Uyghur Genocide

Xinjiang, a region in Northwest China, produces a fifth of the world’s cotton. Researchers have found that since at least 2018, the Chinese government has coerced upward of 570,000 ethnic minorities to do the grueling work of picking the cotton by hand. This cotton ends up in garments all...

US, UK and Germany urge China to allow UN ‘immediate, unfettered’ access to region amid concerns over Beijing’s treatment of the Uighur minority.

(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...

QIRA, China (Reuters) - The Jiaman mosque in the city of Qira, in the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang, is hidden behind high walls and Communist Party propaganda signs, leaving passersby with no indication that it is home to a religious site. In late April, during the Muslim holy month...

Coercive policies in China's far western region of Xinjiang have led to a sharp decline in birth rates for Uyghurs and other minorities, which could add to evidence of genocide, an Australian think tank said in a report released on Wednesday. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)...

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,...