The Uighur Crisis: APPG for Ethics and Sustainability in Fashion Evidence Session Minutes

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As Fashion Roundtable seeks evidence for their policy paper on 'Cleaning Up Fashion’, this latest session focused specifically on the Uighur Crisis and the broader issues of labour exploitation, modern slavery, opaque global value chains and the legislative action that the Government and Firms in the UK can take to mitigate suffering in Xinjiang.

This event was co-chaired by Catherine West MP and Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey.

Contributors included:

  • Dr. Kate Ferguson - Co-Executive Director and Head of Research and Policy at Protection Approaches

  • Louisa Greve - Director of Global Advocacy at Uyghur Human Rights Project

  • Christina Hajagos-Clausen - Textile and Garment Industry Director at IndustriALL Global Union

  • Penelope Kyritsis - Director of Strategic Research at Worker Rights Consortium

  • Rahima Mahmut - U.K. Project Director at World Uyghur Congress

You can read the full minutes via the link below.

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