MEPs urged to ban goods made in Chinese slave labour camps

A CAMPAIGN to ban products produced in Chinese forced labour camps has been launched in the European Parliament.

Irish MEP Simon Coveney, the human rights spokesperson for the Parliament’s largest group, the EPP, said the existence of the camps, known as Laogai, is not well known.

But up to five million people are confined in them working as slave labour producing everything from artificial flowers and rubber boots to machine parts and food.