What happens when human rights law becomes trade law? Two years after passage of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, we’re beginning to find out.
Illustration by Hanna Barczyk
Nury Turkel had a renewed sense of urgency as he walked into the Senate offices on a cloudy October day. With his thick, combed back hair, he looked every bit the corporate lawyer he had been for more than a dozen years in Washington, D.C. But recently, he had turned his attention back to a deeply personal cause: advocating for the 11 million Uyghurs living in Xinjiang without basic rights, including his own mother. It was 2019, and Turkel sensed a unique political window opening in Washington.
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