Human Rights, Freedom and Solidarity
Nouse. 15 April 2021
Below is an article published by Nouse. Photo:Leif Harboe.
In an age of fast fashion and even faster news, staying ‘woke’ presents itself as an exhausting task. A topic that isn’t just another uninformed marketing faux pas, the issue of forced labour in Xinjiang involves one million people and demands everyone’s attention.
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Middle East Monitor. 12 April 2021
Below is an article published by The Middle East Monitor. Photo:ZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images.
It is a fact that rape and sexual abuse have been used as weapons of war throughout history. The lack of security leaves women and girls, in particular, more vulnerable than usual to violence. For a long time, this was just accepted as inevitable in conflicts, and few efforts were made to prosecute perpetrators of mass rapes and sexual violence. We saw this in Bosnia in the 1990s where, for example, the UNHCR reported that 50,000 women were raped by Bosnian Serbs as a war tactic.
Read moreThe Washington Post. 12 April 2021
Below is an article published by The Washington Post. Photo:Emrah Gurel/AP.
The Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of the Uyghur people will go down in history as one of the worst human rights tragedies of our time — not just for the abject horror of targeting a population of 11 million for genocide, but also for the advanced technologies that enabled it.
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Financial Times. 12 April 2021
Below is an article published by Financial Times. Photo:Sedat Suna/EPA/Shutterstock.
Ankara has summoned China’s ambassador over a tweet that targeted Turkish politicians critical of the treatment of the country’s Uyghur minority, in a rare show of displeasure with Beijing. The Chinese embassy said it had “a right to respond” after Meral Aksener, chair of the centre-right Good party, and Mansur Yavas, mayor of Ankara, wrote tweets commemorating a 1990 Uyghur uprising in the Chinese region of Xinjiang. A tweet from the embassy’s official account, tagging the Turkish politicians, said it “opposes and violently condemns any sort of challenge to Chinese sovereignty and territorial integrity by any person or power”.
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Human Rights Watch. 8 April 2021
Below is an article published by Human Rights Watch. Photo:AP.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is hoping the Chinese government will grant UN experts unrestricted access to detention centers in Xinjiang where over a million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims have faced torture and myriad other human rights abuses. But he should make clear to Beijing that an investigation can take place with or without access.
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The Guardian. 23 April 2021
Below is an article published by The Guardian. Photo:Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock.
British MPs voted to declare that China is committing genocide against the Uyghur people in Xinjiang province.
The motion passed on Thursday does not compel the government to act but is likely to mark a further decline in relations with China. In response, Beijing’s embassy in the UK accused the MPs of having “cooked up” the motion “with a view to discrediting and attacking China”.
Read morePosted on April 22, 2021, in Campaigns Human Rights Issues London Office News Our Work Press Release WHAT’S NEW
Press Release – For Immediate Release
22 April 2021
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) applauds the unanimous passing of the genocide motion in the British House of Commons today. By voting in favour of the motion, British MPs have taken a strong position that underscores that the UK cannot sit in silence whilst national parliaments around the world are debating this exact question.
Read morePosted on March 31, 2021, in Conference News Other News Reports WHAT’S NEW World Uyghur Congress WUC Activities
World Uyghur Congress, 01 December 2019
On December 10th, International Human Rights Day, the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), in cooperation with the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO), held a successful media training workshop for Uyghur activists and a day-long conference entitled ‘The Uyghur Crisis: China’s Laboratory for Rights Abuses’ in Brussels, Belgium.
Read morePosted on February 18, 2021, in News Our Work Reports WHAT’S NEW World Uyghur Congress WUC Activities
World Uyghur Congress, 01 November 2019
Congress (WUC) along with the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), the Uyghur American Association (UAA), and the Central Asia Program at George Washington University held a two-day conference:, ‘Confronting Atrocities in China: The Global Response to the Uyghur Crisis’.
Read morePosted on July 17, 2018, in News Reports WHAT’S NEW World Uyghur Congress
World Uyghur Congress, 17 July 2018
The World Uyghur Congress submitted a Parallel Report for consideration by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination for China’s review in August 2018. The report is a comprehensive overview of China’s discriminatory treatment of the Uyghur population in East Turkistan – particularly since China’s previous CERD review in 2009.
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