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<p>The UK is taking steps to ensure products on sale in the UK do not originate from
sources that use forced labour. The UK is also committed to ending modern slavery
and forced labour by 2030, as unanimously adopted in the UN Global Goals for Sustainable
Development, and jointly launched the ‘Principles to Combat Human Trafficking in Global
Supply Chains’ with the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand at the UN General
Assembly in September 2018.</p><p>Further, the Modern Slavery Act 2015 requires applicable
commercial organisations to publish a modern slavery statement for each financial
year of their organisation. It applies to all commercial organisations which carry
on a business, or part of a business, in the UK, supply goods or services and have
an annual turnover of £36m or more. The modern slavery statement must set out what
steps they have taken during the financial year to ensure that modern slavery is not
taking place in their supply chains and in their own organisation.</p><p>We continue
to have serious concerns about the human rights situation in Xinjiang where there
are credible reports of over a million Uyghurs and other minorities being detained
in so called “re-education camps”, along with widespread surveillance and restrictions
targeted at minorities.</p><p></p>
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