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.
UHRP in the News
Human rights groups call for action on China's AI-enabled religious repression
February 4, 2020 
February 4, 2020
The China Coalition and The AI Organization call upon U.S. tech companies to confront the role they have played in aiding repression. Further, the Coalition calls upon democratic governments to take action to cut off this assistance to Chinese Communist Party’s continued exploitation of technology to suppress freedom of religion and belief in China and around the world.
EVENT: UHRP's Omer Kanat joins Holocaust Museum panel February 5: "Religious Persecution 75 years after the Holocaust"
February 3, 2020 
February 3, 2020
The Holocaust ended nearly 75 years ago, but persecution against religious minorities including Jews, Christians, Yazidis, Muslims, and others continues to this day.
Safe and sound? China launches propaganda blitz to discredit Uyghur #StillNoInfo campaign
January 21, 2020 
January 21, 2020
Aydidar Kahar tucks her long hair behind her ear and smiles at the camera.
More than 100 Uyghur graveyards demolished by Chinese authorities, satellite images show
January 2, 2020 
January 2, 2020
Uyghur poet Aziz Isa Elkun fled China's far western Xinjiang region more than 20 years ago.
Bloomberg’s business in China has grown. That could create unprecedented entanglements if he is elected president
January 2, 2020 
January 2, 2020
Mike Bloomberg was presiding over his inaugural Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore in 2018 when, to the surprise of some in the audience, he gushed about one of China’s top government officials.
WHY DON’T WE CARE ABOUT CHINA’S UIGHUR MUSLIMS?
December 30, 2019 
December 30, 2019
IT’S BEEN DESCRIBED as the worst human rights crisis in the world — the arbitrary detention in sprawling camps of a million or more Uighur Muslims in China’s northwestern Xinjiang province.
Inside China’s Push to Turn Muslim Minorities Into an Army of Workers
December 30, 2019 
December 30, 2019
The Communist Party wants to remold Xinjiang’s minorities into loyal blue-collar workers to supply Chinese factories with cheap labor.
China's Human Rights Abuses in Xinjiang and the U.S. Response
December 18, 2019 
December 18, 2019
Recently leaked documents have exposed the Chinese Communist Party’s strategy of implementing the largest-scale persecution of a distinct ethnic-religious group since the end of World War II.
Louisa Greve of the Uyghur Human Rights Project on China: 12/16/19, Hr. 1
December 16, 2019
December 16, 2019
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China's Human Rights Abuses in Xinjiang and the U.S. Response
December 12, 2019 
December 12, 2019
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List of Issues Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee During its Periodic Review of China
Jan 11, 2021
Jan 11, 2021
EXPLAINER—Five Things to Know About the Bingtuan
Aug 27, 2020
Aug 27, 2020
The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) or Bingtuan:
1. Exercises State & Police Powers
2. Serves as a Colonizing Force
3. Commits Brutal Abuses
4. Profits from Uyghur Forced Labor
5. Operates a Global Business Empire
UHRP BRIEFING—Uyghurs to China: "Return our relatives’ passports"
Aug 6, 2020
Aug 6, 2020
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) has released a new briefing highlighting calls by Uyghur Americans for the Chinese government to return their relatives’ passports and permit travel overseas for family reunifications in the United States.
UHRP REPORT: “The Happiest Muslims in the World”: Disinformation, Propaganda, and the Uyghur Crisis
Jul 28, 2020
Jul 28, 2020
The Uyghur Human Rights Project has released a new report analyzing the Chinese government’s attempts to craft and promote a narrative responding to international criticism of its large-scale arbitrary detention of Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples.
BRIEFING: Testimony of Dr. Elise Anderson Before the House of Commons of Canada, Subcommittee on International Human Rights
Jul 21, 2020
Jul 21, 2020
On July 21, 2020, Dr. Elise Anderson, UHRP's Senior Program Officer for Research and Advocacy, testified before the House of Commons of the Canadian Parliament on the Human Rights Situation of the Uyghurs.
UHRP REPORT—Kashgar Coerced: Forced Reconstruction, Exploitation, and Surveillance in the Cradle of Uyghur Culture
Jun 3, 2020
Jun 3, 2020
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) has released a new report, Kashgar Coerced: Forced Reconstruction, Exploitation, and Surveillance in the Cradle of Uyghur Culture. The report documents the Chinese government’s campaign to stamp out tangible aspects of Uyghur culture, using the ancient city of Kashgar as the most emblematic case.