and exploitation of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in China.

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