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<P><STRONG>Is HUGO BOSS profiting from forced
labor?</STRONG> The luxury brand is tied to suppliers in
a Chinese region where <STRONG>hundreds of thousands of
Uyghurs are forced to work on plantations and cotton
manufactures. </STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>Tell HUGO BOSS to immediately cut Uyghur
forced labo</STRONG><STRONG>r out of its supply
chain.</STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG>Half a million Uyghur forced laborers break their backs
daily on the cotton fields of East Turkestan</STRONG> (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.</P>
<P><STRONG>SumOfUs confronted HUGO BOSS about its involvement in
these human rights violations in East Turkestan</STRONG> -- but the
company refuses to take definitive measures to cut Uyghur forced
labor from its supply chain.</P>
<P><STRONG>The fashion giant depends on its image as an expensive,
luxury brand</STRONG> -- a scandal on forced labor would challenge
this. Together <STRONG>we can publicly force HUGO BOSS to address
the issues and to clean up its supply chain.</STRONG></P>
<P>HUGO BOSS are doing everything to keep the lid on this dirty
secret, <STRONG>let’s make sure everyone knows the company is
enabling repression.</STRONG></P>
<P><A style="COLOR: #00abbd; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"
href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/579456?t=1&akid=94254%2E15424008%2E1CWRdD">Tell
HUGO BOSS to stop profiting from human rights abuses and cut forced
labor out of its supply chain! </A></P>
<P><STRONG>East Turkestan is one of the largest cotton production
and export regions and produces 20% of the world’s cotton.</STRONG>
According to the Australian Policy Institute, BOSS and other global
fashion brands, <STRONG>work with suppliers that employ Uyghur
forced laborers.</STRONG></P>
<P>Our friends at the<STRONG><EM> End Forced Uyghur Labour Coalition
</EM></STRONG>demand that HUGO BOSS signs the call to action and
have identified immediate steps that <STRONG>HUGO BOSS must take to
end labor exploitation</STRONG> in East Turkestan:</P>
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<LI><STRONG>Close collaboration with relevant
organizations</STRONG>, to put an end to the human rights abuses
in East Turkestan within a concrete timeframe
<LI><STRONG>Total transparency along the supply chain</STRONG>,
inclusive of all sub-suppliers that are based in and outside of
East Turkestan
<LI><STRONG>Taking appropriate action</STRONG>, such as the
termination of trade relations to keep HUGO BOSS’ supply chain
free of forced labor </LI></OL>
<P>Can you help them to meet their demands? SumOfUs members have
successfully stood with Uyghurs in the past:<STRONG> 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</STRONG>.
Today, you can get HUGO BOSS to protect the rights of Uyghurs.</P>
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href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/579456?t=2&akid=94254%2E15424008%2E1CWRdD">Tell
HUGO BOSS to exit the region of East Turkestan and to stop allowing
Uyghur forced labor in its supply chain. </A></P><IMG alt=""
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<P>Thanks for all that you do, <BR>Vicky and the team at
SumOfUs</P><BR>
<P><EM><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">More
information:</SPAN></EM></P>
<DIV class=page-link><A
href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/519032?t=13&akid=94254%2E15424008%2E1CWRdD"
rel=noopener target=_blank>Uyghurs for sale</A>, Australian
Strategic Policy Institute, 1 March 2020.</DIV>
<DIV class=page-link><A
href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/579496?t=14&akid=94254%2E15424008%2E1CWRdD"
rel=noopener target=_blank>Chinese celebs, netizens slam 'two-faced'
Hugo Boss over Xinjiang</A>, Reuters, 27 March
2021.</DIV></TD></TR>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=us@sumofus.org href="mailto:us@sumofus.org">Vicky Wyatt, SumOfUs</A>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, September 03, 2021 8:20 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Uyghurs</DIV></DIV>
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