genocide of Uighurs

Human Rights 02/13/22, 19:38

An International Labour Organization (ILO) committee issues a report on Thursday, Feb. 10, expressing "deep concern" about China's policies in the far western region of Xinjiang, calling them discriminatory and urging Beijing to bring its labor practices into line with global standards. As the first and oldest specialized agency of the ...

South America 12/15/21, 02:13

Two major Uighur activist groups announced that they are preparing a genocide lawsuit against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Argentina because the federal courts of the South American country have already accepted more than one criminal complaint of universal jurisdiction. Even in one of them, a judge requested the ...

China 12/11/21, 15:41

The U.S. imposed broad human rights penalties on dozens of people and entities linked to China, Myanmar, North Korea, and Bangladesh and added Chinese artificial intelligence company SenseTime Group to an investment blacklist. In action commemorating Human Rights Day, Canada and the United Kingdom joined the United States in imposing sanctions ...

China 12/09/21, 14:15

The House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress approved on Wednesday, Dec. 8, a new bill that will force companies importing their products from the Chinese province of Xinjiang, to prove that they did not use slave labor in the framework of the genocide against the Uighurs. Amid tension between the ...

China 11/25/21, 16:17

China's communist mouthpiece strongly criticized a global fashion label for depicting a model whose skin was too dark. The Beijing Daily targeted Christian Dior for depicting a darkly tanned Chinese model, wearing traditional attire and carrying a Lady Dior bag. State-run media claimed the individual had a "gloomy face" and "sinister ...

D.C. 11/15/21, 18:21

A Uighur woman who survived Chinese concentration camps, where the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) imprisons and subjects ethnic and religious minorities to forced labor, called on the NBA to stop prioritizing its business with China and condemn these human rights violations. She also warned player LeBron James not to continue ...

Middle East 10/28/21, 15:59

On Wednesday, Oct. 27, in the central Muslim city of Mecca, Saudi Arabian police arrested Setiwaldi Abdukadir, the father of an Uyghur American politician, for wearing a T-shirt supporting "East Turkestan" and in repudiation of the genocide suffered by minorities in China. His son, Prime Minister Salih Hudayar, known for advocating ...

China 10/24/21, 01:28

Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), joined Rep. Chris Smith,( R-N.J.), in calling on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to relocate the 2022 Winter Olympics from China to another country, and also to ban Chinese athletes from participating. In a letter sent on Thursday, Oct. 21, both Congressmen and leading Republicans on the Congressional-Executive ...

Middle East 08/27/21, 17:10

Uighurs living in Afghanistan are torn between the dangers of living in terror after the Taliban takeover of the country and the potential reprisals they could face in China if extradited because of their status as Chinese migrants. As reported by the BBC, a group of Uighurs they came into contact ...

China 05/29/21, 19:30

The 'prestigious' British medical publication The Lancet published a report praising China's one-child policy with which the Chinese government forced for decades to abort the second child of each family. Furthermore, it assures that the CCP managed to 'lift' millions out of poverty with this perverse practice, ignoring the hundreds ...

China 04/22/21, 16:01

In its 2021 annual report, released April 21, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) called the Chinese regime one of the world's leading "egregious violators" of religious freedom and asserts that conditions in China deteriorated further in 2020. The report, developed by an independent Commission of experts on religion, ...

China 04/03/21, 17:17

Christians in China report suffering routine beatings, indoctrination, and solitary confinement designed to harm them, inflicted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to make them deny their faith. The CCP does not tolerate freedom of worship or conscience and requires clergy to use its platforms to promote the regime's agenda among ...

U.S. 10/27/20, 20:07

The Trump Administration celebrated International Religious Freedom Day with a call to raise awareness of persecution that occurs today of people of faith in different parts of the world, emphasizing the human rights violations perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, highlighted that the United ...

China 09/04/20, 17:24

Renowned British lawyer Sir Geoffrey Nice announced the formation of an independent tribunal on Thursday, Sept. 3, to investigate serious allegations of human rights violations against Uighur Muslim communities in northeast China's Xinjiang region. The investigation, which points to abuses perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), documented since 2017, will ...

China 08/26/20, 10:09

The defense of human rights is an important point on the agenda fro President Donald Trump, and now his team is analyzing the option of accusing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of genocide for its human rights violations of the Uyghur Muslim minority in China. There is much information about the ...