March 27, 2021
How brands are responding to China’s Xinjiang boycotts: deleting past statements or all-out flip-flops
BY GRADY MCGREGORSome of the world’s largest apparel companies are facing an unprecedented reckoning in China as state media outlets and social media campaigns call for (...)
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August 23, 2020
Sanctions on China’s top cotton supplier weave a tangled web for fashion brands
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March 7, 2020
Uzbekistan scraps cotton state-order system
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November 11, 2019
Uzbekistan looks to soften image of notorious cotton sector
Uzbekistan says it wants to eradicate forced labour in its cotton industry after decades of abuse / © AFPFor years, nurse Shokhidakhon Khasanova was signed (...)
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July 22, 2020
Xinjiang cotton and selfie cameras: U.S. blacklists Chinese companies that use forced Uyghur labor
The U.S. blacklisted 11 Chinese companies yesterday, some for well-documented coerced labor, and others for their involvement in invasive biometric tracking of Uyghurs. The companies had supplied American brands such as Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Nike, and Apple.
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April 16, 2020
Uzbekistan asks rights groups to lift cotton boycott
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June 4, 2021
C&A Exasperated With BCI’s Xinjiang Equivocation. Who’s Next?
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September 18, 2020
Apparel group says broad ban on China's Xinjiang cotton impossible to enforce
By David LawderWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of a major apparel industry group told lawmakers on Thursday that blanket U.S. import bans on cotton or (...)
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March 31, 2021
Investors press companies on human rights in Xinjiang
By Ross Kerber, Victoria WalderseeBOSTON/LISBON (Reuters) - A group of religious and socially conscious investors and other funds are ramping up pressure on Western companies (...)
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October 18, 2019
For the sake of workers, Uzbekistan is privatising its cotton industry
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