Posts Tagged ‘UHRP Insights’
We 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 MoreBlog Action Day: A Uyghur Human Rights Perspective
October 16, 2013 Greg Fay, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project The theme for Blog Action Day on October 16, 2013 is human rights. The Uyghur Human Rights Project, a Washington, DC-based NGO, has made the subject of bloggers a major focus of our human rights campaigning. For the Uyghur people, blogging and other forms of…
Read MoreOpening a window to exchange, building a bridge of communication: Uyghur Human Rights Project launches a Chinese website
October 9, 2013 By Lu Xiao Xun, Guest Contributor Controlling the political, cultural and social information contained in language is a tactic of any dictatorship. China is world-famous for its control of newspapers, TV, radio, Internet, microblogs, text messaging, blogs, e-mail, and virtually every other form of communicating information. The Cisco-technology driven “Golden Shield” project…
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 MoreBook Review: The Vine Basket by Josanne La Valley
May 6, 2013 Ai Lian, Intern, Uyghur Human Rights Project The Vine Basket is a young adult fiction novel that tells the story of a Uyghur girl – Mehrigul – who comes from a small village in East Turkestan (also known as Xinjiang) and faces challenges to finish the one task that could change her life,…
Read MoreUHRP Oral History Project — Interview with Kudrat Emin
March 28, 2013 The Uyghur Human Rights Project’s oral history project, launched in 2012, is a video series of short, documentary-style recordings of the stories of Uyghurs in exile and the circumstances of their flight from China. The project’s goal is to present viewers with human rights abuses in East Turkestan through the stories of…
Read MoreMalaysia and the Deportation of Ethnic Uyghur Asylum Seekers
February 22, 2013 Matt James, Intern, Uyghur Human Rights Project Malaysia is not a nation that is immediately associated with Uyghur asylum seekers. However, the Southeast Asian nation has been the center of not one but two major Uyghur asylum-seeking scandals in the past two years. In both cases, Uyghur asylum seekers were secretly deported…
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 MoreTicking Time Bomb: The Ethnic Crisis Facing China’s New Leadership
Alim Seytoff, President, Uyghur American Association Mr. Seytoff delivered the following speech at a panel discussion organized by Initiatives for China on January 31, 2013 in Washington, DC: Good afternoon everyone. First, I want to thank Dr. Yang Jianli and Initiatives for China for organizing this rather timely panel discussion on the ethnic crisis facing China’s new…
Read MoreGhulja Massacre and China’s Ongoing Repression of Uyghurs
February 5, 2013 Matt James, Intern, Uyghur Human Rights Project Today marks the 16th anniversary of the February 5, 1997 massacre in Ghulja city, which like many of the Chinese state-sponsored acts of cultural genocide and oppression against the Uyghur people has been tragically overlooked by the international community. The Ghulja Massacre’s origins were rooted…
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