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The Global Green Energy Transition Has an Uyghur Forced Labor Problem, Report Says (investorsforhumanrights.org)

submitted 9 months ago by tardigrada@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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The solar and electric vehicle industries are critical for the world's urgent transition away from fossil fuels. However, both industries source many of their critical inputs from the Uyghur Region, a region where the Chinese government is systematically persecuting the native Uyghur, Turkic, and Muslim-majority peoples, including through state-imposed forced labor.

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[–] tardigrada@beehaw.org 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Forced labor appears to have a broader meaning than slavery as far as I can understand, for example, from the ILO definition or here. But I don't know either.