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Article

16 Nov 2011

Author:
Human Rights Watch

Ending Forced Labor in Vietnam’s Drug Detention Centers - Columbia Sportswear, Vestergaard Frandsen React Swiftly to Evidence of Forced Labor

Forced labor is not treatment, and making a profit is not rehabilitation. Over the last three years, Human Rights Watch has researched conditions for people in drug detention centers in Vietnam. We uncovered strong evidence that these facilities force detainees to produce goods for local Vietnamese companies, some of which supply multinational companies, under dangerous and degrading conditions for little or no compensation. Since its September release, our reporton the drug detention centers in southern Vietnam has already compelled two major multinational companies to cut ties with these facilities—...Columbia Sportswear Co. and Swiss-based Verstergaard Frandsen, which specializes in making mosquito nets and other disease-control products...[We] continue to push for the closure of these abusive facilities, and our advocacy continues to gain momentum with other companies whose supply chains involve forced labor, with the Vietnamese government, and with donor nations that fund these centers.