Washington, March 8, 2024   WASHINGTON, D.C. –  On Friday, U.S. Congressmen Mike Waltz (FL-06), Ro Khanna (CA-17), and Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Michael McCaul (TX-10) led a bipartisan letter to...
For immediate releaseFebruary 15, 2024, UHRP The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) praises passage of the Uyghur Policy Act, which passed by an overwhelming majority in the US House of Representatives today, and calls for the Senate...
Congressman Nathaniel Moran (TX-01) delivers remarks on his legislation, H.R. 4039, No Dollars to Uyghur Forced Labor Act. By KLTV Digital Media Staff  Feb. 14, 2024  WASHINGTON, D.C. (KLTV/KTRE) - Congressman Nathaniel Moran...
February 1, 2024, HRW BYD, GM, Tesla, Toyota, VW Risk Using Tainted Aluminum (New York) – Global carmakers, including General Motors, Tesla, BYD, Toyota, and Volkswagen, are failing to minimize the risk of Uyghur forced labor being...
Over 5000 students pledge loyalty to the “Motherland” in a July mass ceremony in Hotan, Xinjiang. © Hotan Prefecture state television New Laws Aim to ‘Sinicize’ Places of Worship, Practice in Largely Muslim Xinjiang HRW,...
U.S. Statement at the Universal Periodic Review of the People’s Republic of China 45th Session of the UPR Working Group As Prepared for Delivery by Ambassador Michèle Taylor*   Thank you, Mr. President. We recommend that...
JAN 17, 2024 | PRESS RELEASES Marco Rubio The Chinese Communist Party has repeatedly and unjustly detained American citizens and carried out horrific human rights abuses against the Uyghurs, Tibetans, Hong Kongers, and Chinese human...
PRESS STATEMENT OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON JANUARY 15, 2024 Today marks the tenth year of detention for Uyghur human rights activist Ilham Tohti. Tohti remains in detention simply for advocating for the rights of Uyghurs and other...
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), in cooperation with the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), today petitioned the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) to underscore the serious and...
November 29, 2023 Press Release Washington, DC – Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed the Uyghur Policy Act (H.R. 2766), led by U.S. Representative Young Kim (CA-40) to help the United States take concrete steps to...
International Uyghur Forum - DeclarationOctober 30 - 31, 2023Tokyo, Japan From October 30-31, the International Uyghur Forum (IUF), organised by the Japan-Uyghur Parliamentary Caucus (JUPC), the Japanese parliamentary caucus to...
The International Union of East Turkistan Organizations representing the Muslim Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims of East Turkistan, is deeply concerned and disappointed by an official letter penned down by Dr. Ali Sallabi, assistant...
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) initiated a joint letter from Uyghur organizations urging U.S. Secretary of State Blinken to put the Uyghur genocide front and center in his dialogue with China’s Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, who is...
Joint statement on human rights violations in Xinjiang by the UK and 50 other countries at the UN Third Committee delivered by Ambassador James Kariuki. From:Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and James...
Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) shakes hands with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, April 26, 2019.  © 2019 Andrea Verdelli/AP Photo Secretary-General...
We condemn the reported life sentence handed down by the Government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) following secret court proceedings of Professor Rahile Dawut, an anthropologist and expert on Uyghur folklore and...
The 15th World East Turkistan Brotherhood Forum and the 6th East Turkistan National Unity Council, held in Istanbul from September 22 to September 25, were successfully concluded.    Over 300 individuals from more than 30 countries...
26 September 2023Human Rights Forced separations and language policies for Uyghur and other minority Muslim children at State-run boarding schools in China’s Xinjiang region carry the risk of forced assimilation, three UN independent...
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech in Urumqi, in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, August 26, 2023.  © 2023 Shen Hong/Xinhua via Getty Images Forced Assimilation Continues a Year After Landmark...
Uyghur Muslims protesting against atrocities by China. (File Pic) Washington: Uyghurs, the aborginal Muslim people of  China-occupied East Turkistan, have made an impassioned appeal to the “conscience of the international...