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Forced labor in China: how Europeans give themselves a clear conscience

2020-12-30T20:07:33.695Z


DECRYPTION - The European Commission presents as a concession torn off at the last minute China's commitment to "make lasting and continuous efforts" to "ratify the conventions" of the International Labor Organization.


The French government had made it one of the conditions for signing the investment treaty between China and Europe.

In no case would France agree to support him if Beijing did not ratify the International Labor Organization (ILO) convention prohibiting forced labor.

The French opposition followed a series of revelations about the conditions of detention of around one million Uighurs in internment camps in Xinjiang province, some of whom are forced into the cotton industry.

China denies the existence of coercive internment camps as much as it does of forced labor on its territory.

Moreover, welcoming the agreement on Wednesday, the Chinese Minister of Commerce said that

"China attaches great importance to the protection of workers' rights"

and that

"the law clearly prohibits forced labor".

Beijing prefers the term re-education camps, defined as

"vocational training centers specific to

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Source: lefigaro

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