Will you support our legal StraTEGY to ban the import of forced-labour cotton?
Millions of Uyghurs are being detained and forced to produce cotton for our high street stores.
The Chinese detention programme is the largest since World War II. It aims to eradicate the culture of the Uyghurs, a minority group in China. Detainees are subjected to torture, abuse and forced labour. International governments have officially declared this programme to be genocide and crimes against humanity.
The UK and Ireland are currently permitting a flood of imported cheap cotton produced by Uyghur detainees to cross their borders. The entire high street cotton trade is implicated.
Will you stand with Uyghurs and support our legal action to ban the import of forced-labour cotton?
Our success so far
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In the UK we secured a watershed win in our legal fight to stop the import of Uyghur forced labour goods into the UK, a major step towards ridding the high street of all forced labour goods!
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Following a petition to US customs authorities a targeted ban on imports of cotton from the Uyghur region of China was implemented
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We commissioned the first independent legal opinion on whether genocide is being committed by China in Xinjiang which was cited in UK parliamentary vote declaring genocide
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We succeeded in initiating proceedings against the UK authorities for failing to halt the imports of Uyghur produced cotton
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