Summary Bachelet has sought access to Xinjiang for nearly 3 years Says her office is assessing alleged abuses while negotiating Has previously initiated probes without a country's invitation "It is time for her to act," says Ken Roth, Human Rights Watch

More than 40 countries urged China on Tuesday to allow the UN human rights chief immediate access to Xinjiang region to look into reports that more than a million people have been unlawfully detained there, some subjected to torture or forced labor. The joint statement on China was read out...

The largest group representing exiled ethnic Uighurs has written to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging him to demand that Beijing close its internment camps in the Xinjiang region in talks on Thursday.