Forced Labor in Xinjiang, UN Rapporteur Confirms: “It’s Enslavement, a Crime Against Humanity.”

August 29, 2022

“The case against the Chinese government at the UN level continues to build,” said Omer Kanat, the director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project. “It should now be impossible for UN agencies and member states to ignore atrocities of this magnitude,” he said adding his hopes that Obokata’s report will increase pressure on UN special envoy Michelle Bachelet (or her successor) to release her office’s own report on the Uyghur homeland.

“We reiterate our joint call for Ms. Bachelet to uphold a principled and coherent response to China’s human rights crisis,” he said, referring to a joint statement, signed by the Uyghur Human Rights Project along with 63 human rights organizations and Uyghur groups, expressing dissatisfaction over the approach of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, towards Uyghurs.

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