"They have a chair called the
'tiger.' My ankles were shackled, my hands locked to the chair ...
They had thick wooden and rubber batons ... needles to pierce the
skin, pliers for pulling out your nails.”
Mass torture, rape and forced sterilisation --
welcome to life in a Uyghur concentration camp in China.
And Zara is buying cotton produced by inmates in these
state-run factories.
Uyghur activists are pleading with them to stop. So far, Zara has
refused. You could change that.
Zara’s CEO -- Pablo Isla -- wants to be
seen as the ‘nice guy’ of the fashion industry. With your
donation, we’ll take out a scathing ad in a national Spanish
newspaper -- showing his country he’s profiting
hand over fist from one of the worst crimes against humanity of our
time.
We have the designs ready to go, but full page national
ads don’t come cheap -- and with hundreds of thousands of
Uyghurs being churned through these labour camps, every single
second counts:
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We know we can win campaigns like this in the fashion industry
because we’ve done it all before. When tens of
thousands of SumOfUs members called on leading fashion brands to
ensure the safety of Bangladeshi workers -- H&M, Zara and
Benetton all got on board.
This time we have a head start -- H&M already went public
refusing to buy Uyghur camp cotton. But when the government of China
slammed this decision, spineless Zara execs ran for cover, deleting
a statement opposing Uyghur forced labor from its website.
There’s no reason Zara can’t take a stand, just like H&M. If
it did and other brands joined, the government would have no choice
but to back off the bullying and reconsider the horrifying
treatment of Uyghurs.
But Zara is banking on the world ignoring its role in
legitimising Uyghur forced labour and genocide. And CEO Pablo Isla
doesn’t want this shameful secret tarnishing his image.
You can change that. Just $2 will help buy up the ad
space we urgently need to put Zara’s genocide profits on full
display, and point the finger of blame firmly at its ‘good guy’
CEO.
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