Chinese Firms Linked to Forced Labor Headline U.N. Event

AU.N. summit this week placed Chinese forced labor and other human-rights violations at the top of the agenda — by honoring some of the business executives complicit in enabling such abuses.

At the U.N. Global Compact’s two-day “leaders summit,” the heads of two firms with links to China’s forced-labor abuses in Xinjiang participated in a virtual panel to launch the initiative’s China strategy. Those companies are the Esquel Group, a textile manufacturer whose Xinjiang subsidiary was blacklisted by the U.S. government, and LONGi Green Energy Technology, a solar-panel manufacturer which said U.S. customs officials seized a shipment of its goods over forced-labor concerns last year.

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AU.N. summit this week placed Chinese forced labor and other human-rights violations at the top of the agenda — by honoring some of the business executives complicit in enabling such abuses.

At the U.N. Global Compact’s two-day “leaders summit,” the heads of two firms with links to China’s forced-labor abuses in Xinjiang participated in a virtual panel to launch the initiative’s China strategy. Those companies are the Esquel Group, a textile manufacturer whose Xinjiang subsidiary was blacklisted by the U.S. government, and LONGi Green Energy Technology, a solar-panel manufacturer which said U.S. customs officials seized a shipment of its goods over forced-labor concerns last year.