Posts Tagged ‘Cultural Rights’
Omer Kanat’s Remarks at the Launch of “Demolishing Faith: The Destruction and Desecration of Uyghur Mosques and Shrines”
Below is the transcript of UHRP Director Omer Kanat’s remarks at the launch of UHRP’s new report on the systematic destruction of mosques in East Turkestan. The event also featured remarks by the report’s main researcher and writer Bahram Sintash, NED President Carl Gershman, and commentary by Elise Anderson and RFA Uyghur Service Director Alim Seytoff. …
Read MoreSymposium on the Identity Crisis of Uyghurs Today- Friday, May 25th, 2018 9:30 am to 4:00 pm
May 22, 2018 The Uyghur American Association, Uyghur Academy & UHRP are pleased to host a “Symposium on the Identity Crisis of Uyghurs Today” This one-day event will be held from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm on Friday, May 25th, 2018 at the George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian…
Read MoreWe Are Uyghur: Artist Q&A with Susan Kattas
January 21, 2014 Greg Fay, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project We are Uyghur. Collage by Susan Kattas.Photograph of the artwork courtesy of the artist. Susan Kattas, a Hudson, Wisconsin-based artist, recently created a collage inspired by the Uyghurs’ cultural struggle under Chinese government repression. The collage was part of the 45th Parallel Exhibition celebrating peoples…
Read MoreMazar Shrine Book Launch Details State Control Cautiously
February 20, 2013 Greg Fay, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project Photographer Lisa Ross spent eight years studying and photographing mazar, Uyghur religious shrines, across East Turkestan, and the resulting images can be seen in a new book, Living Shrines of Uyghur China. Ross spoke at a book launch at the Rubin Museum in New York…
Read MoreArt on Uyghurs in NYC Highlights China’s Information Control
December 7, 2012 Greg Fay, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project To inaugurate Forever & Today’s gallery opening in New York’s Chinatown in 2008, the artist collective Slavs and Tatars made a poster: “Keep Your Majorities Close But Your Minorities Closer.” Slavs and Tatars focuses on Eurasia from the Berlin Wall to the Great Wall of…
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