On the opening night of New York Fashion Week, Uyghur rights and advocacy groups staged demonstrations, highlighting the industry’s accountability in the ongoing plight of Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region, where it’s believed upwards of 1.8 million people are being used as forced labour. By Chris Remington
It is our job as Jewish people — and, more broadly, as citizens of the world — to keep kicking, screaming, and shouting until these global issues are addressed and ameliorated. By Sam Shepherd
Mamutjan Abdurehim lives in Sydney and he has been separated from his wife and children for almost five years now. By William Yang
Time: Mon Sep 14, 2020, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Tomomi Shimizu recently documented the 15-month detention of Uyghur Kazakh Gulbahar Jelilova.
The camps are confirmed to be operational, even as Chinese officials say all such facilities have closed.
Does a regime accused of atrocity crimes and grave breaches of an international treaty deserve to host this prestigious sporting event?
More than 100 British lawmakers have signed a letter to the Chinese ambassador condemning what they described as "a systematic and calculated program of ethnic cleansing against the Uighur people" in China’s far-western Xinjiang region.
A village leader says such accusations could lead to detention for ‘religious extremism.’
Chinese authorities arrested and disappeared my father. Now Disney is profiting off China’s persecution of our people. By Jewher Ilham
Bibliography of select news reports & academic works
Compiled by Professor Magnus Fiskesjö
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
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.
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.
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) has released a new report, Kashgar Coerced: Forced Reconstruction, Exploitation, and Surveillance in the Cradle of Uyghur Culture. The report documents the Chinese government’s campaign to stamp out tangible aspects of Uyghur culture, using the ancient city of Kashgar as the most emblematic case.
The #HearUyghurs Campaign: On April 17, Uyghur diaspora activist Arslan Hidayat launched a new social-media campaign with the hashtag #HearUyghurs. The campaign highlights the trauma experienced by the worldwide Uyghur diaspora.
UHRP’s new report, “Weaponized Passports: The Crisis of Uyghur Statelessness,” documents an ongoing and worsening issue facing Uyghurs abroad, namely refusal to renew passports and denial of access to other documentation by the Chinese government.