{"id":9876,"date":"2021-01-18T16:28:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T16:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/18\/forced-labour-clampdown-is-long-overdue"},"modified":"2021-01-18T16:28:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T16:28:52","slug":"forced-labour-clampdown-is-long-overdue-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/18\/forced-labour-clampdown-is-long-overdue-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Forced labour clampdown is long overdue | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John Morrison <\/strong>and <strong>Sam Watson <\/strong>on Dominic Raab\u2019s commitment to fine businesses over modern-day slavery in supply chains<\/p><p>The commitment made by Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, to strengthen businesses\u2019 supply chain requirements under the Modern Slavery Act are welcome, if overdue (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/12\/chinas-treatment-of-uighurs-amounts-to-torture-dominic-raab\" title=\"\">China\u2019s treatment of Uighurs amounts to torture, says Dominic Raab<\/a>, 12 January).<\/p><p>For him to choose the situation facing the Uighurs in China to do so also seems appropriate, but it represents a blunt instrument for the task in hand. Fines for companies that refuse to issue modern slavery statements will increase the number of statements, but not necessarily their quality.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/18\/forced-labour-clampdown-is-long-overdue\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/18\/forced-labour-clampdown-is-long-overdue\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Morrison and Sam Watson on Dominic Raab\u2019s commitment to fine businesses over modern-day slavery in supply chainsThe commitment made by Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, to strengthen businesses\u2019 supply chain requirements under the Modern Slaver&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,923,190,1727,6,1331,14,1338,1323,1324],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9876"}],"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\/1006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9877,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9876\/revisions\/9877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}