Fashion and forced labour in China

Ecotextile Talks

English - July 29, 2020 12:25 - 20 minutes - 47.9 MB
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Journalists from Ecotextile News magazine discuss the situation of forced labour in Xinjiang, China, which supplies 22 per cent of the world’s cotton crop. This newscast asks how much of this crop finds its way into the clothes sold by leading high street brands. Is every retailer somehow tainted with cotton that’s been allegedly been picked or processed using forced labour? And is this situation being weaponised by some US politicians as part of the on-going trade war in the run-up to the US elections?

Why does the industry rely so much on sourcing raw cotton from this region anyway? After all, there are alternatives.