March 10, 2020 By Anjuman Rahman Arab silence on the looming genocide of the Uighur Muslims in China is deafening. Supposedly influential and powerful Arab states look on as the persecution continues. There are an increasing number of testimonies from Uighur refugees and asylum seekers documenting the most unimaginable forms […]
Your iPhone (or android) may have been manufactured by Uighur Muslims being held in modern-day slavery. Now, you can use that phone to help put an end to this vile exploitation! For years, the Chinese government has been abducting, isolating, and brainwashing innocent people simply because of their religious beliefs. A new report revealed a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. lawmakers pushed Wednesday for a ban on imports from a vast area of northwestern China because of the widespread use of forced labor on farms and factories in a region where the communist government has detained more than a million people in a campaign against ethnic […]
By Uighur American Association On the evening of March 6th, 2020 the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum hosted the public program China’s Systematic Persecution of Uighurs. Hundreds of Uighur Americans and others from the community listened to powerful speeches from Massachusetts Congressman, Co-Chair of the Congressional Executive Commission on China, […]
By Uighur Human Rights Project Tuesday, March 10, 2020 | 2:30 – 4:00 pm U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, Room HVC-215 | Washington, DC Prof. Donald C. Clarke, Chinese law specialist, George Washington University Ethan Gutmann, China Studies Research Fellow, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Susie Hughes, Executive Director, International Coalition […]
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 […]
Afrasiyab, Uighur Times Feb 26,2020,Washington DC Chinese state-run media Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday that 229 enterprises in Hotan prefecture in the south of Uighur region has “resumed production in an orderly manner and more than 30,000 surplus laborers in the rural area have returned to work.” This move […]