Ethnic communities
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Briefing paper
Addressing forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: toward a shared agenda
The forced labor of ethnic and religious minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), as part of a broader pattern of severe human rights abuses, is a significant and growing concern that demands the attention of governments and private-sector actors across the world. This brief explores what the XUAR produces, the sectors that are...
Working paper
The Rohingya response in Bangladesh and the Global Compact on Refugees
This report explores how far the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) – adopted by 181 UN Member States, including Bangladesh, in December 2018 – has informed the response to the Rohingya crisis.
Briefing paper
Ethnic inequalities in children and young people’s access to disability-related support
This briefing paper investigates ethnic inequality in two forms of support for disabled children and young people in New Zealand.
Policy report
Uyghurs for sale
China has attracted international condemnation for its network of extrajudicial ‘re-education camps’ in Xinjiang. This report exposes a new phase in China’s social re-engineering campaign targeting minority citizens, revealing new evidence that some factories across China are using forced Uyghur labour under a state-sponsored labour transfer scheme.
Report
Connecting the dots in Xinjiang: forced labor, forced assimilation, and Western supply chains
This paper argues that the potentially widespread use of forced labor in Xinjiang, and its connections to Western supply chains and consumers, creates both a moral imperative for action and an opportunity to use economic leverage to improve the situation in Xinjiang.