cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/45649428
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Ultra cheap e-commerce platforms Temu and fast fashion brand Shein are selling products made from Chinese cotton despite the high risk of links to slavery.
More than 80 per cent of Chinese cotton is produced in the Xinjiang province where an estimated more than 800,000 Uighurs are enslaved.
This masthead has seen multiple examples of cotton products made in China available for sale on Temu and Shein, including clothing and bedding.
Australian Human Rights Institute director Justine Nolan said there was a heightened risk of slavery with any cotton products made in China.
“You just couldn’t say the risk is low when you’ve got over 80 per cent of cotton coming from Xinjiang,” she said. “That’s a high risk.”
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China produces about 20 per cent of the world’s cotton, with about 84 per cent coming from the Xinjiang province. The US banned cotton from the Xinjiang province in 2022 under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.
Ms Nolan said retailers and manufacturers would need to ascertain whether the cotton was produced in China or was sourced from a supply chain outside of China.
“The reality of actually finding that out is very difficult,” she said. “There’s a heightened risk for any cotton products coming out of China that they are tainted by forced labour.”
Conversely, Ms Nolan said Australia had a very strong cotton industry. “I would say cotton coming out of Australia is a hell of a lot safer than cotton coming out of China.”
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It’s only a bad thing when it makes the USA look bad, otherwise slavery and genocide is just fine.
-ML
ML doesnt think the labor used to create these items is slave labor. ML generally thinks its hypocritical for one of the few countries to have legal systemic slavery to going around claiming all of its “enemies” use slave labor. ML also likes to note how cultural differences often are exaggerated or reframed to use as nationalistic propaganda.
America puts a lot of effort into trying to convince the rest of the world that China is a horrible country.
ML (on Lemmy) has a singular goal, and everything else comes second: crush the west, especially the people—double for the innocent ones.
I cannot tell when a government is creating a whataboutism through a captured Human Rights group that focuses on protecting the state from being accused of wrongdoing.
- tornavish
Yeah, and? Hasn’t this been know since like. A decade or so? Hasn’t this been like this since it’s founding?
Everyone knows, and so far, nobody able to stop this has cared.
This isn’t news, this is just sad
Remember the building collapse in Bangladesh filled with textile workers that got crushed?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rana_Plaza_collapse
I remember clothing industry executives going on the news tearfully saying they didn’t know about it and will change things.
Uh uh.
Oh I remember that, and I remember right away thinking “buuuuuuuulshit you won’t change anything, you’ll just make sure any news won’t come out as easy next time”
Close, it’s “because”, not “despite.”
Damn. Wait until you hear about iPhones. Lmao
Uh huh, im sure this western colonial state is super worried about human rights abuse…
Is AliExpress no different?
That’s why I only buy electronics on AliExpress.
I would say it is the same according to several other reports, but the Australian institute just didn’t investigate specifially AliExpress in that case I would say.
Oh yes as opposed to the cotton grown by executives and lawyers
Nothing in between lawyers and literal slaves?
I believe everyone would use slaves if there were no moral consequences, hence the demand for humanoid robots.
The filthy rich, having zero morals or empathy, happily use literal slaves in any country they can get away with it, also explaining their obsession with building humanoid robots. Robots which they imply will be affordable for everyone, but which will only ever be available for the filthy rich to have and use, in turn furthering their plan to make literal slaves of all of us.
Lol we’re all slaves, it’s just that this slave labour disrupts amazon’s business
