August 26, 2020

Fashion can bear the costs of virtue cotton

Dasha AfanasievaLONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Clothing makers’ fair labour credentials are hanging by a thread – a cotton thread. More than 80% of China’s crop (...)

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August 23, 2020

Sanctions on China’s top cotton supplier weave a tangled web for fashion brands

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October 22, 2020

Better Cotton Initiative Stops Xinjiang Field Activity

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December 17, 2020

UK says credible evidence of forced labour in China's Xinjiang region

By Reuters StaffLONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Wednesday there was credible, growing and troubling evidence of forced labour among Uighur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang (...)

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July 22, 2020

Xinjiang cotton and selfie cameras: U.S. blacklists Chinese companies that use forced Uyghur labor

The U.S. blacklisted 11 Chinese companies yesterday, some for well-documented coerced labor, and others for their involvement in invasive biometric tracking of Uyghurs. The companies had supplied American brands such as Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Nike, and Apple.

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March 31, 2021

Investors press companies on human rights in Xinjiang

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September 17, 2020

H&M cuts ties with Chinese supplier

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November 6, 2020

UK to big brands: do more to avoid forced labour in China's Xinjiang

By Kieran GuilbertLONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - British lawmakers on Thursday urged big brands - from Gap to Zara - to ensure high-street fashion was (...)

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June 4, 2021

C&A Exasperated With BCI’s Xinjiang Equivocation. Who’s Next?

By Jasmin Malik ChuaThe Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) has continued to be evasive on the issue of forced labor in China’s cotton-rich Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and C&A, for one, (...)

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July 9, 2021

The hazards of ignorance in cotton supply chains

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