{"id":283709,"date":"2021-08-22T17:13:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T17:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/aug\/22\/labour-says-ppe-contracts-must-not-go-to-xinjiang-firms-that-use-forced-workers"},"modified":"2021-08-22T17:13:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T17:13:07","slug":"labour-says-ppe-contracts-must-not-go-to-xinjiang-firms-that-use-forced-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/22\/labour-says-ppe-contracts-must-not-go-to-xinjiang-firms-that-use-forced-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour says PPE contracts must not go to Xinjiang firms that use forced workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Emily Thornberry appeals to Sajid Javid to tackle issue of forced labour in Chinese province<\/p><p>Labour has written to the health secretary, Sajid Javid, urging him to ensure a new \u00a35bn contract for NHS protective equipment including gowns and masks is not awarded to companies implicated in forced labour in China\u2019s Xinjiang region.<\/p><p>Following up earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/28\/revealed-6bn-nhs-glove-contract-shows-rocketing-cost-of-ppe\">concerns<\/a> about medical gloves for the NHS being produced in Malaysia, where there have been consistent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/mar\/30\/us-bars-rubber-gloves-malaysian-firm-top-glove-evidence-forced-labour\">reports of forced labour<\/a> in factories, Emily Thornberry called for an urgent response.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/aug\/22\/labour-says-ppe-contracts-must-not-go-to-xinjiang-firms-that-use-forced-workers\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/aug\/22\/labour-says-ppe-contracts-must-not-go-to-xinjiang-firms-that-use-forced-workers\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Emily Thornberry appeals to Sajid Javid to tackle issue of forced labour in Chinese provinceLabour has written to the health secretary, Sajid Javid, urging him to ensure a new \u00a35bn contract for NHS protective equipment including gowns and ma&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,190,338,34098,1318,6,22662,906,2094,14,30713,1314,1641,1499,1310,1324],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283767,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283709\/revisions\/283767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}