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10 Jun 2021, 3:53 pm by Tom Smith
In a report published on Thursday, Amnesty called on the UN to investigate, and said China had subjected Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslims to mass detention, surveillance, and torture.Agnès Callamard, the secretary general of Amnesty International, accused Chinese authorities of creating "a dystopian hellscape on a staggering scale". [read post]
14 May 2022, 10:42 am by Tom Smith
Not content with its genocide against the Uyghur Muslim people, China is expanding its war on religious freedom. [read post]
10 Sep 2020, 5:15 pm by Tom Smith
This comes after Disney thanked several Chinese government branches involved in the persecution of Muslim Uyghurs in the end credits of the live-action movie Mulan. [read post]
10 Apr 2011, 8:33 pm by Arts Faculty Librarian
This site includes artifacts documenting the history of the Silk Road in the vast Tarim Basin in the Far Western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. [read post]
4 Dec 2019, 10:24 am by Keegan Boyle
“The Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act, which was passed 407-1 in the Democratic Party-controlled House, requires U.S. [read post]
25 May 2023, 11:30 am by Unknown
Opportunities:Seminar: Migration and the politics of transgression: a historical perspective, Oxford, 6 June 2023 [info]- Focuses on the history of Uyghur displacement and the Uyghur diaspora.Event: Refugee Week Australia, 18-24 June 2023 [info]- This year's theme is "Finding Freedom. [read post]
29 Jun 2023, 7:30 am by Unknown
., June 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]"I Escaped, But Not to Freedom": Failure to Protect Uyghur Refugees (Uyghur Human Rights Project, June 2023) [access]Navigating Ethical Dilemmas for Humanitarian Action in Afghanistan (Humanitarian Outcomes, June 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]Promoting Regional Responses to Rohingya Displacement in Southeast Asia (Protecting Rohingya Refugees in Asia Project, June 2023) [text via MMC]"Protecting the Human Rights of Refugees in Camps in… [read post]
24 Apr 2024, 6:41 pm
Second,  it serves to enhance a legal framework for decoupling trade that is connected to "all goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, or by persons working with the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region government for purposes of the ‘‘poverty alleviation’’ program or the ‘‘pairing-assistance’’ program which subsidizes… [read post]
23 May 2022, 8:47 am
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) budget to enforce the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (P.L. 117-78). [read post]
12 Mar 2020, 9:55 am by Keegan Boyle
US lawmakers on both sides of the aisle proposed a bill Wednesday, entitled the “Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act,” to restrict goods from China. [read post]
27 May 2022, 11:17 am by Jordan Schneider
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act will come into force in the US on June, 21, 2022. [read post]
13 Dec 2023, 5:10 pm by Michel-Adrien
These facts are underscored by two recent and high-profile international developments: the February 2021 military coup in Myanmar; and the persecution of Uyghurs and other minorities in China's Xinjiang province. [read post]
13 Apr 2021, 2:03 pm by Howard Friedman
Yesterday President Biden issued a Statement on the Beginning of Ramadan (full text), saying in part:On my first day as President, I was proud to end the shameful Muslim travel ban, and I will continue to stand up for human rights everywhere, including for Uyghurs in China, Rohingya in Burma, and Muslim communities all over the world.As we remember those who we have lost since last Ramadan, we are hopeful for brighter days ahead. [read post]
17 Jun 2022, 3:26 pm by Will Troutman (US)
While we will have more to say shortly on the strategy itself, we wanted to make sure you all saw that the U.S. [read post]
2 Apr 2022, 6:53 pm
 Our Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act shows how to convert the Commission’s work into law, and I look forward to continuing to work with my colleagues to put the CECC’s recommendations into action. [read post]
15 Sep 2022, 5:31 am by Brady Worthington
Several cases include “the arrest and imprisonment, often on lengthy custodial sentences, of prominent scholars, artists, and intellectuals from the Uyghur community. [read post]
8 Jun 2021, 6:33 pm
We again press our House and Senate colleagues to swiftly pass the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which would impose real costs on any Chinese entity using the slave labor of Uyghur and other Muslim ethnic minorities. [read post]
16 Nov 2021, 9:13 am by Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada
Another Canadian, Huseyin Celil, has been jailed in China since 2006 on specious “terrorism” charges for peacefully advocating the rights of Uyghur people. [read post]