SXSW 2025

Threads of Repression: The Global Supply Chain

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More and more people are learning of the fashion industry’s complicity in the ongoing Uyghur genocide. But, they may not learn that numerous other industries, from automobiles and fishing to technology and aluminum, may be implicated in forced labor. Learn from experts in the field how to eliminate forced labor from your home.


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Takeaways

  1. Attendees will learn how they can identify goods and services that are complicit in forced labor and alternatives for them
  2. Attendees will learn how they can lobby for their legislators to ban goods made with forced labor in the US and beyond
  3. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how those in authoritarian regimes are more susceptible to human rights abuses, including forced labor

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Organizer

Claudia Bennett, Legal & Program Officer, Human Rights Foundation


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  • Event: SXSW
  • Format: Panel
  • Track: Government & Civic Engagement
  • Track 2
  • Level: Intermediate


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