Uyghur Genocide

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...

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...

The U.S. should coordinate a push for a diplomatic boycott the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing if China fails to address reports of genocide in its Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), as well as rights abuses in Tibet and Hong Kong, experts told lawmakers Tuesday. At a joint...

Memet Abdulla, the former chief of the forestry bureau of China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), was detained by national security officers on April 29, 2017, shortly after the launch of a campaign of mass extralegal incarceration that has since seen up to 1.8 million Uyghurs and...

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...

AFTER THE Holocaust, the U.N. General Assembly, meeting in Paris on Dec. 9, 1948, approved the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. It defined genocide as, among other things, “imposing measures intended to prevent births” within a population and said genocide is...

As the daughter of a Uyghur economist imprisoned for life, I call on governments and the UN to act together Jewher Ilham, the daughter of Ilham Tohti, is an author at the Project to Combat Forced Labor at the Worker Rights Consortium. Sophie Richardson is China director at Human Rights Watch...