Japanese Firms to Reassess Businesses Using Xinjiang Forced Labor

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image In this file image from undated video footage run by China's CCTV via AP Video, Muslim trainees work in a garment factory at the Hotan Vocational Education and Training Center in Hotan, Xinjiang, northwest China. © CCTV via AP Video, File As the international outcry grows over the Chinese government’s arbitrary detention, forced labor and other egregious abuses against Turkic Muslims in the northwest region of Xinjiang, 12 Japanese companies recently told Kyodo News that they would “cease or consider ceasing business with business partners found to be using forced…

Read complete article

~	South Africa’s constitution was set up as the bedrock of its democracy: it’s been challenged over last 30 years, but has held firm

~	‘Polite littering’ is a rubbish problem – here’s why the British approach to tackling clean ups is not working

~	TikTok users claim freezing bread can make it healthier – here’s what the science actually says

~	Purple Hibiscus: Ibrahim Mahama’s Barbican installation wraps the brutalist building in bright cloth and reveals a hidden history

~	Liz Truss’s lessons on how not to be a prime minister

~	Focus on Rwanda’s safety is a distraction from the dangerous conditions for asylum seekers in the UK

~	Think you’ll never retire? Here are four things young people can do to prepare

~	Philadelphia has a lot more deadly shootings than expected for a big city − and NYC is much safer, new study says

~	Cybersecurity researchers spotlight a new ransomware threat – be careful where you upload files

~	Under the influence and under arrest − what happens if you’re drunk in the interrogation room?