Stop forced labour imports

In 2024, GLAN and World Uyghur Congress won a landmark case at the Court of Appeal which established goods linked to forced labour as the proceeds of crime and therefore cannot be traded legally in the UK.

This World Cotton Day, and more than two years on from the ruling, UK authorities are still not doing enough to ensure that tainted goods, such as cotton products from the Uyghur region of China, which are widely linked to forced labour crimes, do not enter the country.

GLAN and Stop Uyghur Genocide are calling on the government to take immediate …

In 2024, GLAN and World Uyghur Congress won a landmark case at the Court of Appeal which established goods linked to forced labour as the proceeds of crime and therefore cannot be traded legally in the UK.

This World Cotton Day, and more than two years on from the ruling, UK authorities are still not doing enough to ensure that tainted goods, such as cotton products from the Uyghur region of China, which are widely linked to forced labour crimes, do not enter the country.

GLAN and Stop Uyghur Genocide are calling on the government to take immediate steps to ensure businesses are held accountable to the law and the ruling is enforced.

Help us to enforce the ruling by writing to your MP and ask them to raise this in Parliament.

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The UK government and authorities know that goods linked to forced labour are criminal but are not taking action to investigate imports linked to these crimes. Uyghur people, and all those forced into modern day slavery, need the UK to act now.

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Millions of Uyghurs, a Turkic Muslim people living under Chinese rule in the Uyghur Region, are known to have been detained in what has been described as the largest mass internment programme since World War II.

Uyghur people are subjected to torture, abuse, and forced labour, particularly in cotton production, including the use of electric shock batons ‘for failure to meet daily quotas’. These actions are widely recognised as an attempt to eradicate Uyghur culture. In 2021, the House of Commons passed a nonbinding, all-party motion declaring that Uyghur people and other ethnic and religious minorities in East Turkestan are suffering ‘crimes against humanity and genocide’.

In 2024, a ‘watershed’ Court of Appeal ruling established that goods linked to forced labour are criminal property and therefore cannot be traded in the UK. However, UK authorities have done little to ensure suspected forced labour goods are investigated and stopped at the border.

This World Cotton Day, as your constituent, I am asking that you raise my concerns with the government over goods linked to atrocity crimes against Uyghur people ending up in UK shops. It is unconscionable that members of the public are unwittingly supporting forced labour crimes through everyday purchases, while our courts have ruled these products cannot be sold in the UK.

Specifically, I am asking that the government commit the necessary resources to ensure that the National Crime Agency investigates all imports linked to forced labour and that UK businesses have up to date and adequate guidance on the 2024 ruling and due diligence requirements regarding trade with the Uyghur region.

In July 2026, the House of Lords Joint Committee on Human Rights published a report on forced labour in UK supply chains, arguing that the UK had ‘fallen behind comparable countries in its approach to tackling forced labour’ and called for new legislation to address the issue. I would like to know that steps the government has taken to address the recommendations in this report, two years on from the Court of Appeal ruling?

Your representation on this issue is extremely important, thank you for taking action.

Links to sources:
https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/137640/html/
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-lawmakers-declare-china-treatment-of-uyghurs-genocide/
https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/court-of-appeal-ruling-on-forced-labour-profits-a-watershed-for-british-business/5120156.article
https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/forced-labour-in-uk-supply-chains-joint-committee-on-human-rights-report/

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