Thousands of teachers, health workers, and other civil servants have been mobilized to pick cotton across Central Asia, despite official pledges to end forced labor.

Recover™ has signed a multi-year agreement with H&M to support the integration of its recycled cotton fiber, RCotton, for use in H&M’s products. Recover™ has signed a multi-year agreement with H&M to ...

A cotton picker operates in a field in Xayar County of Aksu, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Oct. 21, 2025. The harvest season of cotton has started in Xayar County. (Xinhua/Jia ...

Founded in 1954, SUPIMA is less than 1% of global cotton production out of California, and supportuing the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SIGMA) to regulate water use and preserve resources.

H&M has been removed by major e-commerce and service apps in China after a Communist Party organization barraged it for a statement expressing “deep concern” over allegations of forced labor in ...

Finally, that was the sentiment of farmers and gin operators across Southwest Oklahoma who are finding strong production from ...

BAKER — To most people, Florida's Panhandle is the land of sugar white sandy beaches and the warm water of the Gulf of Mexico. Thirty miles north on State Road 189, it is a sea of fluffy white cotton ...

Big cotton is in the harvest cards, according to USDA’s latest report. Low commodity prices for corn, grain sorghum and soybeans pulled in more cotton acreage in 2017, and the numbers are reflected in ...

H&M, Nike and other big Western apparel brands are facing a boycott in China because of the stand they’ve taken against the alleged use of forced labor to produce cotton in the country’s western ...

"Sustainable" is a term with a plethora of definitions. In the report, H&M makes clear it is working off a "circular" definition — meaning the company aims to produce clothes out of previously used ...

The cotton harvest is underway in Central Asia again, and in due course citizens in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan are being coerced into picking cotton. In the U.S. State Department’s annual Trafficking ...