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23 Dec 2022, 7:35 am
In the US, the adopted the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act seeks to prevent imports of all products ‘mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China’ – a level of targeting that calls into question its reconstructive rather than deconstructive character – while the proposed Fostering Overseas Rule of law and Environmentally Sound Trade (FOREST) Act would prohibit ‘import[ation of] any product made… [read post]
23 Dec 2022, 7:35 am
In the US, the adopted the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act seeks to prevent imports of all products ‘mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China’ – a level of targeting that calls into question its reconstructive rather than deconstructive character – while the proposed Fostering Overseas Rule of law and Environmentally Sound Trade (FOREST) Act would prohibit ‘import[ation of] any product made… [read post]
23 Dec 2022, 4:38 am
In a letter sent yesterday, the committee asked the chief executives of eight auto makers to provide detailed information on their supply chains to help determine any connection to Xinjiang, where the U.S. government has alleged the use of forced labor involving the Uyghur ethnic minority. [read post]
10 Dec 2022, 7:44 am
Harper and the Perils of Finding “Compromise” on the Independent State Legislature Theory by Kate Shaw (@kateashaw1) Congressional Oversight Just Security Podcast: The Balance of Power in a New Senate by Paras Shah (@pshah518) Climate Change – “Ecoside” Watch This Space: Momentum Toward an International Crime of Ecocide by Kate Mackintosh (@Katemackintosh2) and Lisa Oldring (@lisa_oldring) Global Justice: Khmer Rouge Trials and Crimes Against Humanity UN Talks on Crimes… [read post]
8 Dec 2022, 10:01 pm
After six years of genocide, hope is hard to come by for us Uyghurs. [read post]
8 Dec 2022, 6:32 am
Additionally, there have been significant legal and regulatory developments regarding human rights-related issues, such as the recent enforcement of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) which came into effect in June 2022 and the EU’s September 2022 proposed ban on goods made with forced labor – and accompanying social compliance-related reassessments of supply chain human rights due diligence (mostly limited to tier 1 finished goods facilities),… [read post]
8 Dec 2022, 6:32 am
Additionally, there have been significant legal and regulatory developments regarding human rights-related issues, such as the recent enforcement of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) which came into effect in June 2022 and the EU’s September 2022 proposed ban on goods made with forced labor – and accompanying social compliance-related reassessments of supply chain human rights due diligence (mostly limited to tier 1 finished goods facilities),… [read post]
7 Dec 2022, 9:43 am
Research was con- ducted in English, Mandarin and Uyghur languages. [read post]
5 Dec 2022, 9:15 am
Blog posts & press:Addressing backlog in refugee cases is key to ensuring integrity in our migration system (Asylum Insight, Dec. 2022) [text]Displaced, dispossessed and deprived of rights: the Rohingya of Myanmar (United Against Inhumanity, Nov. 2022) [text]"For Rohingya refugees, rising dangers and a long road to repatriation," The New Humanitarian, 10 Nov. 2022 [text]"In Afghanistan’s shadowy new conflict, new displacement and new civilian abuses," The New… [read post]
5 Dec 2022, 6:12 am
IMAGE: Members of the Muslim Uyghur minority present pictures of their relatives detained in China, during a press conference in Istanbul, on May 10, 2022. [read post]
1 Dec 2022, 2:22 pm
All of the dead were Uyghurs. [read post]
23 Nov 2022, 5:04 pm
We also continue to record the severe crackdown against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims, Tibetans and Hong Kongers. [read post]
21 Nov 2022, 6:30 am
Posted by Maia Gez, Era Anagnosti, Melinda Anderson, White & Case LLP, on Monday, November 21, 2022 Editor's Note: Maia Gez and Era Anagnosti are Partners and Melinda Anderson is Counsel at White & Case LLP. [read post]
21 Nov 2022, 6:30 am
Posted by Maia Gez, Era Anagnosti, Melinda Anderson, White & Case LLP, on Monday, November 21, 2022 Editor's Note: Maia Gez and Era Anagnosti are Partners and Melinda Anderson is Counsel at White & Case LLP. [read post]
9 Nov 2022, 11:41 am
Implementation of the zero-COVID policy has exposed planning and emergency management shortcomings and human rights violations in locations under full and partial lockdown, such as Shanghai, Jilin and Xi’an, and more recently in Lhasa and in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. [read post]
2 Nov 2022, 5:56 am
In 2021, several media outlets reported that China was trying to use climate change diplomacy to weaken U.S. pressure on its human rights record, especially after the U.S. government placed sanctions on China’s solar industry for its links to forced labor of Uyghur people. [read post]
26 Oct 2022, 12:22 pm
The posters decried the internment and execution of Uyghurs, the crackdown on freedoms in Hong Kong, and China’s lack of transparency during the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic. [read post]
25 Oct 2022, 1:10 pm
But instead of dealing with the existential threats from global warming and other environmental changes: Putin invades Ukraine; They’re fighting in Africa; There’s no peace in Palestine; The Tonton Macoute rules Haiti for its own benefit; Gangs or clicas extort what little Central Americans have; China threatens Taiwan and muzzles Uyghur Muslims; And America is terrified of melanin which turns skin brown or black. [read post]
21 Oct 2022, 1:48 pm
Department of Homeland Security’s assertions regarding CBP’s enforcement of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act through seizure and forfeiture and discussed the lack of a clear legal basis in U.S. customs law for this kind of enforcement. [read post]
18 Oct 2022, 8:42 am
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have the legal authority to seize imported goods that were made with forced Uyghur labor? [read post]
