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Rule of law and democracy
Rule of law and democracy
By Uyghur Times Staff China passed an anti-West foreign relations law to counter global democracy led by the U.S., as reported by China’s state propaganda outlet, the Global Times. The newly enacted law aims to counter so-called “frequent external interference in China’s internal affairs” and challenge “Western hegemony “with unilateral […]
April 22, 2020 By Uyghur Human Rights Project On Earth Day, UHRP highlights the connection between state oppression of Uyghurs and environmental degradation in East Turkistan. The Chinese government has increased the extraction of East Turkistan’s natural resources, such as minerals and foil fuels, and has massively expanded intensive agriculture […]
March 2, 2020 By Uyghur Human Rights Project UHRP Press Release For immediate Release March 2, 2020 Contacts: Nicole Morgret +1 202-478-1920 (o), Louisa Greve +1 571-882-4825 (m) Nike must stop making Shoes and Air Max shoes using Uighur forced labor. Nike should remove these shoes from the shelves if […]
February 26, 2020 By American Anthropological Association A decade after the protests that sparked the crackdown in the Uighur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang), the Chinese government continues its campaign of eliminating and replacing the Indigenous cultural systems and societies in the Uighur and Kazakh regions of Northwest China. The eradication of […]
By ETNAM February 27, 2020 – Washington, DC On November 15, 2000, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 55/25, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, which was signed by 117 states and ratified […]
February 28, 2020 By Salih Hudayar Over the past month, as the coronavirus began to grab the attention of the international community, the intense persecution of the Uighurs and other peoples of East Turkistan (the region that China calls “Xinjiang”) has become largely forgotten. Now, perhaps more than ever, the […]