Chico’s was named in a report from the Helena Kennedy Centre as one of many international brands whose supply chains were linked to cotton sourced from Xinjiang and state-sponsored labour transfers.
It has not responded to the findings.
An investigation into how forced-labor-produced cotton and cotton-based goods from the Uyghur Region wend their way into international supply chains. Based on international trade and customs data, the report concludes that at the same time as Xinjiang cotton has come to be associated with human rights abuses and to be considered high risk for international brands, China's cotton industry has benefited from an export strategy that obscures cotton's origin in the Uyghur Region.