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Dozens of New Xinjiang-Europe cargo routes raise forced labour concerns
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Over the past year, China's Xinjiang province has seen the launch of more than 40 new freight routes to Europe, moving thousands of tons of goods, according to Politico. The expansion comes despite ongoing accusations that Beijing is committing human rights abuses and using forced labour aga
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Bangkok Arts and Cultural Centre censors Tibetan, Uyghur works after Chine
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The works that were removed were part of an exhibition titled Constellation of Complicity: Visualising the Global Machinery of Authoritarian Solidarity, which featured ten artists and was curated by the Myanmar Peace Museum.
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UK faces pressure to ban imports linked to Uyghur forced labour in green t
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
According to the submission, reviewed and cited extensively by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), the UK's efforts to diversify supply chains for critical minerals, vital to the green energy transition, must be underpinned by a clear human rights framework.
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Kmart faces Federal Court action over alleged links to Uyghur Forced Labou
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
A Uyghur group in Australia is suing Kmart, alleging links to forced labour in China's Xinjiang region. The case seeks proof of Kmart's ethical sourcing claims, as critics highlight gaps in Australia's Modern Slavery Act. Kmart denies wrongdoing, citing its long-standing Ethical Sourcing Pro
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Uyghur groups welcome US Bill to sanction perpetrators of ongoing genocide
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Five Uyghur rights groups in Washington welcomed the bipartisan Uyghur Genocide Accountability and Sanctions Act, which targets Chinese officials and entities linked to repression, forced labour, and organ harvesting, and urges swift passage to hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable an
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World Uyghur Congress welcomes US Senate bills targeting China's rights ab
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
As stated in the release from WUC, these bills, introduced by Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), John Cornyn (R-TX), John Curtis (R-UT), and Dan Sullivan (R-AK), represent a rare and essential agreement in Congress regarding the pressing need for a firmer U.S. response to China's domestic and int
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Former Chinese Communist official tied to Uyghur Genocide arrested in US C
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
A former high-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official with deep ties to the regime, which is responsible for the ongoing genocide of Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities, was found to be at the centre of a child abuse investigation in Arcadia, California, as per The Daily Caller News
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World Uyghur Congress highlights global pushback against China's Uyghur re
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The brief pointed to increased political engagement in the UK, legal advancements in Argentina, and mounting concern over forced labour linked to European imports.
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Cross-party US lawmakers launch Uyghur Genocide Accountability Act against
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
In a bipartisan push to hold the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) accountable for its ongoing human rights atrocities, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chair and Co-Chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), have introduced the Uyghur Geno
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Argentina court opens door to justice against China's Uyghur genocide
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Argentina's top criminal court has allowed a genocide case against Chinese officials to proceed, brought by Uyghur victims. The ruling, based on universal jurisdiction, offers hope for justice over alleged abuses in Xinjiang, including mass detentions and torture, and could set a global prec
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Uyghur abuse hidden in cargo? Chinese flights to Europe raise human rights
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Chinese cargo flights to Europe are under scrutiny over concerns they may be linked to forced labour involving Uyghurs. Rights groups fear goods made through abuse in Xinjiang could be reaching global markets undetected.
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'Uyghur lives traded for cotton, solar panels': China's crimes against hum
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Over the past decade, China has escalated a brutal campaign of systematic repression against the Uyghur people, an indigenous Turkic Muslim group native to the region known as Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or East Turkestan.
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