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BCI cuts cotton cord with Xinjiang

26/10/2020

Better Cotton Initiative (BCI), the Geneva-based body that campaigns for increased production and consumption of “more sustainable cotton”, has ceased all field-level activities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), citing “sustained allegations of forced labour and other human rights abuses”.  

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