A parade of witnesses told the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Wednesday that it is all but impossible for U.S. firms to buy goods or services from China’s Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang that are not produced with forced labor. That is because Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities have imposed such a pervasive system of repressive political, economic, social, and religious policies on the mostly Muslim population in the region of northwest China. “It is a practical impossibility for a U.S. corporation to source from the Uyghur region without using forced labor, which means that every corporation that has chosen to stay in the Uyghur region is complicit in the crime of forced labor,” Scott Nova, Executive Director of the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), told the USCIRF during a hearing Wednesday. The WRC is an independent labor monitoring organization with investigators around the world. “If a corporation is …
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