Posts Tagged ‘Cultural Rights’
Help Us Protect Uyghur Culture: May 5 is Uyghur Doppa Day
May 5 is Uyghur Doppa Day—a day to honor and share the rich cultural heritage of the Uyghur people.
Read MoreMy Father’s Doppa: In Honor of Uyghur Doppa Day, May 5
May 2, 2025 A UHRP Insights column by Rafael Kokbore In 2003, when I was 11 years old, my father was forced to flee overseas due to political persecution by the Chinese government. After that, my mother and I were dependent on each other, living in depression and fear. My mother was constantly questioned, threatened,…
Read MoreThe Travel Industry Is Normalizing Crimes Against Humanity
Between 2019 and 2020, for a paper on the role of tourism in the securitization of the Uyghur Region, I interviewed several Uyghurs, former tour guides in their homeland and now in exile. The above quote came from a tour guide with more than twenty years of experience and a former resident of Kashgar.
Read MoreEuropean Travel Companies Asked to Drop East Turkistan Tours, as UHRP Calls for an End to Organized Tourism Amid Crimes Against Humanity
For immediate releaseMarch 21, 2024, 7:00 a.m. EDTContact: Omer Kanat, +1 (202) 790-1795, Peter Irwin, +1 (646) 906-7722 The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) is calling on European travel companies to drop organized tours to East Turkistan, following the release of a UHRP briefing highlighting their risk of complicity in crimes against humanity. “We alerted…
Read MoreUHRP Hails House Passage of Uyghur Policy Act, Calls for Swift Action in the Senate
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) praises passage of the Uyghur Policy Act, which passed by an overwhelming majority in the US House of Representatives today, and calls for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to move the bill for markup swiftly.
Read MoreOn the 27th Anniversary of Ghulja Massacre, UHRP Reminds Governments of Their Obligations Under Genocide Convention
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) commemorates the 27th anniversary of the Ghulja Massacre, and recalls the international community’s failures to heed early warning signs of forthcoming atrocities and its obligations to prevent and to punish the crime of genocide.
Read MoreEuropean Travel Companies Offer Xinjiang “Genocide Tours”: 18 Companies Named in New UHRP Briefing
January 17, 2024 | 7:00 a.m. ESTFor Immediate ReleaseContact: Omer Kanat +1 (202) 790-1795, Peter Irwin +1 (646) 906-7722 New research from the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) highlights the ongoing problem of organized travel to the Uyghur region amid crimes against humanity and genocide. The briefing, Genocide Tours: European Travel Companies in East Turkistan,…
Read MoreState Department MOU Recognizes China’s Ownership and Control Over Uyghur and Tibetan Cultural Heritage
Uyghurs and Tibetans have seen the People’s Republic of China (PRC) purposefully destroy their cultural heritage in an effort to create the false narrative that the Han were always the dominant culture throughout what is now China.
Read MoreUyghurs and Tibetans: A Shared Agenda for National Survival and Justice
The author of this article, Tashken Davlet, Outreach Specialist of UHRP, was invited by the Tibet Policy Institute (TPI) to attend the conference “China and the Changing Global Order: Prospests and Challenges” where he published and delivered this report.
Read More“I’m From Xinjiang” Videos, New Uyghurs, and a Deracinated People
China has been promoting “new Uyghurs,” or Uyghurs cleansed of their identity by the state, via a platform called “I’m from Xinjiang” as propaganda about the situation in East Turkistan.
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