Human Rights/Civil Liberties

The U.S. has mounted an aggressive crackdown on imports over concerns about Chinese forced labor, but the campaign is an opaque one, with little detailed data on which companies or sectors are being targeted.U.S. Customs and Border…

Canada could require that companies report on their efforts to stop goods made with forced labor from entering their supply chains, adding to momentum among Western governments to tackle the practice.Pending legislation would compel many…

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has barred imports from three companies, including a supplier to Western apparel companies, that the agency says could be using North Korean forced labor. As part of a…

A newly operative U.S. law is imposing major hurdles on the importation of goods from China’s Xinjiang region, the home of China’s Uyghur people and other minority groups. The new law, though criticized by China as being based on “vicious…

U.S. District Judge Mark Walker in Tallahassee on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the “Stop Woke Act” championed by Florida’s Republican governor, Ron…

Companies must take a multipronged approach to stay on the right side of a strict new U.S. law aimed at curbing forced labor in China, compliance experts said, with steps such as sourcing products from other countries and visiting Chinese…

A Microsoft Corp. MSFT -0.37% search engine has made it harder in North America to look up people who are politically sensitive for China, according to a cybersecurity and surveillance…

Countries are taking more steps to compel social-media platforms to shield users from material they deem harmful through standards that could affect Twitter Inc. TWTR -2.11% as…

Jack Dorsey, co-founder and chief executive officer of Twitter Inc., was the subject of a lawsuit brought by former…

If there’s a safe bet about the future of Twitter, TWTR -2.09% it’s that Elon Musk’s changes to the platform will confound prognosticators, fans and critics…