CECC Hearing on Factories and Fraud in China

Published on April 30, 2024

The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) holds a hearing on “Factories And Fraud In The PRC: How Human Rights Violations Make Reliable Audits Impossible” at 10 a.m. ET on April 30. Witnesses: Panel 1 Thea Lee, Deputy Undersecretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Labor Panel 2 Scott Nova, Executive Director of the Worker Rights Consortium Adrian Zenz, Senior Fellow and Director in China Studies, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Jim Wormington, Senior Researcher and Advocate on Corporate Accountability, Human Rights Watch ...

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