“China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the vast cotton fields of its western region of Xinjiang … Based on newly discovered online documents, it provides the first clear picture of the potential scale of forced labor in the picking of a crop that accounts for a fifth of the world’s cotton supply and is used widely throughout the global fashion industry.” BBC: China’s Tainted Cotton. The world’s reaction so far? Shirt happens…