UHRP Board Chair Nury Turkel has been named one of the world’s 100 most influential people by TIME.
Sep 22, 2020
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) extends its deep gratitude to the U.S. House of Representatives for passing the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. The bill is the first national legislation anywhere in the world enforcing human-rights standards to end the import of goods made with Uyghur forced labor.
Sep 18, 2020
Uyghur Americans met with 58 Congressional offices in August and early September to urge action on China’s widespread use of Uyghur forced labor. The advocacy days coincided with increased attention to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, a bill designed to end corporate complicity of American companies and consumers in forced labor.
Sep 16, 2020
On September 14, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced five new withhold release orders (WROs) in response to China’s widespread use of forced and prison labour in the Uyghur Region. These WROs are recognition that the advocacy of Uyghur groups, human rights organizations, trade unions and investors who have documented the use of forced labour in global supply chains linked to the Uyghur Region is paying off.
Sep 14, 2020
UHRP and 22 genocide and atrocity prevention organizations from 5 countries call for action. The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) has sent an open letter to governments, along with 22 genocide and atrocity prevention organizations from 5 countries, and 16 senior experts, expressing grave concern that crimes against humanity and genocide are taking place against Uyghurs in East Turkistan.
Sep 4, 2020
Uyghurs around the world stand in strong solidarity with Southern Mongolians as they defend their language. Uyghurs salute and support the peaceful efforts by Mongolian students to stop the erasure of their language in their homeland of Uvur Mongol (English: Southern Mongolia), often referred to as "Inner Mongolia."
Aug 31, 2020
Groups file petition with Customs and Border Protection for a regional Withhold Release Order on cotton products from the Xinjiang Region
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Auditors to Stop Inspecting Factories in China’s Xinjiang Despite Forced-Labor Concerns
September 21, 2020
Restricted access has made examinations difficult in a region where China’s repressive tactics against Muslim minorities have been criticized. By Eva Xiao
Uighur Muslims deserve better than re-education camps — Rais Hussin
September 21, 2020
Xinjiang, contrary to what many people believe, is not the word which Uighur Muslims themselves chose, or accept. In Mandarin, it means “new land.” But here is the puzzle. Islam has a history in China, especially Xi-An, even much further east to Xinjiang, since the 7th century AD. By Rais Hussin
Xinjiang government confirms huge birth rate drop but denies forced sterilization of women
September 21, 2020
Chinese officials have officially acknowledged birth rates in Xinjiang dropped by almost a third in 2018, compared to the previous year, in a letter to CNN in which they also denied reports of forced sterilization and genocide by authorities in the far western region. By Ivan Watson, Rebecca Wright and Ben Westcott
Missing Uyghur Confirmed Dead by UN Working Group on Disappearances
September 21, 2020
The Chinese government says Ghopur Hapiz died from ‘pneumonia and tuberculosis’ in 2018.
Beijing’s attack on Uyghurs isn’t counterterrorism
September 21, 2020
The Chinese government insists its detention and re-education of Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities is part of legitimate counterterrorism operations. By Leigh Hartman
Sexual Abuse of Uyghur Women by CCP Cadres in Xinjiang: A Victim Speaks Out
September 21, 2020
Now a refugee in Europe, Qelbinur has decided to break her silence and tell Bitter Winter the reality about Han Chinese “relatives” sent to Xinjiang to live in the homes of Uyghurs. By Ruth Ingram
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September 2, 2020
Mihrigul Tursun tearfully recalled on Tuesday the torture she suffered in the Uyghur Muslim concentration camps in Xinjiang, China. By Anushay Chaudhry
August 31, 2020
Dozens of people in Washington and New York City took to the streets Friday afternoon, calling on the U.S. government, the United Nations and countries around the world to do more than condemn the violence against Uighurs, and recognize China’s policies in the northwest region of Xinjiang as a genocide. By Asim Kashgarian
EXPLAINER—Five Things to Know About the Bingtuan
Aug 27, 2020
Aug 27, 2020
The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) or Bingtuan:
1. Exercises State & Police Powers
2. Serves as a Colonizing Force
3. Commits Brutal Abuses
4. Profits from Uyghur Forced Labor
5. Operates a Global Business Empire
UHRP BRIEFING—Uyghurs to China: "Return our relatives’ passports"
Aug 6, 2020
Aug 6, 2020
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) has released a new briefing highlighting calls by Uyghur Americans for the Chinese government to return their relatives’ passports and permit travel overseas for family reunifications in the United States.
UHRP REPORT: “The Happiest Muslims in the World”: Disinformation, Propaganda, and the Uyghur Crisis
Jul 28, 2020
Jul 28, 2020
The Uyghur Human Rights Project has released a new report analyzing the Chinese government’s attempts to craft and promote a narrative responding to international criticism of its large-scale arbitrary detention of Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples.