Bought a Car in the Last Five Years? Some of Its Parts Were Likely Made by Uyghur Forced Labor

A new report produced by Sheffield Hallam University’s Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice and the independent nonprofit research organization NomoGaia reveals that the world’s biggest car brands, including Volkswagen, BMW, Honda, Ford, GM, Stellantis, Tesla and more, are at high risk of sourcing from companies linked to forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. The report’s lead author and human rights expert, Dr. Laura Murphy, outlines how the findings document the pervasiveness of forced labor not only in the world’s auto supply chain but also implicate huge swaths of other global industries — and what the U.S. can do to push back against these human rights abuses. Image courtesy of the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice at Sheffield Hallam University