Last week, a UK parliament debate on large solar farms touched on the issue of solar panels made in China with forced labor.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency recently announced that it would block goods from the Li-Ning Sporting Goods company due to their alleged use of North Korean labor.

The new U.S. government appropriations legislation recently agreed on by Congress adds significant funding for implementation of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act passed last year.

As we reported here, on January 24 the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, on behalf of the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (FLETF), sought input from the public on "how best to ensure that goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part with

The Norwegian sovereign wealth fund has decided to divest from a Chinese company due to concerns about labor practices.

A bipartisan group of members of Congress who head up the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) sent a letter to the leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees asking them to increase funding in order to "aggressively" enforce the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.

At a meeting of the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade today, Sabine Weyand, the Director-General at DG Trade of the European Commission, testified on issues related to the European approach to forced labor, with products from the Xinjiang region clearly in the background of the discussion.