{"id":133761,"date":"2024-09-17T07:30:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T04:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/uk-should-outlaw-imports-of-goods-made-by-xinjiang-forced-labour-says-senior-lawmaker\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T07:30:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T04:30:05","slug":"uk-should-outlaw-imports-of-goods-made-by-xinjiang-forced-labour-says-senior-lawmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/uk-should-outlaw-imports-of-goods-made-by-xinjiang-forced-labour-says-senior-lawmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"UK should outlaw imports of goods made by Xinjiang forced labour, says senior lawmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133761\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Britain should outlaw imports of products made by forced labour in China&#8217;s Xinjiang region, a senior lawmaker from the ruling Labour party said, while reiterating his call for more scrutiny of fashion retailer Shein&#8217;s possible London listing. Liam Byrne, a former Labour minister who heads parliament&#8217;s influential cross-party Business and Trade Committee, said he wanted to see a British version of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act that the United States introduced in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d like to see the new (Labour) government follow through on the promise made &#8211; but never delivered &#8211; by the Conservatives in the 2022 Queens Speech &#8211; to strengthen the modern slavery act and toughen up requirements on supply chain reporting,&#8221; Byrne said in emailed comments to Reuters. In doing so, the new government would re-establish Britain&#8217;s leadership of trusted trade that&#8217;s free and fair, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Byrne was among several senior UK lawmakers who called for greater scrutiny of China-founded fast fashion retailer Shein and its labour practices after Reuters reported in June that it had started preparations for a potential London listing. His personal priority is to summon Shein executives to appear before the committee he heads, though the full committee is yet to be elected. &#8220;Shein has a zero-tolerance policy for forced labour. &#8220;Visibility across our entire supply chain is of the highest importance to us and we are wholly committed to respecting human rights,&#8221; a spokesperson for the company said when asked to comment on Byrne&#8217;s statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To comply with applicable laws, we not only require that our contract manufacturers only source materials from approved regions but we also verify this independently.&#8221; Prior to its July 4 election win, Labour indicated its support for Shein&#8217;s listing but opposition to the move is building. In July, a campaign backed by British retail consultant and television personality Mary Portas launched an online petition calling on the government to block a London listing. In June, a UK-based human rights group, Stop Uyghur Genocide, launched a legal campaign to block any London initial public offering by Shein.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/uk\/uk-should-outlaw-imports-goods-made-by-xinjiang-forced-labour-says-senior-2024-09-16\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/uk-should-outlaw-imports-of-goods-made-by-xinjiang-forced-labour-says-senior-lawmaker\/\">UK should outlaw imports of goods made by Xinjiang forced labour, says senior lawmaker<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,579,16117],"class_list":["post-133761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-uk","tag-xinjiang-forced-labour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}