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NEW: If you’ve been to your local pharmacy lately, there’s a chance that something you bought was produced with active ingredients that can be traced to #XUAR — and that it was manufactured using #Uyghur #forcedlabor. In Side Effects, we look at the human rights implications of those global pharmaceutical supply chain ties to the region. #China is the largest active pharmaceutical ingredient producer — and the second-largest pharmaceutical market — in the world. And many of the companies responsible for creating and maintaining that market rely on manufacturing bases in XUAR, a hotspot for human rights abuses and a key hub for several of China’s largest pharmaceutical companies (like Sinopharm, Xinjiang Dejuan Bioengineering, and Xinjiang Nuziline Bio-Pharmaceutical). In fact, 76 different pharmaceutical products exported from China are *only* produced in XUAR, including some over-the-counter pain relievers. For global supply chains, this means clear risk of exposure to forced labor. Still, several key global bodies continue to register and source from these XUAR-linked companies — including the FDA and USAID, as well as Japan’s Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency. As the global community continues to coalesce around forced labor legislation, it’s our hope that policymakers and private-sector actors alike can use the insights found in this report to bolster sanctions, derisk supply chains, and improve due diligence systems. Read ?? https://lnkd.in/e5PdZcDf

ICYMI: Last Friday, the US added 29 new companies to the #UFLPA Entity List for their reliance on forced labor — including several entities that we’ve identified in past analysis. Further, this announcement also included a technical correction to the name of one particular entity (Xinjiang East Hope Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd.) that we first flagged in our 2023 Fractured Veins investigation. More ??

So glad we were able to attend and support this FFA training as a member of the Joint Analytical Cell! We can’t wait to see how this initiative grows and scales in the future.

Big thanks to the Global Investigative Journalism Network for featuring us in their latest piece on the growing impact of data journalism in Africa! We're proud to partner with Data Cameroon (and other regional orgs) to support critical investigative reporting. Read ??

Proud to have provided trade data and additional analysis for this BBC News probe into UK-made equipment sold to Russian defense companies — and the Instagram model at the heart of this tech transfer. Read ??

ICYMI: We're still accepting applications for our #Communications Associate position on a rolling basis! If you're comfortable synthesizing complex ideas for a broad audience and care about global security issues, this might be the #job for you. Apply ??

In September, Danwatch used our Unearthed report to track equipment shipped from Maersk to a #Wagner-owned mining company in #Sudan. Now, an extension of that probe suggests that shipment may have violated Western sanctions. Read ??

We’re proud to have supported Data Cameroon in this probe into how, despite more than 310 billion CFA francs invested in the fight against malaria across #CEMAC, several states continue to seriously struggle to fight the spread of the disease. Read ??

?? C4ADS #job alert! ?? Are you good with words? Do you care about global peace and security? We're #hiring a #Communications Associate to support on email marketing, social media management, and more. Learn more and apply today! ??

CRDF Global partnered with C4ADS and AmCham Tunisia on a sanctions compliance workshop to aid aviation and maritime industry stakeholders in navigating complex Russia sanctions risks on November 5, 2024 in Tunis, Tunisia. The workshop was an opportunity for legal experts and the compliance community in Tunis to share challenges and tips for conducting due diligence on clients who are part of complex supply chains. The agenda included sessions on foundations of U.S. sanctions frameworks which prevent entities linked to the Russian defense sector access to resources required to sustain its warfare capabilities in Ukraine. Experts offered practical guidance on how secondary sanctions were applied to Tunisian entities, and the latest updates on sanctioned Tunisian companies. The workshop was led by Amanda S. and Gianna Compagno of C4ADS; was organized by Marta Kosmyna from CRDF Global; and included speakers from the U.S. Department of State's Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction and the U.S. Embassy Tunis This programing built on previous trainings to strengthen compliance within the maritime sector of Tunisia in May of 2024 and contributed to CRDF Global’s ongoing work to build resilience amongst the business community working in sensitive sectors to secure international trade networks from exploitation by sanctioned actors through counter-proliferation trainings, specialized briefings, and timely research. For more information on this event, please visit: https://hubs.ly/Q02Y9jHS0 To sign up for CRDF Global’s counter-proliferation finance newsletter, please visit https://hubs.ly/Q02Y9mKm0