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March 8, 2021

Statement: Honouring the Bravery of Uyghur and Turkic Women

This International Women’s Day, the Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region stands in solidarity with and celebrates the bravery of Tursunay Ziawudun, Gulzire Auelhan, Sayragul Sauytbay, Qelbinur…

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March 8, 2021 Human Rights Watch

Japanese Firms to Reassess Businesses Using Xinjiang Forced Labor

As the international outcry grows over the Chinese government’s arbitrary detention, forced labor and other egregious abuses against Turkic Muslims in the northwest region of Xinjiang, 12 Japanese companies recently told Kyodo News that…

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March 7, 2021 The Wire China

The Xinjiang Silence

The American business community is determined not to comment on the crackdown in Xinjiang — atrocities the U.S. government has deemed a genocide. But how long can their silence last?

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March 7, 2021 Forbes

My Power Suit Cannot Be Tainted By Persecution, Enslavement And Forced Labor Of Uyghur Women

The upcoming International Women’s Day should be used to rethink the impact of our everyday choices on the situation of women. This includes the way we shop. Indeed, recent research…

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March 2, 2021 Drapers

Are you selling China’s slave cotton?

Ugly secrets hiding in the darkest crevices of fashion’s supply chains are being dragged into the light. Last summer, as the sector battled the punishing fallout from the coronavirus crisis,…

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March 2, 2021

An Open Letter to the Fashion and Home-Furnishing Industries

Time is up. We, the Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region, call on all companies to urgently end all links to Uyghur forced labour. The government of…

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February 25, 2021

Statement: US House Bill Would Effectively Block Import of Goods Produced with Uyghur Forced Labour

In the Uyghur Region of Western China (referred to by China as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region), the government of China continues to press ahead with its systematic program to…

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February 22, 2021 The Washington Post

U.S. ban on China’s Xinjiang cotton fractures fashion industry supply chains

Last month, Chinese cotton yarn maker Huafu Fashion sent a warning to investors. “Multiple American brands have canceled orders,” Huafu said in a Shenzhen stock exchange filing, citing U.S. sanctions.…

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February 17, 2021 Foreign Policy

Why Western Companies Should Leave China

In a recent survey, 96 percent of German businesses active in China said they planned to stay there. That’s because there’s money to be made. There is, alas, also the matter…

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February 7, 2021 Human Rights Watch

Australia: Combat Forced Labor of China’s Uyghurs

(Sydney) – The Australian government should strengthen legislation to suspend the import of goods made with forced labor, Human Rights Watch said today in a submission to Australia’s Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade…

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