Apple’s Dependence on China in Its Supply Chain: An Investigative Report on Foxconn Zhengzhou
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Brewing Concerns: Labor Practices and Compliance Gaps in Starbucks’ South China Operations
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China Labor Watch Raises Serious Concerns Over Alleged Labor Violations at Foxconn iPhone 17 Factory
China Labor Watch Investigation Reveals Labor Conditions at Foxconn Zhengzhou Raises Labor Rights Concerns in Apple’s iPhone 17 Supply Chain. Report finds over half of workforce are dispatch workers, with other issues include wage withholding, excessive overtime, discrimination, and dispatch workers with student status forced onto night shifts. New York, September 25, 2025 — China Labor Watch (CLW) today released a new investigative report, Apple’s Dependence on China in Its Supply Chain: An Investigation of Foxconn Zhengzhou. During the manufacturing…
How the Responsible Business Alliance Fails Workers: Recurrent Labor Risks in Foxconn Factories and RBA-Member Companies
The Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) claims to set leading standards for onsite compliant audits. Yet, its member companies keep failing to prevent serious labor risks, and the RBA continues to ignore China Labor Watch’s (CLW) request for increased transparency. Since January 2024, CLW and nine other civil society groups have been actively engaging the RBA on the disconnect between their audit findings and the reality on the ground for workers. While we have called on the RBA to introduce transparency…
Unseen Workers: Conditions of Foreign Workers in Serbia
Download Report “I am a poor man, don’t let me get trapped,” a foreign worker in a tire factory in Serbia, told a staff at China Labor Watch (CLW). “Will I get in trouble for speaking to you?” These sentiments are not uncommon amongst foreign workers that CLW has reached out to in Serbia. From July to October 2024, we conducted in-person and online interviews with migrant workers at two Chinese-owned companies – the Zijin Copper Mine and Linglong Tire Factory…
Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Lao People’s Democratic Republic
In September 2024, China Labor Watch submitted a Universal Periodic Review of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic to the United Nations in the 49th Session of the UN Universal Periodic Review cycle. This submission highlights China Labor Watch’s concerns regarding human rights violation and trafficking in persons in the country. Introduction 1. China Labor Watch (CLW) submits the following information regarding Lao People’s Democratic Republic’s (Laos) implementation of the recommendations of its 4th cycle (2024) Universal Periodic Review (UPR). This…
Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of the Kingdom of Cambodia
In October 2023, China Labor Watch submitted a Universal Periodic Review of the Kingdom of Cambodia (herein “Cambodia”) to the United Nations in the 46th Session of the UN Universal Periodic Review cycle. This submission highlights China Labor Watch’s concerns regarding human rights violations, trafficking in persons, and labor rights infringements in the country. Introduction 1. China Labor Watch (CLW) submits the following information regarding Cambodia’s implementation of the recommendations of its third cycle (2017-2022) Universal Periodic Review (UPR). This report…
“Ghost Farms and Coffee Laundering”: labor violations enter Starbucks’ and Nestlé’s Chinese coffee supply chain
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The Hypocrisy of Barbie’s Feminism – Labor Conditions of Working Class Women in a Mattel Factory in China
Download Full Report Executive Summary: The Hypocrisy of Barbie’s Feminism: Labor Conditions of Working Class Women in a Mattel Factory in China In 2023, the Mattel-backed film featuring Barbie dominated the global Box Office, resonating with audiences globally due to its progressive feminist themes. Unsurprisingly, the sale of Barbie dolls boomed shortly after the movie’s release. While Mattel reaps significant financial rewards from Barbie’s cultural prominence, questions arise regarding the increased demand for the toys: where are these toys…
A Siege From Within: On Chinese SOEs’ Operational Structure – Case Papua New Guinea
Download Full Report Executive Summary Since the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, Chinese investment into Papua New Guinea (PNG) has burgeoned. Resulting from China’s deepening economic relations with the island country, a new wave of Chinese migrants to PNG has occurred since 2012-13 and thousands of guest workers now participate in the construction of new harbors, highroads, and residential compounds. Chinese investments in PNG primarily cover the country’s retail, construction and mining sectors, with the majority…
Trapped: the Belt and Road Initiative and its Chinese Workers
Behind the grand rhetoric of the BRI are ordinary workers whose voices are rarely heard and whose rights are routinely and systematically violated.
This report is dedicated to giving these silenced workers a voice.