UN report says China has expanded forced labour programs in Tibet, East Turkestan

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(TibetanReview.net, Feb14’25) – The United Nations International Labor Organization (ILO) has on Feb 10 said authorities in China are not only using what it calls “vocational skills training and education centers” for forced labor in East Turkestan (Xinjiang) and Tibet, but also to make large-scale transfer of so-called “surplus” rural workers to exploitative state-led labor programs across the country.

The report details how Chinese authorities have intensified efforts to supposedly “investigate and monitor” poverty levels, setting higher targets for cross-provincial labor transfers, while pressuring ethnic smallholder farmers to cede their land to large state-led cooperati...

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