The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) has submitted a report for consideration by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in preparation for the Committee’s examination of the 3rd periodic report of China.
Louisa Greve, Director of Global Advocacy for the Uyghur Human Rights Project joins us to discuss the modern day Genocide & Humanitarian crisis that is affecting the Uyghur population in China.
The US government today issued a sweeping ban on imports containing any cotton or tomato products originating in China’s Xinjiang region, where at least 1 million members of the country’s Uyghur ethnic minority are estimated to be held in camps and widely pressed into forced labor.
Since 2017, China has waged a repressive campaign against Uyghurs in an effort to destroy their ways of life.
Coalition urges US Senate to pass the bill + welcomes CBP’s XPCC Cotton Ban— 6% of world’s cotton supply
"As the world grapples with the aftermath of the pandemic, the Uyghur human rights crisis must be addressed in order to ensure that these types of atrocity crimes do not become the new normal," writes Omer Kanat.
We are organizing protests at Chinese consulates internationally on December 10th. Join us in New York. with the @UyghurProject. We will shine a light on this genocide. #Uyghurs
Chairman of Uighur World Congress calls on Ireland to use its position on UN Security Council
As atrocities against Uyghur Muslims in China continue, Chinese authorities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), have now detained hundreds of Muslim Imams, according to an Uyghur linguist in exile.
When Joe Biden is sworn in as president of the US on Jan. 20, he will inherit a number of thorny problems. Among them is how to confront China about its systematic oppression of the predominately Muslim Uyghur ethnic minority in the country’s northwest Xinjiang region.