US lawmakers ask IOC for assurances uniforms not made through forced labour
Reuters The United States’ Congressional-Executive Commission on China released a letter to the International Olympic Committee on Wednesday voicing concern over forced labour in the production of uniforms ahead of the Beijing Games. The CECC is concerned that Anta Sports and Hengyuanxiang Group, with which the IOC has contracts to produce uniforms, use cotton from […]
CSW among organisations calling for UN Human Rights Council to establish fact-finding mission into Xinjiang detentions
Religious freedom advocacy CSW has joined more than 15 other organisations in calling for the UN Human Rights Council to adopt a resolution to establish a fact-finding mission to investigate claims of arbitrary mass detentions in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in north-east China. The statement, which was also signed by Amnesty International and Human Rights […]