A coalition of over 180 human rights groups have blasted some of the world’s top fashion brands for their complicity in forced labour and other abuses against the Uighur population of north west China.
Top brands including Adidas, Gap, Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger are included in a published list of companies connected to the humanitarian crisis.
Despite the increasingly publicised torture, sterilisation and internment of the Muslim minority group, the coalition assert that one in five cotton products sold globally are the product of forced labour in the Xinjiang region.
Ikea and H&M have annouced they will stop buying cotton from the region, which analysts say is hosting the largest internment of minority groups since World War 2.
In a heated interview with Andrew Marr on the BBC, China’s UK ambassador denied his government’s human rights abuses after being presented with dystopian footage of shackled Uighur prisoners being loaded onto trains.
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