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
Previously: Policy Advisor at Department of Homeland Security in Biden admin
Always: researcher on forced labor
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…
Today on the picket line at Sheffield Hallam University…
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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…
Today on the picket line at Sheffield Hallam University…
A human-rights researcher on why she pushed back when China bullied her university
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from The Economist
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from The Economist
A human-rights researcher on why she pushed back when China bullied her university
Democratic governments must resist authoritarian states trying to co-opt their institutions, writes Laura Murphy
economist.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A human-rights researcher on why she pushed back when China bullied her university
economist.com/by-invitatio...
from The Economist
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from The Economist
Sheffield Hallam has stated publicly that it has apologized to me.
Here are those apologies.
Here are those apologies.
November 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Sheffield Hallam has stated publicly that it has apologized to me.
Here are those apologies.
Here are those apologies.
Reposted by Laura Murphy
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...
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
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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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.
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...
Read more: www.csis.org/analysis/ass...
September 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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.
Reposted by Laura Murphy
My investigation into the exposure of major retailers here in Ireland to forced labour cotton is going to be broadcast next Wednesday at 9.35pm on RTÉ One, with contributors including Kenneth Roth @lauratmurphy.bsky.social. Hope you tune in.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U8O...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U8O...
RTÉ Investigates: Forced Fashion | RTÉ
YouTube video by RTÉ - IRELAND’S NATIONAL PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA
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September 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
My investigation into the exposure of major retailers here in Ireland to forced labour cotton is going to be broadcast next Wednesday at 9.35pm on RTÉ One, with contributors including Kenneth Roth @lauratmurphy.bsky.social. Hope you tune in.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U8O...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U8O...
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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.
www.thewirechina.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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.
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📦 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...
@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
October 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
📦 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...
@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...
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"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...
@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
October 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"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...
@jasminchua.com covers their views on Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act effectiveness.
@sourcingjournal.com.web.brid.gy.
sourcingjournal.com/topics/labor...
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
April 16, 4Pm
143 Coates Hall, LSU
April 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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
April 16, 4Pm
143 Coates Hall, LSU
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'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
March 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
'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
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.
I was appalled to find that exactly ZERO profs came out to support.
April 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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.
I was appalled to find that exactly ZERO profs came out to support.
This Monday at 9:30, come out to Loyola New Orleans law school to remind Amy Coney Barrett that her job is to uphold the constitution, not a dictator.
April 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This Monday at 9:30, come out to Loyola New Orleans law school to remind Amy Coney Barrett that her job is to uphold the constitution, not a dictator.
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.
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.
April 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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.
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.
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.
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.
April 3, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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.
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.
Reposted by Laura Murphy
‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped
‘No Way’ to Please Everyone: Columbia’s President Confronts Trump’s Ultimatum
With Trump intent on making an example of Columbia, Armstrong is at the center of a fight over the future of higher education.
www.wsj.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped
News flash: the *American made* washer/dryer I bought last week costs $200 more today than it did yesterday.
Who wins in a tariff war??
Who wins in a tariff war??
April 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
News flash: the *American made* washer/dryer I bought last week costs $200 more today than it did yesterday.
Who wins in a tariff war??
Who wins in a tariff war??
This is critical! We cannot let these cases be heard in Louisiana.
I wonder: are there protests or actions happening outside the detention centers?
I wonder: are there protests or actions happening outside the detention centers?
April 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This is critical! We cannot let these cases be heard in Louisiana.
I wonder: are there protests or actions happening outside the detention centers?
I wonder: are there protests or actions happening outside the detention centers?
Tune in to CSPAN live now for an incredible filibuster from Cory Booker. He’s been speaking for 20 hours, but he’s on fire.
April 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Tune in to CSPAN live now for an incredible filibuster from Cory Booker. He’s been speaking for 20 hours, but he’s on fire.
Reposted by Laura Murphy
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What I did today to fight authoritarianism:
1) donated to Trans Justice Funding Project for Transgender Day of Visibility
connect.clickandpledge.com/w/Form/64330...
2) postered my neighborhood for Int’l day of action on Saturday. So easy!
www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...
1) donated to Trans Justice Funding Project for Transgender Day of Visibility
connect.clickandpledge.com/w/Form/64330...
2) postered my neighborhood for Int’l day of action on Saturday. So easy!
www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...
April 1, 2025 at 4:13 AM
What I did today to fight authoritarianism:
1) donated to Trans Justice Funding Project for Transgender Day of Visibility
connect.clickandpledge.com/w/Form/64330...
2) postered my neighborhood for Int’l day of action on Saturday. So easy!
www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...
1) donated to Trans Justice Funding Project for Transgender Day of Visibility
connect.clickandpledge.com/w/Form/64330...
2) postered my neighborhood for Int’l day of action on Saturday. So easy!
www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...
What I did today to fight authoritarianism:
1) Tesla protest
2) Vote in state elections
3) Made list of signs of dictatorship in US
4) Began research on orgs to donate to that were DOGE cut victims
5) Began list of things you can do to fight
#PeopleKeepAskingMeWhatTheyCanDo
1) Tesla protest
2) Vote in state elections
3) Made list of signs of dictatorship in US
4) Began research on orgs to donate to that were DOGE cut victims
5) Began list of things you can do to fight
#PeopleKeepAskingMeWhatTheyCanDo
March 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
What I did today to fight authoritarianism:
1) Tesla protest
2) Vote in state elections
3) Made list of signs of dictatorship in US
4) Began research on orgs to donate to that were DOGE cut victims
5) Began list of things you can do to fight
#PeopleKeepAskingMeWhatTheyCanDo
1) Tesla protest
2) Vote in state elections
3) Made list of signs of dictatorship in US
4) Began research on orgs to donate to that were DOGE cut victims
5) Began list of things you can do to fight
#PeopleKeepAskingMeWhatTheyCanDo
Work for/run an organization that lost government funding due to DOGE cuts? Accept donations? Please let me know here — especially if you’re in Louisiana but even if you’re not. I’m going to start posting this so people can know where to direct their donations.
#PeopleKeepAskingMeWhatTheyCanDo
#PeopleKeepAskingMeWhatTheyCanDo
March 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Work for/run an organization that lost government funding due to DOGE cuts? Accept donations? Please let me know here — especially if you’re in Louisiana but even if you’re not. I’m going to start posting this so people can know where to direct their donations.
#PeopleKeepAskingMeWhatTheyCanDo
#PeopleKeepAskingMeWhatTheyCanDo
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Uniqlo faces online China backlash over Xinjiang cotton comments
Uniqlo faces online China backlash over Xinjiang cotton comments
Commentators call for a boycott of the chain in China after it told the BBC it does not use Xinjiang cotton.
www.bbc.com
November 30, 2024 at 3:14 AM
Uniqlo faces online China backlash over Xinjiang cotton comments