Human Rights Initiative

Traceability is necessary to understand supply chains and address forced labor conditions in Xinjiang. This report explores the need for supply chain traceability, new technological approaches, and measures that can be taken to catalyze the adoption of such systems.

Forced labor in Xinjiang may affect products entering the United States and Europe, and implicates global brands. This brief explores the sectors that may be implicated, the relevant sourcing challenges, and opportunities that exist for collective action.

The Indo-Pacific region is emerging as the epicenter of a new debate over how states should be organized. CSIS convened a dialogue that produced the Sunnylands Principles, a vision for advancing democratic governance and human rights in the region.

China has “reeducated” over one million Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang. Forced labor has become an integral part of this “reeducation”. This report focuses on how forced labor there connects to western supply chains and what actions can improve the situation.