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12 Japan firms will kill business deals involving #Uyghur forced labor
//Twelve major Japanese companies have established a policy of ceasing business deals with Chinese companies found to benefit from the forced labor of the Muslim Uyghur minority in China's far-western Xinjiang region.
In a report last year, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute identified over 80 global companies "directly or indirectly benefiting from the use of Uyghur workers outside #Xinjiang through abusive labor transfer programs."
Kyodo News recently asked 14 Japanese companies mentioned by the think tank how they plan to respond.
With the exception of Panasonic Corp., which declined to comment, all companies either denied directly doing business with companies suspected of benefiting from forced labor or said they could not verify the claims against their suppliers.
The 12 include Toshiba Corp., Fast Retailing Co., operator of the Uniqlo casual clothing brand, Sony Corp. and Hitachi Ltd.//
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https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/02/b25bf2a754e7-12-japan-firms-will-kill-business-deals-involving-uyghur-forced-labor.html
Source: Kyodo News #Feb21
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12 Japan firms will kill business deals involving #Uyghur forced labor
//Twelve major Japanese companies have established a policy of ceasing business deals with Chinese companies found to benefit from the forced labor of the Muslim Uyghur minority in China's far-western Xinjiang region.
In a report last year, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute identified over 80 global companies "directly or indirectly benefiting from the use of Uyghur workers outside #Xinjiang through abusive labor transfer programs."
Kyodo News recently asked 14 Japanese companies mentioned by the think tank how they plan to respond.
With the exception of Panasonic Corp., which declined to comment, all companies either denied directly doing business with companies suspected of benefiting from forced labor or said they could not verify the claims against their suppliers.
The 12 include Toshiba Corp., Fast Retailing Co., operator of the Uniqlo casual clothing brand, Sony Corp. and Hitachi Ltd.//
Read full article:
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/02/b25bf2a754e7-12-japan-firms-will-kill-business-deals-involving-uyghur-forced-labor.html
Source: Kyodo News #Feb21
#Cotton #JapaneseCompany #Toshiba #Uniqlo #Sony #Hitachi #HumanRights
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12 Japan firms will kill business deals involving Uyghur forced labor
Twelve major Japanese companies have established a policy of ceasing business deals with Chinese companies found to benefit from the forced labor of the Muslim Uyghur minority in China's far-western Xinjiang region, a Kyodo News investigation showed.