The move is the latest in a series of motions passed by world parliaments and governments making the designation.
The Lithuanian parliament on Thursday passed a motion condemning China for what it called China’s policy of genocide against Uyghur Muslims in the northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur...
URUMQI, China — China has highlighted an unlikely series of videos this year in which Uighur men and women deny US charges that Beijing is committing human rights violations against their ethnic group. In fact, a text obtained by the AP shows that the videos are part of a government campaign...
VILNIUS (Reuters) - The parliament in Lithuania on Thursday became the latest to describe China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority as “genocide”, voting to call for a U.N. investigation of internment camps and to ask the European Commission to review relations with Beijing.
The Biden...
The Lithuanian parliament has adopted a resolution condemning “crimes against humanity” and “the Uyghur genocide” in China. Beijing's embassy has responded by calling the document interference in China's domestic affairs.
The resolution, passed on Thursday in a vote of 86 to one with seven...
A bipartisan bill being introduced in the House Wednesday would hold President Biden accountable for taking tangible steps to address the Chinese Communist Party's genocide of the Uyghur population, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: Amid concerns about a rapidly aging population, the...
BEIJING (AP) — Israel’s Embassy in China is protesting what it describes as “blatant antisemitism” on a program run by the overseas channel of state broadcaster CCTV discussing the ongoing violence in Gaza and elsewhere.
In a tweet, the embassy said “we have hoped that the times of the ‘Jew’s...
The Uyghur people of north-west China are now the most persecuted group on the planet with one million people locked up in “re-education” camps facing numerous atrocities on a daily basis.
The US government, the parliaments of the UK., Canada and The Netherlands now all say that it is clearly...
The U.S. customs agency blocked a shipment of Fast Retailing Co.’s Uniqlo shirts in January for violating an order prohibiting imports of items suspected to be produced by forced labor from China’s state-owned Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
The blockage of Uniqlo’s cotton men’s...
BRUSSELS — The European Parliament is expected to pass a motion on Thursday pushing to formally freeze the EU’s investment agreement with China, in the wake of what MEPs describe as Beijing’s "baseless and arbitrary" sanctions on EU lawmakers earlier this year.
The draft motion, seen by...