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The brand’s US parent company has disputed Canadian jurisdiction over the matter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Canada’s corporate watchdog on Tuesday launched an investigation of Ralph Lauren’s Canadian unit over allegations the fashion giant used forced labor from China’s Uyghur minority.<\/p>\n

The announcement follows similar probes of Nike Canada and Canadian mining firm Dynasty Gold, which the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) began last month.<\/p>\n

A coalition of 28 civil society organizations last year filed a complaint with the watchdog alleging “Ralph Lauren Canada has supply relationships with Chinese companies that use or benefit from the use of Uyghur forced labour.”<\/p>\n

“I have decided that the Ralph Lauren complaint warrants an investigation,” ombudsperson Sheri Meyerhoffer said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The brand’s US parent company, she noted, has disputed Canadian jurisdiction over the matter, arguing that its subsidiary “is not responsible for decision-making” and all of its operations are overseen by the company’s US headquarters.<\/p>\n

The Ottawa-based Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project welcomed the investigation in a statement.<\/p>\n

“There is credible evidence that Ralph Lauren is linked to numerous Chinese companies that use Uyghur forced labour in their supply chains,” it said.<\/p>\n

Rights groups say more than one million Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities have been held in re-education camps in China’s western Xinjiang region, with a slew of abuses that include forced labor.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers in Western nations, including Canada, have called the crackdown in Xinjiang a genocide, and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has referred to the treatment of Uyghurs as crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n

Beijing denies the accusations, describing the facilities as vocational centers designed to curb extremism.<\/p>\n

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