List of companies that are said to have profited from Uyghur Camp Labour edit

The following list includes some of the companies that are said to have profited from Uyghur Camp Labour. None of the companies admitted directly being involved, responses vary between claims to be unaware, claims of direct overseer, pledges of strengthening standards of control and verifying origin of products, and cutting incriminated factories from suppliers. Some companies that were asked did not answer.

Company Owned brand(s) Sector Response Note Country
Adidas[1][2] Sportswear Pledge to cut Uyhgur supply from supply chains   GER
Abercrombie & Fitch Clothing   US
Amazon Retail   USA
Apple Electronics No response given[3]   USA
BMW[4] Automobile industry No Uyghur camp work, "We employ employees directly"[5]   GER
Esprit Holdings Clothing   GER
Fila Sportswear   ITA
Fast retailing[6] Clothing "Of course if we find any human rights problems in any of our factories or cotton production, we immediately stop doing business"   GER
Inditex Zara Clothing No response given.   ESP
Lacoste[7] Luxury clothing Pledge to cut Uyghur supply from supply chains   FRA
Marks & Spencer General clothing   UK
Nike Sportswear   US
North Face[8] Clothing No links recognised by the company with any of the companies in Xinjiang.   USA
Puma Sportswear   GER
Ryohin Keikaku Co Ltd (Muji) Diversified company None of the company's products are branded   JPN
Samsung Diversified company No Uyghur work.   ROK
361 Degrees[9] Clothing   CHN

See also edit

Sources edit

  1. ^ "adidas' response". Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  2. ^ "Lacoste and Adidas pledge to cut forced Uighur labor from supply chain". Glossy. 2020-07-07. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  3. ^ "Apple suppliers linked to Uyghur forced labor in new report". www.msn.com. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  4. ^ "BMW's response". Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  5. ^ SPIEGEL, DER. "Diskriminierung von Uiguren in China: Volkswagen verteidigt Fabrik in Xinjiang". www.spiegel.de (in German). Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  6. ^ "Fast Retailing, parent company of Uniqlo, says company is politically neutral but will halt business with human rights violators". Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  7. ^ "Lacoste and Adidas pledge to cut forced Uighur labor from supply chain". Glossy. 2020-07-07. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  8. ^ "North Face/VF Corp's response". Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  9. ^ "Chinese apparel brand 361 Degrees to source Xinjiang materials with China Cotton Industry Alliance". Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Retrieved 2021-05-18.