CHINA DENIES HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS CLAIMS OF FORCED CLOTHING AND TEXTILE LABOUR IN XINJIANG
January 1st, 2019
Despite China officially ending its “re-education through labour” programme in 2013, disturbing media reports on detentions of ethnic Muslim minorities in “re-education camps” in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in north-western China have multiplied since mid-2017.
These concerns have started to lose business for Chinese companies. US sportswear-maker Badger on January 9 cut ties with a Chinese supplier Heitain Taida Apparel Co Ltd over its lack of confidence about Heitain documents supposedly demonstrating it had not used forced labour at its in ...
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