Latest Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act News & Updates

Washington, July 1 (IANS) A bipartisan group of 14 members of the US House of Representatives has urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to publicly condemn China’s new Ethnic Unity Law, calling it a tool of “forced assimilation, ideological control, and transnational repression” targeting Tibetans, Uyghurs, Southern Mongolians and other ethnic minority communities.The appeal, led by Congressmen Jim McGovern, Chris Smith and Indian-American Congressman Ro Khanna, comes a day before the law takes e…

New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) China’s system of state‑imposed labour transfers in Xinjiang has reached record levels, remains deeply entwined with the country’s crystalline silicon solar industry and arguably circumvented US trade restrictions, a new report has said.The report from US based media house Times Leader argued that 3 million labour transfers of Uyghurs and other ethnic groups occurred in 2025, the highest figure on record and an increase despite the passage of United States federal …

New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) Multinational pharmaceutical giants — with R&D investments and human trials running in China’s Xinjiang region and at Chinese military hospitals — are escaping US regulation that prohibits drug development or clinical testing, according to an article in The Wire, a New York-headquartered global digital magazine.Data put together by The Wire China and WireScreen from ClinicalTrials.gov, a medical trial database maintained by the US National Library of Medicine, …