{"id":1041,"date":"2022-03-08T14:52:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T14:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/03\/08\/amazon-is-reportedly-using-chinese-suppliers-with-ties-to-forced-labor\/"},"modified":"2022-03-08T14:52:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T14:52:20","slug":"amazon-is-reportedly-using-chinese-suppliers-with-ties-to-forced-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/03\/08\/amazon-is-reportedly-using-chinese-suppliers-with-ties-to-forced-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon is reportedly using Chinese suppliers with ties to forced labor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/7\/22965654\/amazon-suppliers-forced-labor-china-uyghurs<\/a>
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Amazon is allegedly employing suppliers in China with links to forced labor, according to a report from the Tech Transparency Project<\/a> (TTP), a research group owned by the nonprofit watchdog organization Campaign for Accountability (via NBC News<\/a>). The report accuses Amazon of continuing to work with these suppliers, despite evidence of their association with Uyghur labor camps.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s population of Uyghurs, the country\u2019s Muslim ethnic minority, is largely concentrated in the Xinjiang region of China. Over several years, the group has been subject to a number of human rights abuses within the country, including internment camps, constant surveillance, mass sterilization, and forced labor<\/a>. As the TTP notes, China uses what it calls \u201clabor transfers\u201d to transport Uyghurs from the Xinjiang region to factories throughout China, forcing them into labor programs the TTP says \u201care often coercive and connected to a network of mass internment and reeducation camps.\u201d<\/p>\n

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