All posts tagged with forced labor
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-(Natural News) Apple is lobbying to weaken the proposed Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act according to two anonymous congressional staffers. The bill seeks to forbid American companies from employing slave workers from the Xinjiang region in China, where human rights violations are thought to be rife. In October, reports surfaced that the tech giant paid an outside firm, Fierce […]
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-(Natural News) United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized a 13-ton shipment of beauty products from China, amounting to $800,000 in July. The shipment, which included wigs made of human hair suspected to be taken from prisoners, originated from the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in northwestern China. CBP officers seized the shipment compliant […]
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-(Natural News) American company Pure Circle is being fined $575,000 by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for importing powdered sweetener products that were made using forced prison labor in Communist China. Back in June 2016, a shipment of stevia, a low-calorie sweetener, from China to Pure Circle was impounded by the CBP because of a […]
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-(Natural News) American companies should stop supplying technology to Beijing, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said, noting the Chinese government’s hardline stance on religious and cultural expression. “Tech companies need to remember that they are American tech companies. And they should be sensitive to the values that we stand for,” USCIRF Commissioner Gary […]
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-(Natural News) According to a coalition of over 180 human rights groups, many of the world’s biggest fashion brands and retailers are complicit in the forced labor and human rights violations perpetrated on millions of Uyghur people in China’s Xinjiang region. The Chinese government has been accused of committing a wide range of atrocities against […]
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-(Natural News) Your favorite “woke” and “socially conscious” brands may be profiting off the products of slave labor, a new report has revealed. Think tank Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), in its report titled “Uyghurs For Sale,” noted that big, well-known global companies and brands such as Amazon, GAP, H&M, Nike, Apple, Samsung, Sony and […]
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-(Natural News) The smartphone you are using may be a product of forced labor and modern-day slavery, according to a report by the think tank Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). The report, released on March 1, details how several thousand ethnic Muslims from China’s Xinjiang region are forced into modern-day slave labor in a network of […]
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-(Natural News) Russian medical students have decried a measure that requires them to work at coronavirus clinics or face expulsion. The measure, which came into effect May 1, has been compared by some students to forced labor. “This is not volunteering by choice. Coronavirus is dangerous, and they should give people a choice,” said Alexandra, a fourth-year […]
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-(Natural News) For decades now, China’s Communist leaders have been working diligently to undermine the United States and supplant our country as the world’s foremost power. Along the way, the Chinese have been helped by Americans. American consumers have been buying hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of Chinese products, mostly because they are cheap […]
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