On Wednesday, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) voted to ratify two conventions on forced labor. The conventions were established by the International Labor Organization (ILO), which in February...
The Supreme People’s Court has ruled the much-reviled “996” 72-hour work week illegal. The January death of a 22-year-old Pinduoduo employee after working a late shift focused public anger on 996 overtime culture,...
Censors have scrubbed a father’s anguished “plea for help,” written in the aftermath of his son’s suicide, from Chinese social media. His son, a 17-year-old Hubei high school student, committed suicide after being forced to work...
Amid the ongoing pandemic, the services provided by food delivery platforms have become a lifeline for many shut-in or socially distanced consumers, in China and elsewhere. Despite the newfound essentiality of delivery drivers...
The sudden death of a 22-year-old female employee of e-commerce giant Pinduoduo has revived online furor about labor rights in the tech industry, and has prompted a government probe into the e-commerce giant. The employee...
A new Buzzfeed News investigation shows that Xinjiang authorities have constructed massive factory facilities alongside internment camps where over one million ethnic minorities, primarily Uyghurs and Kazakhs, have been...
A Financial Times investigation has found that Apple supplier Pegatron illegally pressed students into assembling iPhone 12s at a factory outside of Shanghai. Apple blamed its contractor for coercing the students to violate...
Following widespread reports of forced labor by Uyghurs in Xinjiang and other parts of China, a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers submitted a bill to restrict imports from Xinjiang. Austin Ramzy of The New York Times reports:...
At The Guardian, Gethin Chamberlain reports that documents leaked to U.S.-based China Labor Watch...
Amid an ongoing crackdown on labor rights activism in China, several students from Peking...
Matters, a blockchain-powered media started by Initium editor Zhang Jieping, has published a...
Three social workers were detained last week in police raids as China’s crackdown on labor...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
In recent months, Chinese tech workers have used the Microsoft-owned codesharing platform GitHub...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Chinese programmers are coming together through a viral Github campaign to protest against...
Last week, it was reported that labor activist Wei Zhili was detained in Guangdong and reportedly...
In the latest development in a continuing crackdown on civil society activism and workers rights...
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