As implementation of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) continues, last week there were two new developments: Two Republican members of Congress pushed back against reported proposals for UFLPA enforcement that they considered would "weaken the UFLPA"; and an energy producer reported that it was not having

In a hearing before Britain’s High Court this week, a Uyghur rights group argued that the British government has failed to investigate the importation of cotton produced with forced labor in Xinjiang, in violation of UK law.

At a European Parliament hearing today, there was a discussion of the European Commission's proposed regulation on forced labor, involving a representative of the Commission, several experts, and members of Parliament.

A group of Republican members of Congress is asking U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Treasury for answers about how red dates from Xinjiang are being sold in the U.S. market despite concerns about labor rights abuses in Xinjiang.

The U.S. Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which took effect earlier in the summer, imposes legal obligations that some experts have described as "very difficult, sometimes near impossible" to satisfy. Serving as a near embargo on imports of goods sourced from Xinjiang, the law not only affects

A U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) notice that was published today sets out a list of entities subject to a rebuttable presumption that the goods they mine, produce, or manufacture are made with forced labor. Unless the presumption is rebutted, the goods would be prohibited from importation into