📢 We’re excited to announce the Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region is now on LinkedIn! We’re a coalition of over 400 civil society organisations and trade unions from more than 45 countries united to end state-imposed forced labour of Uyghurs and other Turkic and Muslim-majority peoples. We’re calling on corporations to immediately disengage from the Uyghur Region and governments to adopt legislation to ban the imports of goods made with state-imposed forced labour. Follow us to stay up to date on our advocacy work and share our page with your network. Join us in the movement to #EndUyghurForcedLabour!
Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region
Civic and Social Organizations
Calling for an end to state-imposed Uyghur forced labour
About us
The Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region is a global coalition of civil society organisations, Uyghur-led organisations, trade unions, faith-based groups, and investors united to end state-imposed forced labour and other egregious human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic and Muslim-majority peoples from the Uyghur Region in China, known to local people as East Turkistan. The Coalition calls on all companies and governments to take urgent action to ensure that they are not supporting or benefiting from state-imposed forced labour Companies should take verifiable measures to immediately disengage from the Uyghur Region. Governments should rapidly adopt and robustly enforce import control legislation banning imports of goods made with forced labour.
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External link for Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region
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- Civic and Social Organizations
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- 2-10 employees
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- London
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- Nonprofit
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- 2020
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- state-imposed forced labour, uyghur forced labour, forced labour import bans, and uyghur region
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#UyghurForcedLabour remains widespread across the supply chains of at least 17 global industries, including apparel and textiles, information and communication technology, solar industries, automotive, and critical minerals. Hundreds of corporations are implicated in #StateImposedForcedLabour and crimes against humanity today. It is imperative that businesses take a stand. It is impossible for business to undertake credible on-the-ground human rights due diligence to effectively prevent or mitigate harms in state-imposed forced labour contexts. The only responsible course of action is for businesses to fully disengage from the Uyghur Region in accordance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. We urge businesses in all sectors to immediately exit from the Uyghur Region to ensure they are not benefitting from or contributing to state-imposed forced labour. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eKdT7Y9
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As of last week, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List now includes over 100 entities. The Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (FLETF) added 29 new companies to the Entity List, primarily from the agricultural sector and minerals industries. These additions include businesses involved in the production and sale of tomato paste, walnuts, red dates, and raisins as well as key metals such as aluminium, copper, lithium, beryllium, nickel, manganese, and gold – all linked to state-imposed #UyghurForcedLabour. We welcome these additions and hope to see a faster increase in the rate of expansion of the Entity List across high-risk industries and supply chains. Read our previous statement: https://lnkd.in/eJhaE_YR Check out these reports for detailed supply chain links to the Uyghur Region. - Evidence Briefs by Sheffield Hallam University - Asleep at the Wheel by Human Rights Watch - Fractured Veins by C4ADS - Fruits of Uyghur Forced Labor by Uyghur Human Rights Project https://lnkd.in/ewVeTdAd
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Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region reposted this
We're at the #UN Forum on Business and Human Rights! Together with partners and allies such as Elfidar Iltebir UYGHUR AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INC , Uyghur Human Rights Project and Campaign for Uyghurs, we want to ensure that the green transition is just and sustainable, respecting workers’ and human rights. That is why we are standing side by side, calling on governments and businesses to make sure that industries such as solar and electric vehicles do not rely on Uyghur forced labour. Hear more about what we are doing in Geneva from Uyghur allies ⬇️ and make sure to connect if you are here. #UNForumBHR
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Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region reposted this
The Uyghur Human Rights Project is at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights this week in 🇺🇳 Geneva with partners to call attention to Uyghur forced labor + to urge businesses to extricate supply chains from the Uyghur Region. #UNForumBHR #BizHumanRights UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights
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🎉 The adoption of the EU #ForcedLabour Regulation (FLR) marks a significant step forward in the fight against forced labour in global supply chains - both private and #StateImposedForcedLabour. The FLR should be robustly implemented and enforced to address state-imposed Uyghur forced labour, which is found in the supply chains of over 17 industries - from apparel to solar panels and EV batteries to pharmaceuticals. 📢 Companies should see this as a signal to immediately exit the Uyghur Region. Continued inaction of Uyghur forced labour will risk losing access to the EU market.
💪 After being stucked in the corrigendum procedure, the EU #ForcedLabour Regulation was finally adopted yesterday. Next steps are the formal signature next week, publication in the EU official Journal and implementation will start in about 3 years so probably early 2028. 📢 Advocating for this law started early 2021 for me, while working with Anti-Slavery International, in close cooperation with Chloe C., Sian Lea & Ben Vanpeperstraete. While some of the details of the enforcement still need to be decided through delegated acts, implementing acts or guidances, the key elements are in. 👉 The law bans products (or components) made in part or in whole with forced labour, both in private #SupplyChains or in #StateImposedForcedLabour, down to the #RawMaterial level. 👉 All companies are concerned, regardless or size or location. 👉 Forced labour cases occurring inside the EU will be handled by the concerned Member State while cases occurring outside the EU will be handled by the European Commission. 👉 The burden of proof lies on enforcement authorities, not on the companies. 👉 A set of supportive tools and measures will be published prior to the implementation, including a forced labour #RiskDatabase where areas and product groups at high-risk of State-Imposed Forced Labour (SIFL) will be listed to inform companies' due diligence efforts. 🏭 When investigated, companies will have the possibility to present the #duediligence efforts made in relation to a product under investigation, including how they addressed and potentially remediated the concerned case. ⏱ #Prevention will thus be the best defense as a company's ability to show that they have appropriately #identified, #addressed and #remediated forced labour in their supply chains might avoid a case to be moved from the preliminary stage of the investigation to the full investigation stage and a potential sanction Thus: 💡 #Traceability and #Mapping of one's supply chain is essential as a first step. 💡 Embedding the fight against forced labour as part of #PurchasingPractices is essential to address the root causes leading to forced labour. 💡 Engaging with #Stakeholders, in particular at local level is essential to meaningfully address cases. ☢ While companies can address and remediate forced labour in private supply chain, ending #StateImposedForcedLabour (SIFL) such as happening in the #Uyghur Region of #China, in the cotton fields of #Turkmenistan or in #DPRK, is beyond one company's leverage and ability. ⛔ Therefore, disengagement from regions at high-risk of #SIFL is the only solution, as recommended by the Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region and the Cotton Campaign ! 📅 Coming soon: Human Rights Watch & Cornell University (Samira Rafaela) are working on a joint paper to give a more detailed analysis, including on the complementarities between the #FLR and the #CSDDD! https://lnkd.in/e6gh4zxx
EU Adopts New Regulation to Curtail Forced Labor
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Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region reposted this
It's that time of year...I'll be heading to the #UNForumBHR, together with my colleagues Adrià Cots Fernández and Eloise Savill. Anti-Slavery International's focus this year will be on the EU's #CSDDD and how we can make sure that workers and communities, particularly in the Global South, hold the power and tools necessary to secure meaningful and transformational implementation of the Directive. We are delighted to be joined by our partners Carolina Rudnick Vizcarra from LIBERA Fundación contra la Trata de Personas y la Esclavitud en Todas sus Formas and Joseph Byomuhangyi from the Uganda Consortium on Corporate Accountability and Angella Kasule Nabwowe from Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER) for these discussions. We will also be focusing on raising the rights of workers, migrants and communities in the #justtransition across all industries, including the rights of Uyghurs, due to the systematic use of #UyghurForcedLabour in our transition to clean energy. And we will be joined by Patricia Carrier from Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region, Elfidar Iltebir from Uyghur American Association, Campaign for Uyghurs and others to raise this important agenda. For many years now, the issue of Uyghur forced labour has been largely excluded from the formal agenda of the #UNForumBHR, despite being one of the biggest human rights crises facing businesses for the past five years. If you are attending the Forum, and want to discuss any of the above, please get in touch.
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The Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region will be at the #UNForumBHR in Geneva next week to raise the issue of #UyghurForcedLabour with the business and human rights community. If you are also attending, we would love to connect with you. Get in touch with our Business Engagement Lead, Patricia Carrier.
Last week, we attended the #UnForumBHR. A big focus of our week there was to raise awareness of the crisis of #Uyghur #forcedlabour. Despite the abuses in the #UyghurRegion being one of the biggest Business and Human Rights crises facing global businesses in decades, the crisis has not formally been on the UN Forum’s agenda to date. Last week, some people we spoke to even referred to it as the “elephant in the room”. To challenge this omission, we – as part of the Steering Committee of the Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region – supported a delegation of representatives of Uyghur rights’ groups to attend the Forum. We are pleased to have been able to support them in bringing their demands to the #bizhumanrights community, to be clear that full disengagement from the Uyghur Region is the only way businesses can avoid contributing to the abuses in the Region. This is due to the severity of the harm, the impossibility of conducting credible due diligence on-the-ground, and the impossibility to use or increase leverage to prevent, mitigate or remediate the harm. Below is a video of our Coalition representative calling on the #UNForumBHR to recognise this. We encourage readers to understand the courage and resilience it requires for the Uyghur community to fight for their rights, in the face of ongoing transnational intimidation tactics of the Chinese government. We thank everyone last week who showed their support to the Uyghur community. Uyghur Human Rights Project, World Uyghur Congress, UYGHUR AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INC, Campaign for Uyghurs, Zumretay Arkin, Peter Irwin, Elfidar Iltebir and Patricia Carrier
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Do you want to get involved in our movement to end state-imposed Uyghur forced labour? Visit our website to learn more about our work; read our statements, submissions, and FAQs, stories of impacted individuals; and stay up to date on the latest news, research, and grassroots action related to state-imposed Uyghur forced labour. https://lnkd.in/dZYmp4w Send us a message on LinkedIn or email us at contact@enduyghurforcedlabour.org if you have any questions or comments!
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