Mar 4: Eleonora Mongelli: Made in Slavery

A new podcast by Eleonora Mongelli on Speaker

Eleonora Mongelli: Made in Slavery

Made in Slavery is a four-episode podcast that explores the intricate mechanisms used by global corporations that exploit workers in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

The podcast highlights the complicity of well-known international brands in practices of outright slavery, and discusses how such brands involved, directly or indirectly, strengthen their economic power and market presence thanks to the profits derived from the use of the Uyghur forced labour.

Concentration camps in China for the Uyghur population- Source: BBC

Additionally, it addresses the need for effective legislation, able to regulate corporate responsibility for human rights when operating abroad.

As the podcast argues, what is needed is precisely a legislation preventing companies from becoming complicit in abuses that, as in the case of Xinjiang, can become crimes against humanity.

This undated handout image released by The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation on May 24, 2022, shows detainees guarded by police as they stand in line apparently reciting or singing at the Tekes County Detention Center in the Xinjiang Region of western China. (Photo:AFP)

The podcast, written by Eleonora Mongelli, human rights expert and Vice President of the Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU), was first released in Italian in March of 2021. It is now available in an English and updated version made in partnership with FIDU, International Republican Institute (IRI), and Solent University (UK).

Editing and mixing by Guido Andreani
Original music by Vincenzo Vitulli
Voiceover by Katie Leeming

Episodes

• Episode 1 - From prisoners to slaves

• Episode 2 - Uyghurs for sale

• Episode 3 - The forbidden inspection

• Episode 4 - For transparency and accountability

The Uyghurs are the largest minority ethnic group in China's north-western province of Xinjiang- Getty Images