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The Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday it will no longer import steel or artificial sweeteners from two companies based in China due to their alleged use of forced labor. The ...
China Labor Watch (CLW) is a U.S.-based non-profit organization founded in 2000 by labor activist Li Qiang.The organization focuses on investigating labor conditions affecting Chinese workers and raising awareness of labor rights issues.
With the next harvest a mere three months away, cotton mills in China's far west Xinjiang region are currently sitting on about 3 million tonnes of unsold inventory - a massive stockpile more than ...
The overall extent of forced labour and child labour in China is also unclear in part because the government releases only limited information on the subject according to the report on trafficking issued by the U.S. Department of State. [6]
After a sweeping US ban on products from China's Xinjiang region came into effect last month, all eyes are again on the autonomous territory in the country's far west. Washington's Uygur Forced ...
Critics argue that the 996 working hour system is a violation of the Labour Law of the People's Republic of China and have called it "modern slavery". [7] [8] In March 2019, an "anti-996" protest was launched via GitHub. [9] [10] [11] Since then, the 996 issue has been met with growing discontent in China. [12] [13] [14]
The China Labor Bulletin mentioned 2,509 strikes and protests by workers and employees in China. The main reason for these strikes is said to have been because of many factory closures and layoffs. [28] In 2011, many migrant workers did not return to their workplace in Guangzhou, in southern China, after the New Year holidays. The reason for ...
On 24 August 2018, China's official news agency Xinhua News Agency posted a report entitled "Behind the 'rights protection' of workers at Shenzhen Jasic Technology Co., Ltd." in Chinese, [38] and "Investigation on so-called worker incidents in Shenzhen" in English, [39] arguing the incident was instigated by foreign NGOs, especially an ...