Concentration Camps

On a brisk morning 20 years ago, I was walking home to my house in Lower Roxbury. The date was Sept. 11, 2001.  As soon as I entered my house’s front door, my landline phone rang. It was one of my friends studying in Japan who made the long-distance call. Watching the international news from...

95% of solar panels rely on polysilicon; 45% of the world’s polysilicon comes from Uyghur Region in China known for atrocious human rights violations The four largest solar panel suppliers in the world all source from companies using forced labour WORLDWIDE – Today, the Coalition to End...

Gathered by the U.S., UK, and Germany, 18 countries vowed to break the United Nations’ silence on the Uyghur genocide.

(UNITED NATIONS) — Human rights groups and Western nations led by the United States, Britain and Germany accused China of massive crimes against the Uyghur minority and demanded unimpeded access for U.N. experts at a virtual meeting on Wednesday denounced by China as “politically motivated” and...

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,...

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...

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...

San Francisco: Seven companies supplying device components, coatings and assembly services to Apple have been linked to alleged forced labour involving Uighurs and other oppressed minorities in China, The Information reported. Working with two human rights groups, the publication identified...