Is HUGO BOSS profiting from forced labor? The luxury brand is tied to
suppliers in a Chinese region where hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs are
forced to work on plantations and cotton manufactures. 

Tell HUGO BOSS to immediately cut Uyghur forced labor out of its supply
chain.

[ [link removed] ] Sign the petition 

   
John,

Half a million Uyghur forced laborers break their backs daily on the
cotton fields of East Turkestan (Uyghur autonomous region of Xinjiang,
People’s Republic, China). Far away from their homes and families, they
are exploited as unpaid and cheap labor on state-run plantations and
manufactures, picking and processing cotton for fashion brands like HUGO
BOSS.

SumOfUs confronted HUGO BOSS about its involvement in these human rights
violations in East Turkestan -- but the company refuses to take definitive
measures to cut Uyghur forced labor from its supply chain.

The fashion giant depends on its image as an expensive, luxury brand -- a
scandal on forced labor would challenge this. Together we can publicly
force HUGO BOSS to address the issues and to clean up its supply chain.

HUGO BOSS are doing everything to keep the lid on this dirty secret, let’s
make sure everyone knows the company is enabling repression.

[ [link removed] ]Tell HUGO BOSS to stop profiting from human rights abuses and cut
forced labor out of its supply chain!

East Turkestan is one of the largest cotton production and export regions
and produces 20% of the world’s cotton. According to the Australian Policy
Institute, BOSS and other global fashion brands, work with suppliers that
employ Uyghur forced laborers.

Our friends at the End Forced Uyghur Labour Coalition demand that HUGO
BOSS signs the call to action and have identified immediate steps that
HUGO BOSS must take to end labor exploitation in East Turkestan:

 1. Close collaboration with relevant organizations, to put an end to the
human rights abuses in East Turkestan within a concrete timeframe
 2. Total transparency along the supply chain, inclusive of all
sub-suppliers that are based in and outside of East Turkestan
 3. Taking appropriate action, such as the termination of trade relations
to keep HUGO BOSS’ supply chain free of forced labor

Can you help them to meet their demands? SumOfUs members have successfully
stood with Uyghurs in the past: last year, together, we forced Apple to
take steps to uphold human rights and to protect the freedom of expression
of its users in China. Today, you can get HUGO BOSS to protect the rights
of Uyghurs.

[ [link removed] ]Tell HUGO BOSS to exit the region of East Turkestan and to stop
allowing Uyghur forced labor in its supply chain.



[ [link removed] ] Sign the petition 



Thanks for all that you do,
Vicky and the team at SumOfUs


More information:

[ [link removed] ]Uyghurs for sale, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 1 March 2020.
[ [link removed] ]Chinese celebs, netizens slam 'two-faced' Hugo Boss over
Xinjiang, Reuters, 27 March 2021.

 

 

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