
Patricia Carrier
@pcarrier26
Former Project Manager, Modern Slavery Registry @BHRRC. Views my own
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13-03-2011 19:35:29
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❗️ Important statement by OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives @ILO UN Human Rights welcoming the EU Commission's #CorporateSustainability proposal, yet raising concerns over: ❌a box-ticking approach ❌overreliance on contractual assurances ❌limits to value chain scope ❌weak stakeholder consultation rules




Post-pandemic, inequalities in our garment #SupplyChains need urgent reform say Focus on the Global South Asia Floor Wage Alliance - this includes more fairly redistributed profits & fashion brand liability for abuses 'Business as usual' will not cut it. #BizHumanRights bit.ly/3xs6aP2



BREAKING NEWS: 38 civil society organizations & advocates, including AFL-CIO ✊, Human Rights Watch, ICAR, Greenpeace USA, ATEST have sent a letter to CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus calling on the U.S. Gov't to reject a business-led bid to hide import data from the public. Read: bit.ly/3TiuaxS


🚨 TODAY 🚨 The WUC and GLAN | Global Legal Action Network is outside the High Court in London challenging the UK Government’s failure to investigate and stop the imports of #UyghurForcedLabour cotton. Follow us for more!


Follow this thread for live updates from court! Proceedings well underway in the High Court. The Claimant World Uyghur Congress’s specialist crime King’s Counsel is taking the judge through offences under the Proceeds of Crime Act and their application to cotton made w forced labour

BREAKING ➡️➡️➡️ CBP 🇺🇸 detains goods w/ potential links to Uyghur forced labor—based on research by Uyghur Human Rights Project. Shipments of red dates produced by the Bingtuan (XPCC) originating in the Uyghur region were stopped in New Jersey & California. Read: cbp.gov/frontline/impl…


🧵 Explainer on Volkswagen's exposure to forced labor 👇🏽 Sheffield Hallam University SHU HKC LawCrim NomoGaia


The Volkswagen shareholder meeting today seems to have ended without VW answering for its involvement in the Uyghur Region.

⚡️Homeland Security raided a Jinko Solar factory and sales office last week in Florida & California. Short 🧵on why that's important 👇🏽 reuters.com/world/us/us-co…



"All of Löning’s 20 employees, except the founder Markus Löning and another executive, have asked to make it clear they were not backing the conclusions of the audit." Damning response from staff of Löning, which carried out Volkswagen audit in Uyghur region. ft.com/content/46b37a…



