The CIS Ombudsman’s webinar will be an information sharing and gathering session. Participants may electronically submit questions and comments during the webinar. Keep Reading
The agency identified the following forced labor indicators through the course of its investigation: deception, withholding of wages, and debt bondage. Keep Reading
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel at all U.S. ports of entry will detain shipments containing cotton and cotton products originating from the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC). Keep Reading
The products subject to the WROs are produced with state-sponsored forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, where the Chinese government is engaged in systemic human rights abuses against the Uyghur people and other ethnic and religious minorities. Keep Reading
Effective August 18 at all U.S. ports of entry, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will detain seafood harvested by the Da Wang, a Vanuatu-flagged, Taiwan-owned distant water fishing vessel. Keep Reading
In March 2018, CBP formally established its Forced Labor Division in the Office of Trade, but told GAO that they "do not have the resources to gather firsthand information on labor practices." Keep Reading
The Ministry of Social Policy and the National Police of Ukraine revealed the details of a shocking case of mass trafficking during a press conference in the capital Kyiv on October 18. Keep Reading
Under U.S. law, it is illegal to import goods into the U.S that are made wholly or in part by forced labor, which includes convict labor, indentured labor. Keep Reading
HSI’s forced labor programs coordinate and initiate criminal investigations into U.S.-bound supply chains whose goods are made wholly or in part by means of forced labor. Keep Reading