The call for action comes as the US has also ramped up economic pressure over the issue.warned firms against doing business in XinjiangAmerican border officials also seized a shipment of 13 tonnes of hair products from the region worth an estimated $800,000 , while the Commerce Department blacklisted 11 more companies - suppliers said to work with firms such as Apple - a move that limits the ability of those firms to buy US products, citing abuses.
Mr Kanat said he believes an international movement is growing, pointing to recent comments by UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who accused China of"gross and egregious" human rights abuses and said sanctions could not be ruled out.The activist campaign is focused on clothing brands because Xinjiang produces the majority of China's cotton, which accounts for about 20% of the world's supply.
Adidas said it had never sourced products from Xinjiang and the company cited in the ASPI report had falsely claimed to be a supplier.
Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)
PippyPip9 It is time for those major brand names to pay back for what they have abusing for such a long time. They make a lot of money by use of low cost labour, illegal labout force or even blood factories. It is the time!!!
Free all no freedom labours!!!
Why does it sound like they are more like a victim? They have been supposed to do the right thing long ago.
For some people, 'freedom' is out of reach. We need to call on all apparel brands and retailers to stop using raw materials and products that involve forced labor in Xinjiang. And stop being a 'accomplice' with China. prayforuyghurs
These enterprises are earning money from the blood of the oppressed. Shame. China_is_terrorist
Don't buy from china. BoycottMadeInChina
£130 for a replica football kit says it all really
Anyone reading this, i would ask that you just dig a bit deeper. Check out the names Rafio Free Asia, Voice of America, Adrian Zenz. Don't just look at Wikipedia... dig a little deeper.
So since people like to cancel celebrities for small things at the moment, how about all those sports stars sponsored by nike (a brand we already knew had a history of using child labour)? I guess they're just going to ignore that then...doesn't fit the woke agenda?
Interesting that the massive woke mob who were furious about how the coco pops monkey was a racist microaggression are now nowhere to be seen when there's actual slavery going on🤔
I can promise this, I will never purchase anything from Nike or these other companies again.
As they should
How can we trade with these monsters?
the rich are and have been oppressing and extorting the poor all over the world since capitalism began and the vindivtive were allowed to create loopholes. him without sin...
So slave labour is only a problem when the slaves are muslim?
Michael_H85
The statements you see from Tim Cook about making the world better are hilarious whilst at the same time openly use a regime that enslaves the Uighurs. We know Tim saw the recent train video and chooses to ignore it.
Nike time to act .
People will continue buying cheap Chinese produced goods under The designer labels of Nike etc because nobody actually cares that China is a non democratic country and treats It’s citizens poorly.
Surely its impossible to identify what is being produced by slave labour in china. We must put pressure on these companies to cease all chinese manufacturing and business. We must demand that they bring these jobs home, the UK and other western countries.
And the factories in places like Leicester with workers paid £3 per hour? BBC won’t mention that
Yep these companies can put huge pressure on China.
How is it we’re stopping using Huawei products from China due to security issues but Apple products are made in China
The labor population of China is more than 1 billion. Why do you believe that they do need the so-called “few thousands of forced labor”?
Nike is particularly disgusting since they pretend to be all for justice and stuff. Apparently they see no injustice in slave labour nikestore
thank you bbc for taking the boots to china's oppressive overlords and slimy complicit Tim Cook etc
Virtue signalling by day, enslaving Uighurs by night. Nike is a morally bankrupt brand.
bye bye!
Are theses the same brands bugging up black lives matter Diabolical these companies have been abusing people for years and set themselves up to be perfect disgraceful
Why does everything have to do with politics?
Time eBay stopped allowing the Chinese to sell internationally on their marketplace too.
Apple Nike and others be off getting out of China asap they can't say they stand for BLACKLIVESMATTER but be using SlaveLabor within China Apple nike
Thank you BBC for calling out evil companies. Now follow BLM and Antifa donations back to these same corporations and the CCP. You’ll see Xi Jinping‘s global corporate partners financed violent Marxists riots through BLM and Antifa to distract from CCP genocide.
JustPopFashion
So why is that Western Govt's have to do the heavy lifting when Muslim countries remain silent? Muslim countries leaders are cowards, more interested in money than the welfare of the Uighurs. Then they have the audacity to criticize the Jews for being money hungry.
Many Left politicians are completely silent of Chinese repression of Uyghur Muslims. Corbyn has never been known to speak out on the subject. I guess the Uighurs are the wrong kind of Muslims ?!
About time
Imperialist Dictatorships (UK, USA, Aus) suppress minorities from living.
I mean, if we don’t want to enable slavery, why would we do business with them? 💁🏽♂️ Cut ties, bring those jobs home. Plenty of people could use ‘em. 🇺🇸
Short term pain, long term tremendous gain! Decouple from the PRC and bring everything back to the USA! $NKE $AAPL tyi
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