Blinken says genocide in Xinjiang is ongoing in report ahead of China visit
Washington DC, US Reuters Beijing is continuing to commit genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in its western Xinjiang province, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a report published on Monday, ahead of his planned visit to China this week. The State Department’s annual human rights report, which […]
US sanctions dozens of people worldwide over human rights abuses
Washington DC, USReuters The United States on Friday slapped sanctions on dozens of people over human rights abuses, including Iranian officers it accused of being involved in the targeting of US officials, ahead of Human Rights Day on Sunday. The US Treasury and State Departments imposed sanctions and visa restrictions on 37 people in 13 […]
Essay: Many global corporations will soon have to police up and down their supply chains as EU human rights “due diligence” law nears enactment
RACHEL CHAMBER and DAVID BIRCHALL, in an article first published on The Conversation, look at what the new law means…
China may have committed crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, says UN
Reuters China’s “arbitrary and discriminatory detention” of Uyghurs and other Muslims in the country’s Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity, the outgoing UN human rights chief said in a long-awaited report on Wednesday. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, who has faced criticism from some diplomats and rights groups for being too […]
Beijing Winter Olympics opening ceremony ends with Uyghur skier lighting cauldron
Beijing, ChinaReuters The Beijing Winter Games opened on Friday night in a snow-and-ice themed ceremony at the Bird’s Nest stadium that concluded with the cauldron lit by two young Chinese Olympians, one of them a member of China’s Uyghur minority. During a performance that went longer than scheduled on a frigid night in the Chinese […]
Uighur activists celebrate religious freedom agency’s first Uighur commissioner
RNS House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has appointed prominent Uighur American attorney and activist Nury Turkel to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent religious freedom watchdog agency funded by Congress. Turkel’s appointment has been celebrated widely by Uighur rights activists, who say the move is a clear signal to the Chinese Government that […]
CSW among organisations calling for UN Human Rights Council to establish fact-finding mission into Xinjiang detentions
Religious freedom advocacy CSW has joined more than 15 other organisations in calling for the UN Human Rights Council to adopt a resolution to establish a fact-finding mission to investigate claims of arbitrary mass detentions in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in north-east China. The statement, which was also signed by Amnesty International and Human Rights […]