Author: DUK Vakfı

Euroactiv. 8 November 2021

Below is an article published by Euroactiv. Photo:EPA-EFE/MOHAMMED BADRA.

The European Commission’s proposed mandatory Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence laws and a forced labour ban are two powerful instruments that need to be executed effectively to successfully address Uyghur forced labour, write Koen Stoop and Helene de Rengerve.

As international pressure mounts on China to end its incarceration and mistreatment of millions of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Turkic people in East Turkistan, the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) will gather in Prague, Czech Republic, from November 12-14, 2021 for the world’s largest meeting of Uyghurs in the diaspora.

More than 200 Uyghur delegates from over 25 countries will gather in the Czech capital to elect the organization’s leadership for the next three years. Delegates to the 7th General Assembly will be joined by representatives from other communities, civil society, Parliament members and national governments, as well as leading academics and legal experts, to reflect on recent developments of the Uyghur genocide.

RFA. 3 November 2021

Below is an article published by RFA. Photo:AFP.

Lockdowns are spreading in China amid a surge in coronavirus infections that have seen around 500 people diagnosed in at least 17 provinces, with authorities restricting travel and warning people to stockpile food and other supplies.

RFA. 3 November 2021

Below is an article published by RFA. Photo:Photo courtesy of Ghopur Ebey.

The brothers of a Uyghur based in the Netherlands have been arrested by authorities in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region for contacting a sibling abroad deemed a “terrorist” during officially sanctioned phone calls, officials confirmed to RFA.

Coda Story. 2 November 2021

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Vicky Xiuzhong Xu, 27, is a writer, researcher and stand-up comedian living in Australia. Her work has been instrumental in exposing the scale of China’s forced labor program in Xinjiang, where Uyghurs are corralled into heavily guarded compounds to work in factories under prison-like conditions. She became a key propaganda target for Chinese authorities, who have denounced her as a national traitor, after her research on human rights abuses was published by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).

CBC. 29 October 2021

Below is an article published by CBC. Photo:Caitlin Taylor/CBC.

Canadian consumers who purchase popular tomato pastes, sauces and ketchups may actually be buying products harvested and manufactured by Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities under oppressive working conditions in China, according to a CBC Marketplace investigation.

RFA. 29 October 2021

Below is an article published by RFA. Photo:AFP.

China’s 50th anniversary of membership in the United Nations, celebrated this week with a speech by President Xi Jinping claiming that Beijing had “blazed a path in human rights development,” has generated more despair than hope for Tibetans and Uyghurs on the receiving end of Chinese policies, advocates said.

The Guardian. 29 October 2021

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Legislators from around the world have gathered on the fringes of the G20 summit in Rome to protest against the presence of the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, and urge leaders not to let China off the hook over human rights abuses in return for Beijing’s cooperation on the climate crisis.

Bitter Winter. 28 October 2021

Below is an article published by Bitter Winter. Photo:AP.

Following Beijing’s unilateral decision to suspend the custom of traditional torch relays around the world to herald its hosting of the Winter Olympics, Jewish and human rights groups across Europe and in Tel Aviv took it upon themselves to hold simultaneous relays with a difference, to protest what they are dubbing, the “genocide games” taking place on Chinese soil.

Politco. 26 October 2021

Below is an article published by Politco. Photo: Getty Images.

For decades, German industry — an early mover in the Chinese market — looked the other way amid Beijing’s human rights abuses, as managers and engineers from the likes of Siemens and Volkswagen helped transform the country into Germany’s largest trading partner. But as Chinese leader Xi Jinping tightens the country’s surveillance state, threatens neighbors and takes on an increasingly belligerent tone with the West, Germany’s China strategy, shaped to serve the needs of its export industry, is looking increasingly unsustainable.