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UN experts accuse China of systematic forced labour targeting Uyghurs, Tib
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
UN human rights experts warned that China is using widespread forced labour programmes targeting Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz minorities and Tibetans. They said labour transfers and relocations involve coercion, surveillance and threats, and may amount to crimes against humanity.
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China's modern slavery machine, multinationals directly linked to state-en
Updated : 11 months, 2 weeks ago IST
A recent investigation by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has revealed that South Korean tech giant LG directly owns and operates a factory in China that employs ethnic minority workers under Beijing's controversial labour transfer programme, a scheme widely condemned by human rights
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"Vocational training" programmes in China threaten Tibetan identity, carry
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
"Hundreds of thousands of Tibetans have reportedly been 'transferred' from their traditional rural lives to low-skilled and low-paid employment since 2015, through a programme described as voluntary, but in practice their participation has reportedly been coerced," the UN experts said.
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China-sponsored forced labour in Xinjiang requires comprehensive political
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 8 (ANI): The extent of China-sponsored forced labour in Xinjiang requires a comprehensive political response.
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Newly-uncovered evidence reveals schemes to uproot minorities in China's X
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 3 (ANI): Amid the growing international criticism of human rights abuses in China, newly-uncovered evidence revealed state-run schemes to forcibly uproot, assimilate and reduce the population density of ethnic and religious minorities in the Xinjiang region through c
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China's 'labour transfer policy' in Tibet bears similarities with Xinjiang
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Lhasa [Tibet], December 15 (ANI): Since last year, China has been introducing new policies to promote the centralised and large-scale transfer of 'rural surplus labourers' to parts of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), as well as other provinces of the People's Republic of China in repeated
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