- Human Rights Foundation aims to raise awareness of plight of Uyghurs in China
A top nonprofit has beamed striking images onto buildings during New York Fashion week to shame the clothing industry for using Uyghur labor.
The Human Rights Foundation beamed the stark black, white and pink images onto the size of the New Museum in Manhattan, Brooklyn Bridge and a Hyatt hotel in Midtown for their Discounted Lives Campaign.
One showed a classic white t-shirt emblazoned with the phrase '1 in 5 cotton garments are linked to Uyghur forced labor.'
Another showed the headshots of eight Uyghur men and women who suffered horrific abuse including forced sterilization, arbitrary detention, rape and religious persecution.
China currently has one million people in its Uyghur detention camps. Uyghurs are a Turkic ethic group who are native to the Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China, which the CCP refers to as the Xinjiang region.
They speak their own language - similar to Turkish - and consider themselves to be culturally-closer to Central Asian nations than China.
An image projected onto the side of the New Museum in NYC highlights the use of forced Uyghur labor to produce a fifth of the world's cotton cltohing
Another image on the same building highlights the horrifying number of Uyghurs - one million - kept in concentration camps
The Human Rights Foundation's Discounted Lives campaign aims to raise awareness of Uyghur persecution
