American academic Laura Murphy has become known as one of the world’s leading experts on the way goods produced in Xinjiang using forced labor enter global markets, despite U.S. and other countries’ sanctions efforts.
On Monday, the BBC and The Guardian reported that Sheffield Hallam University, the British institution where she is professor of human rights and contemporary slavery, had halted her research on supply chains and forced labor in February this year — a move she says came
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