Uyghur group loses landmark legal challenge
| January 29, 2023 News Digest |
| OUR CAMPAIGN ISSUES IN THE NEWS |
| Law & policy No Uyghur justice in the U.K. Freedom United partner organization, the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), has lost a legal challenge it brought against U.K. authorities for failing to investigate cotton imports linked to forced labor from China’s Uyghur Region. Read more… |
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| Forced labor How Hurricane Katrina recovery workers became trapped in forced labor Squalid work camps, 24-hour shifts, heavy surveillance, and withheld wages: these were the conditions that 500 Indian workers became trapped in after they were lured to the U.S. to repair oil rigs in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Read more… |
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| Child trafficking Gangs abducting children from U.K. government care Dozens of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children have been kidnapped from a Brighton hotel run by the U.K. Home Office, according to a whistleblower, with hundreds more missing in recent months. These children are at high risk of being trafficked into exploitation. |
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