NEW YORK - United Nations human rights experts are urging companies to closely scrutinise their supply chains following concerns over the alleged detention and forced labour of Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang region of China.
Independent UN experts said they had received information linking more than 150 companies - both Chinese and overseas-based - with serious allegations of human rights abuses against Uyghur workers.
Many businesses and factories implicated in the abusive practices were reportedly operating as part of the supply chains of various well-known global brands, they added.
