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Laura Murphy

@lauratmurphy.bsky.social

Today: prof at Sheffield Hallam U, Senior Associate at CSIS; Previously: Policy Advisor at Department of Homeland Security in Biden admin Always: researcher on forced labor

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Laura Murphy@lauratmurphy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

USTR is holding hearings asking if countries are doing enough to stop the import of forced labor made goods. Answer: NO. The real❓is WHY and HOW should governments adopt forced labor import bans. Read my paper @harvard-carr-ryan.bsky.social for answers. www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...

An International Blueprint for Forced Labor Import Bans

This policy brief outlines a global framework for forced labor import bans (FLIBs) as a key tool to address forced labor in international supply chains. Despite legal prohibitions, forced labor persists, distorting markets and harming workers.

hks.harvard.edu

@humanrights.csis.org · 4mo ago

Check out HRI Non-Resident Senior Associate @lauratmurphy.bsky.social 's conversation on the Harvard Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights’ Justice Matters podcast discussing freedom movements, human rights challenges, and sustaining hope amid backlash. Listen here! www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...

Uncovering Forced Labor

Together they discuss: what led Laura to this work,  the role of storytelling in human rights work, the complexity of violence in freedom movements, the terminology and uses of “forced labor” and “modern slavery”, forced labor among the Uyghur population in China, difficulties faced by academics and activists in addressing human rights abuses, and hope amidst the backlash.

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Laura Murphy@lauratmurphy.bsky.social · 9mo ago

“The cost that the researchers on my team face is the possibility that their parents and siblings will go to prison, that they themselves will be in eternal exile,” she says. “And here’s a university that has only 73 Chinese students, saying we might lose our access to the Chinese student market.”

She stood up to China. Now she’s exposing how her university caved in

Emails released to the academic Laura Murphy reveal the full story of how her research into forced labour in China was blocked by Sheffield Hallam

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RSF@handle.invalid · 9mo ago

#China: Today, the Beijing High Court upheld a 7 year prison sentence against prominent journalist Dong Yuyu on trumped-up spying charges. His only "crime" was maintaining contact with foreign diplomats. RSF is appalled by this decision and calls for his immediate release. #FreeDongYuyu

China: prominent journalist Dong Yuyu sentenced to prison on bogus espionage charges

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the release of Dong Yuyu, a prominent Chinese journalist sentenced to seven years in prison on trumped-up accusations of espionage. He is one of 123 journalis...

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Laura Murphy@lauratmurphy.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A university administrator wrote last summer that my team’s research on forced labor in the Uyghur Region of China and student recruitment in China were “untenable bedfellows.” Today on the picket line at Sheffield Hallam University…

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Leigh Day@leigh-day.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Documents show that for nearly two years Sheffield Hallam University complied with a demand from a Chinese Government foreign intelligence service to halt research about human rights abuses in China. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China

Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities

theguardian.com

Andrew Friedman@andrewbfriedman.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Great report by my colleague @lauratmurphy.bsky.social on the importance of what UFLPA has done, what can reasonably be asked of it, and how it might be repeated elsewhere.

CSIS | Center for Strategic & International Studies@csis.org · 11mo ago

As the third anniversary of the passage of the UFLPA approaches, a look at the act shows an enormous impact on trade, as well as on Americans’ confidence that they are not selling or buying goods linked to atrocities committed against the people of Xinjiang. Read more: www.csis.org/analysis/ass...

Maura Elizabeth Cunningham@mauracunningham.bsky.social · 10mo ago

At @thewirechina.bsky.social, @eliotchen.bsky.social talks with @lauratmurphy.bsky.social about her research on supply chains and forced labor in Xinjiang, and how the Entity List can be a collaboration between academics and the US government.

Laura Murphy on Enforcing America’s Ban on Uyghur Forced Labor - The Wire China

The academic talks about why governments need to redouble their efforts to keep products made using forced labor in Xinjiang off store shelves.

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Uyghur Human Rights Project@uhrp.org · 10mo ago

📦 Three years of the UFLPA: @jasminchua.com assesses UFLPA’s record, drawing on @csis.org work by @lauratmurphy.bsky.social + Charlotte Tate, finding the law reshaping supply chains, but warns that weak enforcement and corporate complacency threaten its impact. sourcingjournal.com/topics/labor...

Three Years On, Does the UFLPA Still Make Sense?

Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department said that China does not fully meet the minimum standards for eliminating human trafficking, nor is it making significant efforts to do so.

sourcingjournal.com

Uyghur Human Rights Project@uhrp.org · 10mo ago

"Political will is critical to the continued effectiveness of the UFLPA," @lauratmurphy.bsky.social + Charlotte Tate write for @csis.org. @jasminchua.com covers their views on Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act effectiveness. @sourcingjournal.com.web.brid.gy. sourcingjournal.com/topics/labor...

Three Years On, Does the UFLPA Still Make Sense?

Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department said that China does not fully meet the minimum standards for eliminating human trafficking, nor is it making significant efforts to do so.

sourcingjournal.com

Laura Murphy@lauratmurphy.bsky.social · last yr.

If you’re around LSU on Wednesday, come for a talk I’m giving. I’ll be talking about how we use research to fight forced labor in China and the lessons we’ve learned that can be applied to fighting authoritarianism at home and abroad. April 16, 4Pm 143 Coates Hall, LSU

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Godwin_lives@pamelaclemit.bsky.social · last yr.

'They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.' - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925

Laura Murphy@lauratmurphy.bsky.social · last yr.

Today Loyola University New Orleans Law School *secretly* hosted a talk by Amy Coney Barrett. Students gathered outside to remind her that she is on the Supreme Court to uphold the constitution, not support dictatorship. I was appalled to find that exactly ZERO profs came out to support.

Laura Murphy@lauratmurphy.bsky.social · last yr.

What I did today to fight authoritarianism: My first call out to a university president by name for pre-complying with Trump’s demands instead of standing up. You can do it too!! Write/call your Alma mater, the school you attend or your children attend, the uni down the road, etc.

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Laura Murphy@lauratmurphy.bsky.social · last yr.

What I did today to fight authoritarianism: 1) finished reading Applebaum’s Autocracy, Inc. 2) followed all the steps (except writing an op-ed) in the list of actions to defend the National Endowment for the Humanities listed in the link below.