UK tightens rules on using Uighur- picked cotton

In China, UK firms will face fines who are doing their business for not showing their products thereby they did not link with the forced labour in the Xinjiang region of China.

It was told by Dominic Raab who is the Foreign Secretary that it will be ensured by tracking that there is no presence of the goods at the place of Uighur, who are treated there as minorities.

Firms of UK that are above a certain size should show that they should avoid slavery in the supply chain.  But if they fail to do so, then currently there is no penalty.

For the risks of trading with Xinjiang, there will some new guidelines for the firms and public sectors, where Mr Raab said that there is the possible event for the minorities and for more than a million Uighurs that are held in the forced labour camps.

There is no declaration of details of fine till now. It was told to Reuters by the executive director of the anti slavery organization Freedom United- Joanna Ewart James that an opportunity has been missed by the government to guide a meaningful shift away from the exploitation and forced labour wherever it occurs. She added that provisions reporting is not enough to keep any organization accountable- we need business and for that government should be held responsible for the violations of the rights in their supply chains, and victims should be able to demand redress.

Forced labour

Last week, In Xinjiang region of China, there was a signed onto a call to action on human right abuses by the retailer Marks & spencer. Civil society organizations and the labour union want to end abuses against the Uighur people, so they generate call to action. In Xinjiang, BCI suspended the activities of the retailer Marks & Spencer during the March last year, which leads to no influx of BCI cotton from the regions. Sign on to call to action became more important as to encourage the other organizations to examine their supply chain. Uighurs and other minorities has been forced by China into hard, manual labour in the cotton field of Xinjiang. This will generate a pressure on the retailers of cloth to remove Xinjiang from their supply chains. 40,000 tones of cotton has been used by M & S each year from various sources.