Congress Takes Positive Step to Protect the Uyghur People
In my 25 years on the staff of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) engaging companies on human rights concerns including labor rights and working conditions in global supply chains, I’ve seen serious human rights abuses in many locations: a factory in Guatemala where supervisors were sexually harassing young women workers; a factory in China where workers labored into the night and when they became too tired to work, were taken to a clinic and given glucose intravenously to boost their energy before being sent back to the line; a factory in San Salvador where 350 workers w...