On this episode, Eritrea Focus chairman Habte Hagos and former BBC World Africa editor, Martin Plaut, discuss the persistence of modern slavery in Eritrea through the government’s National Service and the importance of Freedom United’s campaign calling for foreign businesses and institutions to divest from the country.

On this episode, we explore how the Uyghur forced labor crisis links to the global fashion industry.

Hear from:

- Jewher Ilham, Program Associate at the Worker Rights Consortium and daughter of imprisoned Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti

- Rahima Mahmut, UK project director at our partner organization World Uyghur Congress

- Raphaël Glucksmann MEP, journalist, director, and a prominent voice on the Uyghur crisis in the European Parliament

- Chloe Cranston, Business and Human Rights Manager at our partner organization Anti-Slavery International  

Want to take action?  Sign the petition here: https://www.freedomunited.org/advocat... Write directly to brands: https://www.freedomunited.org/advocat... Read about the coalition https://enduyghurforcedlabour.org

As the 2022 Qatar World Cup draws nearer, systematic labor rights abuses in Qatar are under the spotlight.