Supermarkets ‘putting profits above human rights’, MP says
Supermarkets ‘putting profits above human rights’, MP says
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Bu içerikte, İngiltere’deki ürün etiketlemesinin zayıf ve kafa karıştırıcı olduğu belirtilirken, tüketicilere ürün içeriklerinin geldiği ülkeler hakkında daha fazla bilgi verilmesi ve zorla çalıştırılan ürünlerin ithalatının etkili bir şekilde yasaklanması için daha güçlü yasal düzenlemelerin yapılması çağrısı yapıldığı belirtiliyor. BBC’nin Blood on the Shelves araştırmasında, İngiltere ve Alman perakendecilerinde satılan çoğunlukla kendi markaları olan 17 ürünün Çin domatesi içerdiği belirtiliyor. Çin domateslerinin çoğunun Uygur ve diğer büyük ölçüde Müslüman azınlıklar tarafından zorla çalıştırıldığı Xinjiang bölgesinden geldiği vurgulanıyor. Eski İngiliz Muhafazakar Parti lideri Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Champion’ın çağrısını destekleyerek bu tür ürünlere etkili bir yasak getirilmesi gerektiğini belirtiyor. Ticaret ve İş Bakanı Douglas Alexander ise Modern Kölelik Yasası’nı gözden geçirdiklerini ve şirketlerle iletişime geçerek bu endişe verici raporların altında yatan gerçekleri daha net bir şekilde anlamaya çalışacaklarını ifade ediyor. Ayrıca, tüketicileri daha iyi bilgilendirmenin bir yolu olarak etiketleme konusunun ele alındığı belirtiliyor.
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Kaynak: www.bbc.com
In an urgent question in the House of Commons on Monday, Champion described the UK’s product labelling as “weak and confusing”
The chairwoman of the International Development Select Committee also called for consumers to be given more information on which countries the product ingredients come from and stronger legislation to effectively ban the importing of products made with forced labour.
Champion said UK supply chains are “awash with Uighur forced labour products” because human rights due diligence is “optional” for British companies.
“To supermarkets, I say, all of you are complicit in putting profits above human rights and I hope the British public do the right thing and make their mark with their pocket, in their wallet,” she said.
BBC Eye’s Blood on the Shelves investigation found that a total of 17 products – most of them own-brands sold in UK and German retailers – are likely to contain Chinese tomatoes – testing commissioned by the BBC World Service shows.
Most Chinese tomatoes come from the Xinjiang region, where their production is linked to forced labour by Uyghur and other largely Muslim minorities.
China denies it forces people to work in the tomato industry and says workers’ rights are protected by law. It says the UN report is based on “disinformation and lies”.
Also commenting on the BBC Eye investigation was former Conservative party leader, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, who echoed Champion’s call for an effective ban on such products backed by criminal sanctions.
Business and Trade Secretary Douglas Alexander responded to the debated in the House of Commons by saying he was concerned, the government was reviewing the Modern Slavery Act and would “approach the company in question to try to establish more clearly the exact facts that underlie those deeply worrying reports”.
Alexander added “we need to send a clear and unequivocal signal that no company in the United Kingdom that operates under the existing statutory framework should have any forced labour whatsoever in its supply chain”.
Monday’s calls for new legislation comes after the Parliament Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) Baroness Hayman of Ullock said Defra was “looking at labelling as a way to better inform consumers”.
Supermarkets ‘putting profits above human rights’, MP says
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