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Ugandan High Court Judge Lydia Mugambe, who sits on a United Nations criminal tribunal, made her first appearance in British court on Thursday to face charges of tricking a young Ugandan woman into serving as her slave while she studied at Oxford.

Chinese fast-fashion giant Shein is reportedly preparing to slash its valuation for a prospective listing on the London stock market by $50 billion, losing almost a quarter of its value after President Donald Trump closed the “de minimis” loophole that allows small import shipments to evade duties and customs inspections.

President Donald Trump’s executive order imposing tariffs on China included a provision that eliminates the controversial “de minimis” exemption for small import shipments.

An Indian American doctor who reportedly kept two illegal aliens as servants in her home on low pay — somewhere between $3,000 and $7,200 per year — has permanently lost her medical license.

Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker BYD is under investigation for using “irregular visas” to ship workers to Brazil, where they were kept in what Brazilian inspectors described as “slavery-like conditions.”

Chinese state media is celebrating automaker BYD surpassing Elon Musk’s Tesla as the world’s top producer of electric vehicles (EVs), while downplaying reports that BYD has been keeping its Brazilian workforce in conditions “analogous to slavery.”

Brazil shut down construction of a BYD factory when 163 Chinese nationals were found working in “conditions analogous to slavery.”

A number of international media reports have exposed an operation called “Alabuga Start” that lures young African women to work at a Russian drone factory and then effectively enslaves them – but African governments have done little to protect their citizens from exploitation.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) added 29 more Chinese entities to its list of exporters banned for suspected use of slavery, including companies that manufacture food and metals, from tomato paste to iron ore.

Standard & Poor’s CRISIL analytics firm published a report on Wednesday that predicted India will become a major exporter of solar energy equipment by 2029.

Outgoing Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is expediting the hiring of 5,223 Cuban slave doctors.

China signed a deal to import $25 million in Afghan cotton, providing income to the Taliban and muddying China’s cotton supply lines.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday banned three more Chinese companies from importing goods tainted by Uyghur forced labor.

Public Eye, a human rights advocacy group based in Switzerland, blasted Chinese fashion giant Shein for demanding excessive overtime from its workers in a 2021 report.

The Daily Caller on Thursday published a report that found Chinese military companies have spent over $24 million on lobbying the U.S. government since 2020. 

Justice for All, a human rights group based in Chicago, called for a boycott of Chinese online retail giant Shein to coincide with the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr on Wednesday.

The Gunma Prefecture of Japan last week removed a memorial to Korean victims of Imperial Japan’s forced labor policy during World War II.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping will attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco next week and is scheduled to be the guest of honor at a dinner attended by hundreds of U.S. executives and business leaders.

The Congressional-Executive Commission on China heard testimony that Chinese seafood exports to the U.S. are tainted by forced labor.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a ban on Tuesday on imports from three Chinese companies selling industrial chemicals, wool, and yarn on the grounds that they profited from Beijing’s state-sponsored slave trade of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other members of Turkic ethnic groups.

The United Nations on Tuesday issued a report on the brutal treatment of people forced to work in online and telephone scam centers across Southeast Asia.

Canada is investigating its branches of Walmart, Hugo Boss, and Diesel for the alleged use of Uyghur slavery in their supply chains.

The first Republican primary debate included exchanges with Haley and Burgum that highlight the perils of paying China for “green energy.”

A report published by the Business & Human Rights Resource Center (BHRRC) on Wednesday accused Chinese companies of more than a hundred human rights and environmental abuses at the mines where China produces much of the world’s supply of “green energy” minerals, such as lithium, cobalt, copper, and various rare earths.

The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party on Thursday warned there is an “extremely high risk” of encountering products made by slaves when shopping with two popular Chinese fast-fashion brands: Shein and Temu.

A group of activists demonstrating against China’s use of Uyghur Muslims as slaves crashed German automaker Volkswagen’s shareholder meeting in Berlin on Wednesday.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio met in Seoul over the weekend for their second summit in two months.

During portions of interviews aired on Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Last Call,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Trade Executive Assistant Commissioner Annmarie Highsmith and Assistant Port Director for the Port of New York/Newark Edward Fox said that determining

The 52nd session of the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) convened this week — with 70 percent of the membership consisting of autocracies, dictatorships, and other non-democratic nations.

A group of Cuban activists and health professionals criticized the communist Castro regime’s plans to send an additional 119 Cuban slave doctors to Mexico, at a time when the nation’s precarious and understaffed healthcare system faces its worst crisis in more than six decades of communist rule.

A report published by Hong Kong Watch and Professor Laura T. Murphy of the University of Sheffield Hallam on Monday found that dozens of American, British, and Canadian state pension funds are passively invested in Chinese companies that face credible accusations of enslaving Uyghur Muslims.

Chinese customs data reviewed by the South China Morning Post (SCMP) on Tuesday showed exports from the Xinjiang region to the United States nearly tripled year-on-year in September 2022, despite tougher scrutiny for forced labor imposed by the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA).

Qatar’s preparations to host the FIFA World Cup beginning on November 20 are drawing complaints from labor and human rights activists, who say the authoritarian Islamist government is abusing immigrant workers and arbitrarily detaining homosexuals.

The Associated Press (AP) reported Tuesday that a coalition of major U.S. companies, including Walmart and General Motors, is quietly lobbying the government to make certain import data confidential — a change that would make it much more difficult for journalists and human rights activists to link imported goods to abusive labor practices abroad, including forced labor in China’s Xinjiang province and child labor in Africa.

Two Texas Republicans, Reps. August Pfluger and Michael McCaul, are seeking answers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) about how the agency screens critical minerals imported from China.