Rights advocate tells UN forum Beijing's new ethnic unity law strengthens state control over language, religion and cultural identity of Uyghurs and other minorities
Muslim Network TV — July 17, 2026
GENEVA, Switzerland (MNTV) — A prominent Uyghur rights activist has accused China of using a newly enacted ethnic unity law to deepen the forced assimilation of Uyghurs, Tibetans and other...
2026-07-18 :Date
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2026-07-16 :Date
NEW YORK — The United Nations General Assembly convened for a crucial plenary session to address the international responsibility to prevent genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. However, as Priyanka Shankar highlights in an...
2026-07-10 :Date
Issue 27: June 15 – July 8, 2026, UHRP
Welcome to the twenty-seventh issue of the Uyghur Reader, a biweekly content roundup curated by the staff of the Uyghur Human Rights Project.
Each issue features carefully selected articles,...
2026-07-10 :Date
July 8, 2026 | The Strategist | By Elijah Pockell-Wilson
Australia is leaving its market exposed to goods tied to Uyghur forced labour. As the United States and European Union move to block such goods, countries with weaker import...
2026-07-09 :Date
Representatives of Hong Kong, Uyghur, Tibetan, and Southern Mongolian groups protest China's newly enacted Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, July 1 in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo. (©Sankei/Shimpei Okuhara)
Shimpei Okuhara...
2026-07-07 :Date
Representative Image (File Photo/Reuters)
Munich [Germany], July 5 (ANI): The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) has released its weekly brief highlighting its international advocacy efforts, using major global platforms in Japan and Europe to draw attention to what it describes as Beijing's...
2026-07-06 :Date
Images of the 2009 repression. From X.
Seventeen years after the tragedy, the questions still matter. A Uyghur view.
by Asiye Uyghur | Jul 3, 2026 | Op-eds China| Bitter Winter
Seventeen years have passed since the July...
2026-07-03 :Date
For immediate release
July 3, 2026, UHRP
Seventeen years after Chinese security forces violently suppressed Uyghur demonstrators in Ürümchi, the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) calls on the Chinese government to account for those...
2026-07-03 :Date
Since language is inseparable from cultural and religious identity to the Uyghur, Tibetan, and Mongolian communities, China’s requirement that they adopt Mandarin in school education and public institutions under its new law strikes at...
2026-07-02 :Date
Left to right, Lord David Alton, Jim Glennon MP, Sir Iain Duncan Smith (addressing the round table members) and Rahima Mahmut. Photo by Ruth Ingram.
Activists and campaigners pool resources to see the scourge of Uyghur forced labor...
2026-07-01 :Date
U.S. lawmakers from both parties have raised alarm over China’s new ethnic unity law, warning it could further restrict religious and cultural freedoms of Tibetans and Uighurs. The concerns follow similar criticism from the European Parliament, putting renewed international focus on Beijing’s...
2026-07-01 :Date
Uyghur Muslims in a market in Xinjiang, China
June 30, 2026, By Ashu Mann, Eurasia Review
The Chinese Communist Party’s founding on July 1, 1921, established ideological conformity as a non-negotiable demand...
2026-07-01 :Date
GENEVA — Tibetan and Uyghur representatives urged countries at a United Nations meeting last week to pressure China to repeal a new law they say is aimed at erasing minority communities.
The Ethnic Unity and...
2026-06-30 :Date
In this Jul. 13, 2024 file photo, a Uyghur protester at the White House calls for a boycott against China for its mistreatment and confinement of the Uyghur people. Credit: Phil Pasquini/Shutterstock
After a disappointing Trump-Xi...
2026-06-28 :Date
Habiba Sardar
LeadPakistan - June 28, 2026
In modern world politics, China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has become one of the most disputed and sensitive debate. The constraints imposed by Chinese policies on Uyghur Muslim...
2026-06-28 :Date
Dolkun Isa, President of the Uyghur Centre for Democracy (Photo/ANI)
Geneva [Switzerland], June 25 (ANI): Dolkun Isa, President of the Uyghur Centre for Democracy, has called on the international community to take stronger action against China over its treatment of Uyghurs, warning that Beijing...
2026-06-27 :Date
Critics point to unanswered questions, lack of transparency, broader political context surrounding Uyghur refugees
Muslim Network TV—June 23, 2026
BANGKOK, Thailand (MNTV) — The conclusion of Thailand’s decade-long pursuit of...
2026-06-26 :Date
Geneva [Switzerland], June 24 (ANI): The Chinese government's treatment of Uyghur women and families came under international scrutiny at the 62nd Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), where the World Uyghur...
2026-06-25 :Date
SUMMARY: The Save Uyghur Campaign welcomes the United States Senate’s condemnation of China’s communist leader Xi Jinping, who has overseen a regime of mass incarceration and surveillance and forced labor over Muslims in the...
2026-06-24 :Date
For immediate release
June 23, 2026, UHRP
A new report released today by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) finds that Australia and Japan remain vulnerable to imports linked to Uyghur forced labor, creating opportunities for...
2026-06-23 :Date
