{"id":27023,"date":"2021-01-19T01:28:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T16:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/18\/forced-labour-clampdown-is-long-overdue"},"modified":"2021-01-19T01:28:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T16:28:52","slug":"forced-labour-clampdown-is-long-overdue-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27023","title":{"rendered":"Forced labour clampdown is long overdue | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John Morrison <\/strong>and <strong>Sam Watson <\/strong>on Dominic Raab\u2019s commitment to fine businesses over modern-day slavery in supply chains<\/p>\n<p>The commitment made by Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, to strengthen businesses\u2019 supply chain requirements under the Modern Slavery Act are welcome, if overdue (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/12\/chinas-treatment-of-uighurs-amounts-to-torture-dominic-raab\" title=\"\">China\u2019s treatment of Uighurs amounts to torture, says Dominic Raab<\/a>, 12 January).<\/p>\n<p>For him to choose the situation facing the Uighurs in China to do so also seems appropriate, but it represents a blunt instrument for the task in hand. Fines for companies that refuse to issue modern slavery statements will increase the number of statements, but not necessarily their quality.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/18\/forced-labour-clampdown-is-long-overdue\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Morrison and Sam Watson on Dominic Raab\u2019s commitment to fine businesses over modern-day slavery in supply chainsThe commitment made by Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, to strengthen businesses\u2019 supply chain requirements under the Modern Slaver&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,50,950,53,447,4,713,67,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-dominic-raab","category-human-rights","category-islam","category-politics","category-slavery","category-uighurs","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27024,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27023\/revisions\/27024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}