Forced labor

Insights 02/14/22, 19:59

China is facing disruptions in its supply chain due to new lockdowns from its Zero-Covid policy. The woes could worsen as U.S. lawmakers introduce a bipartisan bill to hold American businesses accountable for having slave labor in supply chains. Slave-Free Business Certification Act U.S. Senators Josh Hawley and Kirsten Gillibrand, on Feb. ...

Human Rights 01/26/22, 01:00

The 35 lawmakers from countries including the United States, United Kingdom, India, and others that make up the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China [IPAC] call on their respective countries to sanction individuals and companies that finance Uighur labor enslaved by the Chinese communist regime.  "We cannot ignore the role that big banks ...

D.C. 12/02/21, 15:06

In a last-minute intervention Senate Democrats excluded a bill banning the importation of goods made by millions of people held in concentration camps by the Chinese Communist regime. This bill, titled the Uighur Forced Labor Prevention Act, was excluded from the annual defense appropriations bill last night, according to a memo ...

China 11/21/21, 02:07

NBA superstar LeBron James on Friday, Nov. 19, fired back at Enis Kanter over spotlight sneakers that mock his deal with Nike which allegedly have its products sourced from Chinese forced labor camps. James said Kanter was only attacking him for his name, and that the Celtics backup center would not ...

China 11/12/21, 16:00

Under an opinion piece recalling the horror of Uighurs incarcerated in a Chinese detention camp, an editor's note repeated the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) justification for conducting torture methods against the minority group. "The Chinese government [CCP] has repeatedly denied any allegations of crimes—including forced labor and forced sterilization—against the Uighurs ...

America 11/05/21, 17:21

Michael Carey Abadin is a 19-year-old Canadian young man, who after the peaceful protests in Cuba during the month of July, was detained by the police and is still behind bars. According to the allegations, the young man was subjected to forced labor, has contracted several serious illnesses, and given ...

China 05/19/21, 20:50

U.S. Customs blocked a shipment of clothing from Uniqlo, a Japanese company, on Jan. 5 at the Port of Los Angeles, but the news came to light Wednesday, May 19, because the Chinese government denounced customs officials. The blockade of a shipment of Uniqlo brand men's clothing whose parent company is ...

China 09/15/20, 02:59

A federal border control authority is banning products that appear to be made from forced labor. A variety of fabric, clothing, hair products, and computer parts will be prohibited because there are reasonable grounds to suspect they originated from state-sponsored forced labor camps in mainland China. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) ...

China 10/03/19, 14:28

The government recently announced that it will stop importing clothing, precious metals, and other goods suspected of having been produced by forced labor in various parts of the world. One of the companies sanctioned is Hetian Taida Apparel Co. Ltd., which is located in Xinjiang, a region of China strongly ...

Business 10/02/19, 03:36

The Trump administration on Tuesday announced it is holding imports of clothing, gold, diamonds and other items believed to have been produced with forced labor by companies based in Brazil, China and Malaysia as well as some gold mined in eastern Congo and diamonds from a region in Zimbabwe. An official ...

World 04/04/19, 03:51

Survivors and family members of laborers forced to work during WWII have sued another Japanese company seeking compensation

China 03/09/19, 17:57

(Minghui.org) A 22-year-old young man suffered a mental collapse after seven months of torture in a forced labor camp in China. He was incarcerated for practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline being persecuted by the Chinese communist regime. Mr. Wang Jian spent the next 18 years fighting mental instability and declining ...

Business 01/08/19, 22:03

A South Korean district court said Wednesday it has decided to freeze the local assets of a Japanese company involved in compensation disputes for wartime Korean laborers.Last October, South Korea's top court ordered Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. to pay 100 million won ($88,000) each to four plaintiffs forced ...

China 12/20/18, 06:49

The Chinese government lashed out Thursday at recent U.S. media reports about forced labor of mostly ethnic Muslim detainees in China's far western Xinjiang region. The stories are "a malicious attack that severely distorts the fact," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily news briefing in response to a ...

Business 12/19/18, 22:12

From toys to clothing to the food on the Christmas dinner table, it could all be the result of forced labor or child labor

World 12/19/18, 05:05

The U.S. government said Tuesday that it is reviewing reports of forced labor at a Chinese internment camp where ethnic minorities are sewing clothes that have been shipped to the U.S. market. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement that reporting by The Associated Press and other media "for ...

World 11/28/18, 22:12

South Korea's top court on Thursday ordered a Japanese company to compensate 10 Koreans for forced labor during Tokyo's 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, in the second such ruling in a month that again drew strong protests from Japan.The latest verdict on Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was widely expected ...

World 10/30/18, 02:25

In a potentially far-reaching decision, South Korea's Supreme Court has ruled that a Japanese steelmaker should compensate four South Koreans for forced labor during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula before the end of World War II.The long-awaited ruling, delivered after more than five years of deliberation at Seoul's ...