News / Human rights abuse alert as China's Xinjiang supply chain links expand

Known and suspected detention facilities in Kashgar, Hotan and Urumqi between Jan 2016 and Sep 2018. Source: Australian Strategic Policy Institute

By Gavin van Marle

13/09/2019

Food and hi-tech electronic supply chains have been warned they may be caught up in the growing use of forced labour in China’s western Xinjiang province.

The province is home to China’s Uyghur ethnic minority, which in recent years has been the subject of a government ...

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