IT was recently reported that cotton producers in Xinjiang, China were being targeted for boycott by the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) for allegedly using forced labour in their farms.
The BCI is an organisation based in Switzerland and was started by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in 2005. BCI member companies were urged to stop buying cotton from Xinjiang despite contrary advice from its Shanghai representative office.
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