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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
Export restrictions target companies that produce raw materials used in Xinjiang’s solar panel industry.
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...
Canada leads more than 40 countries in voicing concern over Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Tibet, sparking clash at UN
Just moments before Canada was due to issue a call for an international investigation into crimes against Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang on Tuesday, a Chinese diplomat stepped in with Beijing’s own proposal: an investigation into Canada.
“We are deeply concerned about the human rights violations...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau challenged China to publicly and transparently probe its mistreatment of Muslim minorities as Beijing and its allies call for an independent investigation into Canada’s treatment of Indigenous peoples.
“In Canada, we had a Truth and Reconciliation Commission....
Over the past two years, the Chinese authorities have repeatedly promised to help trace any children reported to be missing in Xinjiang, to prove that they haven't been forcibly separated from their parents. Those promises have not been met, reports John Sudworth.
The first time China made a...
The UN rights chief has called for concerted action to recover from the worst global deterioration of rights she had seen, highlighting the situation in China, Russia and Ethiopia among others.
“To recover from the most wide-reaching and severe cascade of human rights setbacks in our...
Xinjiang Census, part of China Census 2020, released recently shows China has scaled up the state sponsored repression against Uighurs. Chinese President Xi Jinping had warned Uighurs in 2014 - “We must be as harsh as them and show absolutely no mercy” – says a report by the New York Times...