Bought a Car in the Last Five Years? Some of Its Parts Were Likely Made by Uyghur Forced Labor

A new report produced by Sheffield Hallam University’s Helena
Kennedy Centre for International Justice and the independent
nonprofit research organization NomoGaia reveals that the world’s
biggest car brands, including Volkswagen, BMW, Honda, Ford, GM,
Stellantis, Tesla and more, are at high risk of sourcing from
companies linked to forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous
Region of China. The report’s lead author and human rights expert,
Dr. Laura Murphy, outlines how the findings document the
pervasiveness of forced labor not only in the world’s auto supply
chain but also implicate huge swaths of other global industries —
and what the U.S. can do to push back against these human rights
abuses. Image courtesy of the Helena Kennedy Centre for
International Justice at Sheffield Hallam University