Labor’s Lee: Businesses cannot ‘responsibly’ operate in Xinjiang region

Businesses cannot “responsibly” operate or source from the Xinjiang province of China – the reported home of widespread forced labor of the Uyghur minority – due in large part to the impossibility of conducting reliable audits in the region under conditions maintained by the Chinese government to restrict the flow of vital information, Deputy Under Secretary of Labor for International Affairs Thea Lee said on Tuesday. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevent Act, which was signed into law in December 2021,...