Australia: Combat Forced Labor of China’s Uyghurs

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Workers amidst massive piles of cotton in China's Xinjiang province. © 2015 Imaginechina via AP Images (Sydney) – The Australian government should strengthen legislation to suspend the import of goods made with forced labor, Human Rights Watch said today in a submission to Australia’s Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee. Australia needs to adopt urgent measures to address China’s alleged use of forced labor of Uyghur and other Muslim minorities from the Xinjiang region. “There are credible complaints of forced labor of Uyghur and other…

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