{"id":44209,"date":"2022-05-05T23:25:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T14:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/05\/xinjiang-cotton-found-adidas-puma-hugo-boss-tops-researchers-claim-uyghur"},"modified":"2022-05-06T00:58:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T15:58:37","slug":"xinjiang-cotton-found-in-adidas-puma-and-hugo-boss-tops-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44209","title":{"rendered":"Xinjiang cotton found in Adidas, Puma and Hugo Boss tops, researchers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traces in shirts and T-shirts appear to contradict German firms\u2019 promises to revise supply chains<\/p>\n<p>Researchers say they have found traces of Xinjiang cotton in shirts and T-shirts made by Adidas, Puma and Hugo Boss, appearing to contradict the German clothing companies\u2019 promises to revise their supply chains after allegations of widespread forced labour in the Chinese region.<\/p>\n<p>Recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/15\/xinjiang-china-more-than-half-a-million-forced-to-pick-cotton-report-finds\">reports<\/a> have suggested more than half a million people from minority ethnic groups such as the Uyghurs have been coerced into picking cotton in Xinjiang, which provides more than 80% of China\u2019s and a fifth of the global production of cotton.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/05\/xinjiang-cotton-found-adidas-puma-hugo-boss-tops-researchers-claim-uyghur\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traces in shirts and T-shirts appear to contradict German firms\u2019 promises to revise supply chainsResearchers say they have found traces of Xinjiang cotton in shirts and T-shirts made by Adidas, Puma and Hugo Boss, appearing to contradict the German clo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"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":[41,50,221,576,833,1318,533,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-fashion","category-fashion-industry","category-forced-labour","category-germany","category-uyghurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44209","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\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44215,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44209\/revisions\/44215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}