Responding to Egregious Human Rights Abuses

The Human Rights Initiative analyzes and draws attention to situations where widespread human rights abuses are occurring or likely, and strives to propose policy solutions and illuminate comparative lessons learned

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A Global Forced Labor Import Regime Is Emerging—Can It Work?

USTR announced sweeping tariffs across 60 economies to address unfair trade practices related to the importation of forced labor-made goods. This presents significant opportunities for promoting workers' rights as well as potentially dire risks to those same rights.

Critical Questions by Laura T. Murphy — July 31, 2026

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A Global Forced Labor Import Regime Is Emerging—Can It Work?

USTR announced sweeping tariffs across 60 economies to address unfair trade practices related to the importation of forced labor-made goods. This presents significant opportunities for promoting workers' rights as well as potentially dire risks to those same rights.

Critical Questions by Laura T. Murphy — July 31, 2026

Cyber Scamming Goes Global: Sourcing Forced Labor for Fraud Factories

People from over 100 countries have been trafficked to Southeast Asia’s fraud factories. These victims fail to conform to a single profile, so survivors often face insufficient or inappropriate law enforcement responses. 

Critical Questions by Lauren Burke Preputnik, Julia Dickson, Aly Senko, and Andrew Friedman — December 12, 2024

Centering Human Rights in Ukraine's Reconstruction

This virtual event will discuss the HRI's upcoming report, A Human Rights-Centered Approach to Reconstruction in Ukraine, and highlight some of the human rights concerns that have received less public attention in reconstruction plans to date.

Event — June 7, 2024

A Human Rights–Centered Approach to Reconstruction in Ukraine

This report reviews the extent to which human rights and governance concerns have been incorporated into Ukraine reconstruction plans and efforts to date and aims to identify key gaps and issues that merit additional attention going forward.

Report by Scott Busby and Lauren Burke Preputnik — June 5, 2024

What’s Next for the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act?

One year into enforcement of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, the CSIS Human Rights Initiative assesses implementation to date, forthcoming changes in enforcement, and what other steps Congress and the administration may take to address forced labor in the region.

Critical Questions by ​Marti Flacks — June 21, 2023