On January 19, 2021, then Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made the long-overdue determination that the government of China is carrying out a genocide against the Uyghurs and other Turkic groups in the Xinjiang autonomous territory in China. Concentration camps have been erected across the region,...

12 May 2021 -   The international community has grown increasingly concerned about the human rights situation in Xinjiang, China. This high-level event has the goal of bringing together UN officials, civil society representatives, academics, journalists, as well as representatives of affected...

Birthrates in Xinjiang fell by almost half in the two years after the Chinese government implemented policies to reduce the number of babies born to Uyghur and other Muslim minority families, new research has claimed. The figures show unprecedented declines which were more extreme than any...

The United Nations must take urgent and immediate action to protect Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims facing crimes against humanity committed by China in its northwestern Xinjiang region, diplomats, legal experts, and rights activists said on Wednesday. Speaking in an online virtual meeting,...

The United States, Germany and Britain clashed with China at the United Nations on Wednesday over the treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, angering Beijing by hosting a virtual event that China had lobbied U.N. member states to stay away from. "We will keep standing up and speaking out...

Apple CEO Tim Cook is in the crosshairs of at least one U.S. lawmaker over a recent report claiming Chinese firms in the tech giant's supply chain exploit Uyghur labor. An explosive report from The Information on Monday exposed potential ties between Apple suppliers and forced labor programs...

China has imprisoned or detained at least 630 imams and other Muslim religious figures since 2014 in its crackdown in the Xinjiang region, according to new research by a Uyghur rights group. The research, compiled by the Uyghur Human Rights Project and shared with the BBC, also found evidence...

BEIJING (AP) — Xinjiang in far western China had the sharpest known decline in birthrates between 2017 and 2019 of any territory in recent history, according to a new analysis by an Australian think tank. The report from the Australian Strategy Policy Institute, obtained exclusively ahead of...