Since 2017, over one million Uyghurs and other people from Turkic and Muslim-majority groups in the Uyghur Region of northwest China have been detained by the Chinese government.
Central to this campaign of repression, which represents the largest detention of an ethnic minority since WWII, is a vast system of forced labour. Experts argue that forced labour is now so widespread in the Uyghur Region that all goods produced there should be considered tainted.
Despite the ongoing atrocities in the Uyghur Region, most major fashion brands continue to source cotton and yarn from the region: in fact, roughly one in five cotton garments sold in Europe and North America contain cotton grown there.
We know that brands are more likely to listen when they hear from you directly, rather than just hearing from us.
As major fashion brands, they are implicated in the forced labour system and must set an example for the industry to follow.
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