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Business Daily: Would you buy a T-shirt made with slave labour?

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Would you buy a T-shirt made with slave labour?

03/09/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Daily, Would you buy a T-shirt made with slave labour?

How can firms keep Uighur forced labour out of their supply chains?

China is accused of detaining millions of people from the Uighur ethnic minority and forcing them to work in factories. Pressure is mounting on foreign businesses to ensure material they source from China does not benefit from that forced labour. Alison Killing, an architect and investigator has found that 268 detention facilities have been built in the Xinjiang province in North-West China in just the last few years. Supply chain expert Kate Larsen says companies are often more at risk of exposure to forced labour than they might realise. But Craig Allen of the US China Business Council says US protections already exist to keep companies away from Uighur labour. And Max Zenglein of the Mercator Institute for China Studies says there are substantial incentives for companies to look the other way.

Produced by Frey Lindsay

(Picture: An alleged Uighur detention facility. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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