EU Adopts New Regulation to Curtail Forced Labor

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Workers carry bags as they harvest cotton in a field in Hami in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, September 21, 2016. © 2016 Chinatopix via AP Photo Today, the European Union approved a law forbidding the sale in the EU of products made with forced labor, a decisive step in combatting this abusive practice and holding corporations to account. The Forced Labor Regulation (FLR) will require authorities of all EU states to ban from the EU market any products or components which have been made, in part or whole, with forced labor. It will target…

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