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Nonilex

US #SupremeCourt to review GEO Group's loss in immigrant detainee *#ForcedLabor* [#slavery] case

#SCOTUS on June 2 agreed to decide if #GEOGroup can quickly appeal a judge's ruling denying the #PrivatePrison operator #government #IMMUNITY in a class action claiming #immigrant detainees were forced to work & paid $1 a day.

#immigration #law #CivilRights #HumanRights #exploitation #PenalLabor #PrisonLabor
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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

from blatant #HumanRights violations to #ChemicalExposure, there are still many who are apathetic toward these truths,” Roccanova said. “The continued #sales growth of #FastFashion giants like #Shein and #Temu are evidence of this.”

The “ad” takes aim at this #ConsumerApathy when the voiceover asks the increasingly sketched-out shoppers—who begin to catch onto the themes of #ForcedLabor and #quality issues—whether they’d stop buying from “Xiemu”

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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

on millions of shipments a day… simply by shipping something in a small box through the international mail,” Glas said. “The de minimis provision hurts the U.S. #TextileIndustry and our regional trade partners—devastating businesses that play by the rules and undermining all trade enforcement of #ForcedLabor and other #abuses,” she added.

“Don’t worry about it!” is the Xiemu ad’s refrain. But according to Glas, “We need to worry about it, and we need to close this #loophole now.”

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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

related to certain Chinese e-commerce companies that have been linked to #ForcedLabor in their supply chains,” said National Council of Textile Organizations (#NCTO) president and CEO #KimGlas.

NCTO, along with other industry trade groups and lawmakers, has long lobbied against fast-fashion players’ unbridled access to U.S. shoppers. They’ve “aggressively” employed the de minimis trade provision “to ship undervalued and largely uninspected products to the U.S. market,” Glas said.

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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

as well as excessive #emissions, #IndigenousLand grabs and #ForcedLabor.

The majority #shareholders of JBS even pled guilty to foreign #bribery charges in the U.S. in 2020. And this summer, it was the subject of a Senate hearing on Amazon deforestation, in which Senators discussed JBS' practice of — get this — cattle #laundering, or concealing a cow's origin to cover up its connections to #deforestation and #RightsAbuses.

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Lululemon: If Canada wants to get serious about forced labor, disclosure laws won’t do
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* Canadian gov. passed Fighting Against Forced Labour & Child Labour in Supply Chains Act (laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/ac) "Canada’s Modern Slavery Act"
* addresses forced labor (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_l) | child labor (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_la) in supply chains
* requires companies to disclose efforts eliminating labor abuse f. supply chains
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The ConversationLearning from Lululemon: If Canada wants to get serious about forced labour, disclosure laws won’t doA new study suggests disclosure laws to prevent forced labour in the clothing industry are a form of window dressing designed to ease the conscience of consumers rather than protecting workers.
#Lululemon#capitalism#ForcedLabor
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Nithin Coca నితిన్

This was probably the most difficult article I've ever done - supported by a #PulitzerCenter grant, and took 5-6 months and a lot of data research and fact-checking. Collaborated with a local journalist, Tonggo Simangunsong, from Medan.

It links #humanrights abuses in both #Indonesia and #China, including #Uyghur #ForcedLabor to Sumatran deforestation, and global garment supply chains.

web.archive.org/web/2023041400

Al Jazeera · How China’s Xinjiang fuels Indonesia’s deforestation scourgeBy Nithin Coca
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