UHRP Welcomes Largest-Ever Expansion of UFLPA Entity List

For immediate release

July 31, 2026, 6:30PM EST

Contact: Omer Kanat, +1 (202) 790-1795

The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) welcomes the Department of Homeland Security’s addition of 43 entities to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act entity list. It is the largest single expansion to date, bringing the total number of entities to 187.

The newly listed companies operate across industries including critical minerals, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and electronics, demonstrating the scope of Uyghur forced labor embedded in global supply chains. 

“Uyghurs have long awaited stronger action against companies linked to forced labor,” said UHRP Executive Director Omer Kanat. “We are grateful to U.S. officials for taking action to help ensure that goods made with Uyghur forced labor do not enter American markets. Adding 43 companies to the UFLPA Entity List sends a clear message: companies must not be allowed to profit from forced labor.”

State-imposed forced labor programs targeting Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other groups are widely documented. The Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region has identified Uyghur forced-labor risk in more than 17 industries. Research by Dr. Laura Murphy has documented forced-labor links in the solar, cotton, and automobile industries, and reporting by Adrian Zenz and I-Lin Lin detailed state-led labor-transfer programs in agriculture. China’s labor-transfer programs, masked as “poverty alleviation,” are expanding, according to a 2025 joint investigation by The New York Times, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, and Der Spiegel. Uyghurs and others targeted are unable to refuse participation without risking punishment. 

Previous UHRP reports, Manifest Risk: New “Air Silk Road” Cargo Flights Carry Risk of Uyghur Forced Labor into Europe and Redirected Risk: Uyghur Forced Labor and the Enforcement Gap in Australia and Japan, have highlighted the risk of forced-labor goods entering global supply chains. Today’s action should serve as a signal for other countries to adopt strong enforcement mechanisms like the UFLPA.

UHRP encourages further additions to the entity list as forced-labor connections are exposed and urges importers to take today’s action as a signal to ensure their supply chains are free of Uyghur forced labor.