🎙️ Upcoming UHRP Event (Chinese language) This year marks the 3rd anniversary of the finding of genocide by the #Uyghur Tribunal on December 9, 2021, and the 76th anniversary of the Genocide Convention. Every year, Uyghurs around the world commemorate this day as the day that Uyghur Genocide has been recognized by an independent tribunal. Join us on Tuesday, December 10, 2024 from 10:00–11:00 a.m. EST for a Chinese language discussion of the importance of the Uyghur Tribunal's determination, and what steps should be taken to hold China accountable. More details: https://lnkd.in/e-kdQivt
Uyghur Human Rights Project
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Promoting human rights and democracy for the Uyghur people.
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The Uyghur Human Rights Project promotes the rights of the Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim peoples in East Turkistan, referred to by the Chinese government as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, through research-based advocacy. We publish reports and analysis in English and Chinese to defend Uyghurs’ civil, political, social, cultural, and economic rights according to international human rights standards. We publish reports and analysis, in English and Chinese, to defend Uyghurs’ civil, political, social, cultural, and economic rights according to international human rights standards. We also submit reports and policy recommendations to governments and multilateral bodies like the UN and EU. We have released more than 80 reports and briefings as well as 400+ statements and press releases since 2004. Our research has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, Washington Post, Associated Press, Reuters, Radio Free Asia, Deutsche Welle, and many other outlets. Our op-eds and commentary have been published in Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The Diplomat, The Independent, EU Observer, Hong Kong Free Press, and the LA Review of Books, among other outlets. Our staff and board have testified before parliament in the UK, Canada, Australia, and the EU as well as the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, the US Senate Human Rights Caucus, US Congressional Executive Commission on China (CECC), the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), the US Congressional International Religious Freedom Caucus, and the Uyghur Tribunal.
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Employees at Uyghur Human Rights Project
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Louisa Greve
Human Rights Advocacy | Strategic Planning
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Zubayra Shamseden
Chinese Outreach Coordinator at Uyghur Human Rights Project
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Dr. Justin Jon Rudelson
Learning Support Specialist at Akiba Yavneh Academy of Dallas, Texas
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Peter Irwin
Associate Director for Research and Advocacy at Uyghur Human Rights Project
Updates
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The Uyghur Human Rights Project is glad to be at the #UNForumBHR with other allies like Anti-Slavery International, the Uyghur American Association, and Campaign for Uyghurs—as well as with the Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region. We are working to end Uyghur forced labor, and to ensure that the green transition is just and sustainable, respecting workers’ and human rights.
We're at the #UN Forum on Business and Human Rights! Together with partners and allies such as Elfidar Iltebir UYGHUR AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INC , Uyghur Human Rights Project and Campaign for Uyghurs, we want to ensure that the green transition is just and sustainable, respecting workers’ and human rights. That is why we are standing side by side, calling on governments and businesses to make sure that industries such as solar and electric vehicles do not rely on Uyghur forced labour. Hear more about what we are doing in Geneva from Uyghur allies ⬇️ and make sure to connect if you are here. #UNForumBHR
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The Uyghur Human Rights Project is at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights this week in 🇺🇳 Geneva with partners to call attention to Uyghur forced labor + to urge businesses to extricate supply chains from the Uyghur Region. #UNForumBHR #BizHumanRights UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights
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UHRP's Tashken Davlet spoke at an event this week held by the Rotary Club of Taipei Choumei to speak about the Uyghur genocide, UHRP's research, and what the international community can do to respond.
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⚡ Critical piece by Nyrola Elimä & Ben Mauk in The New York Times Magazine on Uyghurs who fled China, those still languishing in Thai detention since 2014, and threats from transnational repression. 🔸 "According to a 2023 [Uyghur Human Rights Project] report, the agency is often 'unable to provide meaningful protection to Uyghur refugees.'" 🔸 "As many as 1,000 are waiting for the results of their asylum applications, according to UHRP." 🔸 “Uyghurs aren’t really safe anywhere,” Peter Irwin, a researcher with UHRP, says. https://lnkd.in/dfXMw_Uk
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At the opening of World Travel Market (WTM) London, the 🇨🇳 China National Tourist Office organized an event featuring dancers in Uyghur dress performing "Lift your veil, Xinjiang is a good place"—while China continues to commit atrocities against Uyghurs. UK travel company, Trotting Soles Travel Ltd, attended the event, along with other representatives attending the WTM. Do these representatives know what's happening in the Uyghur region? Sunita Sindhwani Ramanand
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📍 Uyghur Human Rights Project at 🇺🇳 #UNGA79 UHRP's Peter Irwin attended the #UNGA79 Third Committee in October—part of our ongoing efforts to ensure member states hold China accountable for atrocities.
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Next week, the World Travel Market (WTM) London will host a booth promoting tourism to the Uyghur region—where genocide + crimes against humanity is ongoing. WTM, which touts itself as "the most influential travel and tourism event globally,” will host a booth organized by China's regional tourism bureau, a department of the regional government. How can WTM justify promoting travel to the Uyghur region in this context? Does tourism there fit within the Cape Town Declaration on Responsible Tourism, which WTM ostensibly abides by?
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UHRP Chinese Outreach Coordinator, Zubayra Shamseden, joined Uyghur colleagues this week at Renew Democracy Initiative #fofcon24 to discuss the Uyghur issue and to counter #TransnationalRepression. Abduweli Ayup Rushan Abbas Kasim Kashgar
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New UHRP Insights 💡 "The Travel Industry Is Normalizing Crimes Against Humanity" UHRP Research Director Henryk Szadziewski, PhD argues that international travel fairs cannot claim ignorance of atrocities in the Uyghur Region while exhibitors promote travel there. From November 5–7, 2024, the Uyghur region's government culture/tourism office will exhibit "the most magical charm of Xinjiang" at World Travel Market (WTM) London. WTM London describes itself as "the most influential travel and tourism event globally." Should WTM London be promoting tourism to a region where crimes against humanity and genocide are ongoing? https://lnkd.in/ebfMqbcb
The Travel Industry Is Normalizing Crimes Against Humanity - Uyghur Human Rights Project
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