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This section contains a curated list of useful articles, investigations, books and other reading materials. The list is updated on a weekly basis and suggestions for additions are welcome.
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UK solar could be ‘dumping ground’ for products of Chinese forced labour, ministers warned
An amendment to the energy bill, proposed with cross-party support, would require solar energy companies to prove that their supply chains are free of slave labour.
Confronting the Solar Manufacturing Industry's Human Rights Problem
This new report examines the links between the global solar PV sector and the participation of solar commodity factories in Xinjiang in state-sponsored labor initiatives that target minoritized Muslim groups in Xinjiang.
How Will Tokyo’s Solar Panel Mandate Handle Allegations of Forced Labor in China?
Tokyo’s metropolitan government is requiring new construction to use solar panels, but the industry’s reliance on parts from Xinjiang poses a thorny moral dilemma.
Making Xinjiang Sanctions Work - Solar
This Policy Brief from the Xinjiang Sanctions research project summarises the impact of current measures on solar energy products from Xinjiang and how these can be strengthened through more co-ordinated and targeted policy.
Everybody’s Business: The Xinjiang Goods Entering Global Supply Chains
This analysis of the Xinjiang economy examines specific goods produced in the region that have outsized impact on global supply chains. Organizations involved in the purchase of these agricultural and industrial products are at risk of supporting oppression.
‘The Energy of Freedom’? - Solar Energy, Modern Slavery and the Just Transition
This report explores the link between modern slavery and solar energy. Many of the materials critical to solar panels come from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, where they may be made with state-sponsored forced labour.