The World Uyghur Congress suspects China is sending goods made with forced labour into Canada as a way to circumvent the United States’ barriers to imports from Xinjiang
Uyghur Canadians are urging Parliament to strengthen proposed legislation so that it bans imports from China’s western Xinjiang region, where Chinese authorities have established mass detention camps and forced Uyghurs and members of other Muslim groups to work in factories and on farms.to imports from Xinjiang. According to Dolkun Isa, president of the World Uyghur Congress, an international advocacy group, this has resulted in China sending goods made with forced labour to Canada, instead.
“Simply put, a law that requires you to report on but not stop the harm you are causing is meaningless. Canada must enact legislation that would require companies to change their behaviour, and not just report on it,” says the letter, which was provided to The Globe and Mail.Specifically, the group wants the legislation to block imports of products made in Xinjiang. And it wants Ottawa to train Canada Border Services Agency officers to identify products made with forced labour.
Mr. Isa said Canada’s was the first parliament in the world to officially condemn China’s repression of Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities and call it a genocide. But he said Ottawa has failed to follow through with effective action. “The government is not doing a good enough job.”forced-labour ban as part of its effort to address human-rights abuses in Xinjiang. Canada’s failure to identify and seize any goods made with forced labour since then stands in stark contrast with the U.S.
Rights groups and media reports say the Chinese government has committed grave human-rights violations against the region’s largely Muslim Uyghur population, as well as other minorities. Forced labour and forced relocation to work in other provinces, China’s critics say, is the latest stage in a government-directed effort to exert control in Xinjiang. Beijing has described the region as being infected with extremism.
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