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US lawmakers accuse China of leading global illegal fishing, warn of threa
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
US lawmakers accused China of leading illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing through its distant-water fleet. They warned this threatens global food security, marine ecosystems and US national security. The report also alleged forced labour abuses and called for stronger Coast Guard act
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Amazon sellers linked to Pakistan's exploitative garment factories: A dist
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
A report by Labour Behind the Label exposes widespread labour abuses in Pakistan's garment factories supplying Amazon sellers. Workers face forced overtime, wage theft, and poor conditions, while weak enforcement and Amazon's lax oversight allow exploitation to continue unchecked.
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Coercion is China's modus operandi, whether in domestic cotton fields or e
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Communism was supposed to create workers' paradises, but history demonstrated that was a forlorn hope. China, the global factory, makes much of its outstanding economic growth, but economic coercion internationally, and forced labour abuses at home, are very much part of the Chinese Communis
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International alliance of MPs calls for blacklisting of Chinese firms over
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
London [UK], January 27 (ANI): An international cross-party network of legislators across the European Union, the United Kingdom, India, Australia and Canada have called on their governments to block investors from bankrolling firms perpetrating forced labour abuses in China's Xinjiang provi
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Global parliamentary alliance calls for reform of supply chains over force
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], June 10 (ANI): Amid the ongoing Group of Seven (G7) summit in UK, a cross-party Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) has called on G7 leaders to reform global supply chains in light of widespread forced labour abuses in Xinjiang region.
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Workers in Chinese tech companies pushed to limits due to surveillance, lo
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 9 (ANI): As Chinese tech companies are attempting to bring productivity-enhancing tools into everyday office life, their efficiency is being channeled into squeezing more value from employees by using software-driven surveillance management and monitoring into their pro
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Uzbekistan emerging as preferred cotton supplier as buyers turn away from
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Beijing [China], May 18 (ANI): Despite ranking second globally in cotton production, China has come under immense international pressure, with critics accusing it of labour abuses in Xinjiang, prompting buyers to look elsewhere for cotton supplies to avoid the political fallout.
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