Posts Tagged ‘Economic Rights’
UHRP’s Director Speaks in Japan About the Belt and Road Initiative’s Effect on Uyghurs
UHRP’s director Omer Kanat spoke this month in Japan at a conference sponsored by the Japan Uyghur Association on China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its effects on the Uyghurs. He presented UHRP’s report on the BRI and recent developments in China’s overseas investment and loan strategy. Mr. Kanat argued that the fact that East…
Read MoreThe Government Puts a Positive Spin on East Turkestan at the China-Eurasia Expo
September 19, 2016 The fifth annual China-Eurasia Expo takes place this week in Urumqi from September 20th to 25th, giving the Chinese government a platform to present its economic vision for the region to an international audience of political and business leaders. This will be the first of these Expos to take place since Xinjiang…
Read MoreUyghurs, Other Ethnic Groups Need Not Apply
August 7, 2013 Greg Fay, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project “Ethnic groups including the Hui, Dongxiang, Salar, Yi, Tibetan and Xinjiang Uyghur, with special lifestyles are refused admission.” So reads the sign at an Apple supplier factory in China, photographed by a China Labor Watch (CLW) investigator for a new report released by the New York-based…
Read MoreWestern companies profit from state development in East Turkestan
July 22, 2011 Amy Reger, Researcher, Uyghur Human Rights Project According to Chinese and Western media reports, the world’s largest private-sector coal company, the St. Louis-based Peabody Energy, inked a massive deal with the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region government and the Communist Party of Xinjiang on July 14 to develop a coal surface mine that…
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