# How your favorite jeans might be fueling a human rights crisis

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- Published: 2021-09-06T09:30:46-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Illustrations by Julia Kuo for Vox. Article by Sofi Thanhauser  Vox – September 3, 2021. Cotton’s connection to forced labor by Uyghurs in Xinjiang ought to have you rethinking fast fashion. In December 2018, I visited a large dyeing facility inside the Shaoxing Industrial Zone, south of the coastal city of Hangzhou, China. Twenty minutes out from the manufacturing hub, I began to smell it: the rotten-egg stench of dye effluent. The Zone, as it’s known, is 100 square kilometers, […] Click here to view original web page at www.vox.com