Volkswagen announced that an independent audit of its joint venture site in Xinjiang, China, conducted by the German firm Loening Human Rights & Responsible Business GmbH, found no signs of forced labor. This outcome emerges amidst heightened global concern over alleged human rights abuses in th...
Loening, with his background as a human rights commissioner and a federal parliament member for Germany's Free Democrat party, brought significant credibility to the investigation. His comparison of the living situation of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang to the apartheid regime in South Africa, made in a 2021 Deutschlandfunk interview, highlights his awareness of the gravity of human rights issues.
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