{"id":50497,"date":"2022-11-24T03:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/23\/major-pension-funds-exposed-companies-investing-uyghur-repression-china"},"modified":"2022-11-24T03:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T18:00:06","slug":"major-funds-exposed-to-companies-allegedly-engaged-in-uyghur-repression-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50497","title":{"rendered":"Major funds exposed to companies allegedly engaged in Uyghur repression in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Report finds stock indexes provided by MSCI include companies using forced labour or constructing surveillance state in Xinjiang<\/p>\n<p>Many of the world\u2019s largest asset managers and state pension funds are passively investing in companies that have allegedly engaged in the repression of Uyghur Muslims in China, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>The report, by UK-based group Hong Kong Watch and the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice at Sheffield Hallam University, found that three major stock indexes provided by MSCI include at least 13 companies that have allegedly used forced labour or been involved in the construction of the surveillance state in China\u2019s Xinjiang region.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/23\/major-pension-funds-exposed-companies-investing-uyghur-repression-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report finds stock indexes provided by MSCI include companies using forced labour or constructing surveillance state in XinjiangMany of the world\u2019s largest asset managers and state pension funds are passively investing in companies that have allegedly &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3007,"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":[41,291,6,50,53,447,371,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-banking","category-business","category-china","category-human-rights","category-islam","category-religion","category-uyghurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50497","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\/3007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50498,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50497\/revisions\/50498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}