The Chinese Government’s Misleading White Paper on the Human Rights Situation in East Turkestan
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Ban on “Islamic” names an absurd intrusion into Uyghurs’ private lives
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) expresses alarm at recent measures preventing Uyghurs from choosing state restricted names for their newborn children.
Discrimination, Mistreatment and Coercion: Uyghurs Face Severe Labor Rights Abuses in China and East Turkestan
Unemployment is one of the biggest challenges facing the Uyghur people in East Turkestan.
End of the Road: One Belt, One Road and the Cumulative Economic Marginalization of the Uyghurs
End of the Road: One Belt, One Road and the Cumulative Economic Marginalization of the Uyghurs, a new research report by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), is an examination of China’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR) economic initiative from a Uyghur human rights perspective.
The New Implementation Guidelines for the Counter-Terrorism Law in East Turkestan Will Reinforce Government’s Curbs on Human Rights
Rather than addressing the issues of economic marginalization of the Uyghur population, the repression of free religious practice and use of the Uyghur, the new guidelines clearly indicate that authorities intend to continue and increase the militarization of the region. The implementation guidelines suggest that authorities continue to regard East Turkestan as a “battlefield”
Without land, there is no life: Chinese state suppression of Uyghur environmental activism
The Uyghur Human Rights Project releases a report on the limits placed on environmental activism among Uyghurs
China’s New Counter-Terrorism Law and Its Human Rights Implications for the Uyghur People
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) is concerned a new Counter-Terrorism Law adopted by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on December 27, 2015, and effective as of January 1, 2016, is a mandate for the Chinese government to commit human rights violations against the Uyghur people in East Turkestan.
Human Rights Day 2015: Act Now for Uyghur Political Prisoners
Sign a PETITION on behalf of Uyghurs in jail for political reasons
Uyghur Voices on Education: China’s Assimilative ‘Bilingual Education’ Policy in East Turkestan
New report highlights assimilative language policy through firsthand accounts
Legitimizing Repression: China’s “War on Terror” Under Xi Jinping and State Policy in East Turkestan
New report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project analyses political violence from 2013-14
Uyghur Political Prisoners – A Call for Action
UHRP organizes a PETITION on behalf of Uyghurs in jail for political reasons
Trapped in a Virtual Cage: Chinese State Repression of Uyghurs Online
A new report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project details the Chinese government’s severe restrictions placed on Uyghur Internet users.
China attempts to criminalize every aspect of Uyghur religious belief and practice
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Rumors, Suspicion and Hysteria: Urumchi’s Han Residents Target Uyghurs in September 2009 Pinprick Attack Scare
Rumors, Suspicion and Hysteria, a new report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) details the events of late August and early September 2009 in which a series of alleged pinprick attacks shook the regional capital of East Turkestan, Urumchi.
To Strike The Strongest Blow: Questions Remain Over Crackdown On 2009 Unrest In Urumchi
A new report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), To Strike The Strongest Blow: Questions Remain Over Crackdown On 2009 Unrest In Urumchi, details widespread human rights violations committed by the People’s Republic of China in the wake of unrest in Urumchi on July 5, 2009.
Sacred Right Defiled: China’s Iron-Fisted Repression of Uyghur Religious Freedom
A new report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) details the repression of religious freedom among Uyghurs in the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Refusals of passports to Uyghurs and confiscations of passports held by Uyghurs indicator of second-class status in China
The Uyghur American Association (UAA) calls on the Chinese government to immediately halt all discriminatory practices regarding the issuance of passports to Uyghurs.
Uyghur Homeland, Chinese Frontier: The Xinjiang Work Forum and Centrally Led Development
A new 37-page report by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) examines the effects of the Xinjiang Work Forum, held in May 2010, which heralded an unprecedented state-led development push in East Turkestan.
Living on the Margins: The Chinese State’s Demolition of Uyghur Communities
A new 89-page report by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) documents the Chinese state’s top-down destruction of Uyghur communities in Kashgar and throughout East Turkestan, in a targeted and highly politicized push that Chinese officials have accelerated in the wake of turbulent unrest in the region in 2009.
They Can’t Send Me Back: Uyghur Asylum Seekers in Europe
A new report by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) documents the challenges faced by Uyghur asylum seekers in Europe, and examines the reasons why they fled East Turkestan
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