Uyghur Genocide

The position of Canada and its western allies on the Uyghur genocide is clear. The European Union, United Kingdom, United States, and Canada have not only condemned China for their repression of Uyghur Muslims, but have also imposed active sanctions on China. In recent years, major media...

The Greater Wellington Regional Council is investigating whether the 98 electric buses it is on the verge of leasing were made by Uyghurs in China who were forced into the work. The potential links highlight the challenges in buying goods made in China, where the supply chains are often...

Sayragul Sauytbay escaped Xinjiang to tell of its detention camps. In this extract from her book, she relives a day of horror in a camp ‘classroom’.

Global criticism of the forced labor of Uyghurs is growing, but China’s retaliation against companies standing up against human rights abuses is causing new anxiety for Japanese companies.

UIGHURS and other ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region of China are being subjected to genocide, MPs have declared, in a motion that, although non-binding on the Government, is a significant political milestone, campaigners say. The House of Commons approved a motion calling on the...

America’s leading climate and environmental groups including Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Energy Foundation, and Environmental Defense Fund have not responded to repeated queries about evidence that China is forcing Uyghur Muslims to choose between forced labor at factories which...

One million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities, maybe more, have vanished into a sprawling network of camps and prisons in China's far west. Chinese officials at first denied the camps even existed. Then they claimed they were for training workers, or for re-educating potential radicals. Then...

The last time Jewher Ilham’s family saw her father, he had lost 40 pounds and his hair had turned grey. “He used to be a pretty chubby man and now he has nothing. And all his hair turned grey. But other than that he looked okay. He’s a very strong person, I mean a mentally strong person, or...

China makes headlines for good reason, though often not because of good news. Consider how often today’s challenges have prompted you to reflect on the Middle Kingdom and the pall it casts. In the misty origins of the present pandemic and the deception wrought by the Chinese government to...