Responses to the Uyghur Crisis and the Implications for Business and Human Rights Legislation

• Autores: Rosa Polaschek
• Localización: Business and Human Rights Journal, ISSN 2057-0198, ISSN-e 2057-0201, Vol. 6, Nº. 3, 2021, págs. 567-575
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • As has now been well publicized, there is serious and credible evidence that Uyghur and other minority communities in China are being forced into internment or ‘re-education’ camps,1 with strong links to subsequent forced labour in factories, particularly centred in Xinjiang province.2 The use of forced labour (intimately connected to many international supply chains) as a hallmark feature of the Chinese state’s oppression of its Uyghur peoples requires a ‘business and human rights’ (BHR) lens to responses to the human rights violations in the region.