{"id":60394,"date":"2023-12-07T02:05:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T17:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/06\/substantial-volume-of-clothing-tied-to-uyghur-forced-labour-entering-eu-says-study-china"},"modified":"2023-12-07T02:05:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T17:05:10","slug":"substantial-volume-of-clothing-tied-to-uyghur-forced-labour-entering-eu-says-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60394","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Substantial volume\u2019 of clothing tied to Uyghur forced labour entering EU, says study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calls for legislation after dozens of brands identified as being at risk of sourcing materials linked to China\u2019s transfer programmes<\/p>\n<p>A \u201csubstantial volume\u201d of clothing tainted by the use of Uyghur forced labour is entering the European Union market, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/helena-kennedy-centre-international-justice\/research-and-projects\/all-projects\/eu-apparel\">report<\/a>, as campaigners say the EU\u2019s checks are not doing enough to weed out coercive work from large supply chains.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of well-known brands including H&amp;M and Zara are identified as being at high risk of sourcing materials, particularly cotton and PVC, made by Uyghurs compelled to participate in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/13\/what-do-we-know-about-forced-labour-in-xinjiang\">state-imposed labour transfer programmes<\/a>, according to a report from Uyghur Rights Monitor, Sheffield Hallam University and the Uyghur Centre for Democracy and Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/06\/substantial-volume-of-clothing-tied-to-uyghur-forced-labour-entering-eu-says-study-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calls for legislation after dozens of brands identified as being at risk of sourcing materials linked to China\u2019s transfer programmesA \u201csubstantial volume\u201d of clothing tainted by the use of Uyghur forced labour is entering the European Union market, acc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[6,50,221,530,576,1318,335,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-china","category-europe","category-european-union","category-fashion","category-forced-labour","category-retail-industry","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\/60394","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60395,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60394\/revisions\/60395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}