NCA failure to investigate imports linked to forced Uyghur labour unlawful, court rules
Human rights group urges UK financial regulator to block Shein’s LSE flotation
Stop Shein listing on the FTSE, workers’ rights campaigners urge
Rights and freedom
Saudi Arabia accused of using forced labour ahead of Fifa World Cup decision
March 2024
Rights and freedom
Sexual exploitation drives 37% rise in profits from forced labour, ILO says
International Labour Organization report says profits have risen to £184bn a year, with 27m people globally trapped in modern slavery
January 2024
Myanmar: three years on from the coup
Huge and secretive prison expansion in Myanmar revealed by satellite images
Junta’s vast programme of building prisons and labour camps raises fears of intensified crackdown against country’s pro-democracy movement
December 2023
Chiropractor asks for no jail time after subjecting refugee to forced labour at Melbourne confectionery shop
‘Substantial volume’ of clothing tied to Uyghur forced labour entering EU, says study
November 2023
The people targeting you with cyberscams may themselves be victims of slavery
James Cockayne
Hundreds of thousands across south-east Asia are forced to work for industrial-scale criminal enterprises. Reporting scams is therefore critical
The age of extinction
BP and Spotify bought carbon credits at risk of link to forced Uyghur labour in China
Credits sourced from carbon project that was centred on biomass power plant in Xinjiang, investigation finds
What do we know about forced labour in Xinjiang?
Beijing says labour transfers are poverty alleviation tool, but research raises concerns schemes are not voluntary
October 2023
Scottish Water admits solar farms could use parts linked to China’s forced labour camps
Company has installed tens of thousands of solar panels – at 66 sites – which it now suspects are linked to slave labour
September 2023
Business is booming for human traffickers because they know they’ll get away with it
Gordon Brown
UK solar could be ‘dumping ground’ for products of Chinese forced labour, ministers warned
May 2023
Cotton100% review – how forced labour paid the price of Uzbekistan’s ‘white gold’
Two brave women stand up for human rights as hordes of Uzbeks are dragged from their workplaces to pick state cotton, in this compelling documentary exposing farming practices only just outlawed
April 2023
‘I couldn’t escape’: the people trafficked into call centres and forced to scam Australians
Thousands are trapped into slavery across Asia – but, with the conviction of three traffickers in Indonesia, the tide may be turning
March 2023
Brazil may sue VW amid claims firm used ‘slave labour’ under military rule
Prosecutors seek compensation for workers kept on cattle ranch owned by German carmaker during dictatorship from 1973 to 1987
January 2023
Thai police accused of ‘sham’ forced labour inquiry at former Tesco supplier
Exclusive: Officials took one day to conclude no laws were broken at VK Garment factory and workers say their words were deleted
December 2022
Workers in Thailand who made F&F jeans for Tesco ‘trapped in effective forced labour’
Exclusive: Supermarket faces landmark lawsuit in the UK from 130 former workers alleging negligence
October 2022
Failure to investigate UK imports linked to forced Uyghur labour unlawful, court told
World Uyghur Forum brings high court challenge against government agencies over Xinjiang cotton imports
