Adopted in Berlin, Germany – Nov 14th, 2025
We, the undersigned organizations, human rights defenders, women’s rights
advocates, and civil society partners, convene in Berlin during the International
Uyghur Women’s Dialogue to issue this Declaration to governments, the United
Nations, civil society, women’s movements, and all people of conscience,
affirming that the protection of Uyghur women in East Turkistan is a shared global
responsibility.
Asserting that the root cause of all suffering endured by Uyghur women since
China's occupation of East Turkistan in 1949 and intensifying since China's
genocidal policy began in late 2016;
Reaffirming that thirty years after the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for
Action, China has failed to uphold the commitments it endorsed to protect and
promote Chinese women’s human rights, equality, and dignity, and thus logically
even less so those of Uyghur women as colonial subjects;
Acknowledging that despite the Beijing Platform for Action’s global commitment
to advance women’s rights, China has exploited its discourse of “progress” to mask
severe human rights abuses, including the persecution of Uyghur women and
destruction of families;
Recalling that states are legally bound under the Genocide Convention, the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women,
the Convention Against Torture, and core human rights treaties to act once they
know, or should have known, of a serious risk of genocide;
Uyghur women endure a state system designed to erode their basic rights and sever
the continuity of their people. Through forced sterilization, forced abortions,
mandatory IUDs, the criminalization of “illegal births,” and forced marriages of
the Uyghur women to Han Chinese men, Chinese authorities have caused an
unprecedented collapse in Uyghur birth rates. Survivors of detention describesexualized torture, humiliation, and invasive procedures performed without
consent. Mass detention in concentration camps has fractured families, placing a
million Uyghur children in state-run institutions where they are denied their
language, faith, and cultural identity. Uyghur women religious leaders and
intellectuals have been detained and received lengthy sentences on fabricated
charges, with no due process.
Technology has intensified repression. Biometric collection, algorithmic “risk
scoring,” and pervasive surveillance monitor women’s movements, beliefs, and
reproductive status. Many Uyghur women are compelled into forced labor under
conditions that restrict their mobility and family life. Simultaneously, the
destruction of cultural and religious sites and the suppression of the Uyghur
language have severed women from the traditions that sustain their identity.
These violations extend beyond borders. Uyghur women in exile face transnational
repression, threats to their families, harassment, and intimidation. Many endure
grief and fear without pathways for justice, safety, or reunification.
Warning that the sharp decline in Uyghur birth rates, driven by forced sterilization,
IUDs, and other coercive reproductive controls, reflects acts of genocide under
international law; Recognizing that the Beijing Platform for Action failed to
anticipate state-led systems using reproductive control, family separation,
surveillance, and mass detention to achieve state-sponsored demographic erasure;
Recalling the findings of the 2022 United Nations OHCHR Assessment, the
Concluding Observations of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in May 2023, survivor testimonies,
leaked PRC documents, academic reports and numerous parliamentary resolutions
that have exposed systematic atrocity crimes crimes against Uyghur women;
Affirming that the dignity rights of Uyghur women are inseparable from the
survival of their nation, families, communities, and cultural and national identity;
We adopt the Berlin Declaration Platform for Action on Uyghur Women’s Rights.
Vision and Guiding PrinciplesThe Berlin Declaration affirms that Uyghur women in East Turkistan have the right
to physical integrity and freedom over their own bodies, the right to have and raise
children, family unity, cultural survival, safety, justice, and freedom. Global
women’s-rights frameworks must explicitly recognize that states can be
perpetrators of violations against women. Chinese colonialism is responsible for
the tragic and dangerous situation of Uyghur women.
Uyghur women’s bodies must not be controlled or violated as part of Beijing’s
colonial genocide against Uyghurs. The Chinese government’s separation of
Uyghur mothers and children destroys families, erases culture, and uses
surveillance to dominate women’s lives. Uyghur women, in their homeland and
exile, have shown remarkable resilience and leadership. Their voices must shape
policy, advocacy, and the global women’s rights agenda. Protecting Uyghur
women’s rights strengthens international standards by confronting state-driven,
technology-enabled persecution still unaddressed by existing frameworks.
The Berlin Platform for Action on Uyghur Women’s Rights and Freedom seeks to
close the structural gaps that have allowed the persecution of Uyghur women to
continue.
To give effect to these principles and confront the ongoing genocide, we issue
the following calls to the international community:
- States must recognize the targeted suppression of Uyghur births as a central
component of the genocide and confront it through decisive diplomatic,
political, and legal measures. Governments must work to end coercive
reproductive practices and restore Uyghur women’s basic rights.
- We urge the United Nations to create mechanisms capable of investigating
the persecution of Uyghur women, including state-imposed reproductive
oppression and sexual violence. Torture and abuse in detention facilities
must be halted, and survivor-centered pathways for justice, accountability,
and long-term support must be established. Efforts to trace disappeared
children and reunite families are urgently needed.
- We call on women’s rights organizations worldwide to center Uyghur
women in their advocacy and recognize their struggle as a defining
women’s-rights issue of this era. Advancing the rights of Uyghur womenstrengthens the global women’s-rights agenda by confronting forms of
persecution that existing frameworks have not fully addressed. Their
experience demands intersectional analysis, accountability for state-driven
discrimination, and action on emerging threats such as surveillance-enabled
repression.
- Technology companies and governments must end all complicity in the
surveillance systems used to target Uyghur women. Digital and biometric
technologies used to monitor women’s movements, beliefs, and reproductive
status require urgent global scrutiny.
- Forced labor involving Uyghur women must be addressed through rigorous
enforcement of import bans, transparent supply chains, and accountability
for corporations benefiting from or enabling these abuses.
- Democratic states must provide pathways to asylum, family reunification,
legal protections, and mental-health support. Uyghur women’s perspectives
must be integrated into feminist movements, human-rights campaigns, and
decision-making spaces where they have been systematically excluded.
- States must recognize that all this suffering endured by Uyghur women is the
result of a colonial policy that has persisted since the colonization of East
Turkistan by the People's Republic of China in late 1949.
- The Uyghur Diaspora will continue expanding an Uyghur Women’s
Network as a global platform for advocacy, solidarity, and leadership to
elevate survivors’ voices and strengthen cooperation among women’s-rights
defenders worldwide.
Upholding the rights of Uyghur women is essential to building a women’s-rights
framework that is truly universal, intersectional, and capable of confronting the
most complex and technologically enabled forms of repression and fight for
freedom. The international community has a legal, moral, and historical obligation
to act.
The Berlin Declaration Platform for Action on Uyghur Women’s Rights and
Freedom stands as a call to conscience and a framework for meaningful change.
The protection of Uyghur women, and the survival of their nation, families,
national identity, and their rights to self-determination, requires nothing less. The
Uyghur women’ rights will be only granted in free and independent East Turkistan.Signed by: (Organization)
(Organizations and Individual names are listed alphabetically)
- Alberta Uyghur Association
- Alliance for Citizens Rights
- Ana Care Education
- Australian Uyghur Association
- Australian Uyghur Tangritagh Women's Association
- Austria Uyghur Association
- Belgium Uyghur Association
- Campaign For Uyghurs
- Center for Uyghur Studies
China Aid
- Dutch Uyghur Human Rights Foundation
Darul Iman Association
East Turkistan Association of Canada
East Turkistan Federation
East Turkistan Research Foundation
East Turkistan Science and Enlightenment Foundation
Eastern Turkistan Foundation
East Turkistan People’s Unity Association
East Turkestan Media and Publishing Service Association
East Turkistan Union in Europe
East Turkestan Union of Muslim Scholars
European Uyghur Institute
Fédération des Pays Asiatiques pour les Droits Humains ( France)
Federation of Women Associations of Turkiye
Finnish Uyghur Culture Center
German Islam Academy
Hoca Ahmet Yesevi Science and lore Foundation
Ili Mashrap Foundation
Institute of China Studies of Uyghur Academy
International Pen Uyghur Center
Ireland Uyghur Cultural Association
Isa Yusup Alptekin Foundation
Japan Uyghur Association
Justice 4 Uyghurs35.
Knowledge and Service Solidarity and Cooperation Association
Kutadgu Bilig Institute of Uyghur Academy
Lhakar France
Norwegian Uyghur Committee
Muslim for Muslims International
Stop Uyghur Genocide
Sweden Uyghur Union
Swiss Uyghur Association
Sydney Uyghur Women’s Group
Taklamakan Uyghur Publish House
The Campaign for Hong Kong
Turkiye Uyghur NGO Platform
Uyghur Society “Ittipak” of the Kyrgyz Republic
Uyghur Academy (International)
Uyghur Academy Australia
Uyghur Academy Canada
Uyghur Academy Europe
Uyghur Academy Eurasia
Uyghur Academy Foundation
Uyghur Academy Japan
Uyghur Academy USA
Uyghur Association of Victoria
Uyghur Center for Human Rights and Democracy
Uyghur Cultural and Education Union in Germany
Uyghur European Cultural Centre
Uyghur Freedom Institute
Uyghur Higher Education Committee of Uyghur Academy
Uyghur Human Rights Project
Uyghur Mother Language Committee of Uyghur Academy
Uyghur PEN Center
Uyghur Projects Foundation
Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project
Uyghur Refugee Relief Fund
Uyghur Research Institute
Uyghur Science and Civilization Research Foundation
Uyghur Science and Education Foundation
Uyghur Support Group Netherlands72.
Uyghur U.K. Association
Uyghur Youth Union in Kazakhstan
- Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
- World Uyghur Congress
- World Uyghur Congress Foundation
Forum For Human Rights
ShiwitsariyeUyghur Jemiyiti
Solidarité Chine France
National Council
For Canadian Muslims
Swiss Uyghur Association
- Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR, Comité Vietnam pour la
défense des droits de l’Homme)
Individuals:
- Abdukhelil Yunussov (Kazakhstan)
- Abdulhakim Idris (USA)
- Abdulhamit Karahan (Turkiye)
- Abdulkerim Bugra ( Turkiye)
- Abdymezhid Turdiyev (Sweden)
- Ahmedjan Kasim (Netherlands)
- Akbar Yusup (France)
- Alim Seytoff (USA)
- Alishir Zordinov (Kazakhstan)
- Antje Schippmann (Germany)
- Arkin Akhmetov (Kazakhstan)
- Asiye Uyghur (Netherlands)
- Ayyuce Türkes (Turkish MP)
- Aziz Akhmetov (Kazakhstan)
Baihetinisha Abudureyimu (Sweden)
Bakhtishat Mametbakiyev (Kazakhstan)
Bakhtiya Sayuzov (Kazakhstan)
Barat Achinuq (UK)
Canan Güllũ (Turkiye)
Dilnara Kassymova (Kazakhstan)
Dilzat Damian (Australia)
Doğan Bekin (Turkish MP)23.
Dolkun Isa (Germany)
Dolunay Tanrıdağlı
Dr. Dilnur Reyhan (France)
Dr. Erkin Sidick (USA)
Dr. Memet Emin (USA)
Dr. Rishat Abbas (USA)
Dunyazat Ghayrat (AUS)
Ekber Tursun (Belgium)
Efrat Machikawa (Israel)
Ekrem Hezim (Germany)
Elfidar Iltebir (USA)
Endili Memetkerim (Switzerland)
Erkin Abliz (USA)
Erkin Alptekin (Germany)
Erkin Berdas (UK)
Erkin Zunun (Germany)
Evgenia Kara-Murza (USA-Russia)
Farminzhan Taipov (Kazakhstan)
Fawzia Valiyff (AUS)
Gheyret Atush (Canada)
Gulbahar Haitiwaji (France)
Gulbakhar Jalilova (France)
Gulistan Zunun (Australia)
Gulmira Derbas (UK)
Gulmire Zunun (Australia)
Gulnar Eziz Yulghun (USA)
Gulnisa Nazarova (USA)
Gulshat Udun (Canada)
Gulshen Abdukadir ( Canada)
Gülzadem Tanrıdağli
Gunsham Amettova (Canada)
Halimah Valiyff (Australia)
Helchem Mamatimin (Norway)
Husainova Nargis (Sweden)
Ilshat Hesen (USA)
Iptihar Abduréshit (Germany)
Inamzhan Askarov (Kazakhstan)60.
Iveta Vancáková (Czech Republic)
Jt Pinna (USA)
Jured Abdukerim (Australia)
Kakharman Kozhamberdiyev (Kazakhstan)
Kalbinur Sidik (Netherlands)
Kamilnur Abdukerim (Australia)
Kewser Kamil (Canada)
Kewser Kamil (Canada)
Kutay Kurash (Sweden)
Leopoldo Lopez (Spain-Venezuela)
Lillian Tintori (Spain-Venezuela)
Maira Aisaeva (UK)
Malikazat Ghayrat (AUS)
Mamatjan Mahmut (Sweden)
Marie Holzman (France)
Masih Alinejad (USA-Iran)
Mehliya Cetinkaya (Canada)
Mehmet Celepci (Australia)
Menguy Céline (France)
Mestura Bora (Australia)
Møminjan Rahmanjan (Norway)
Mukerrem Qurban (Canada)
Munevver Ozturk (Turkiye)
Musina Maimaitijiang (Sweden)
Mustafa Emir Turan
Mutellip Qurban (USA)
Nabijan Ala (Sweden)
Nargiz Husainova (Sweden)
Nuria Zyden (Ireland)
Omer Kanat (USA)
Omer Kul (Turkiye)
Parizat Ghayrat (AUS)
Payzulla Zeydun (USA)
Pinar Cetin (Germany)
Polatzhan Batalov (Kazakhstan)
Purkat Sali (Norway)
Qahraman Tursun (Netherlands)97.
Rabiye Demir (Canada)
Rahile Barat (Netherlands)
Rahima Mahmut (UK)
- Railiam Ibragimova ( Norway)
- Rakhimzhan Mansurov (Kazakhstan)
- Ramila Chanisheff (Australia)
- Ramile Ablimit (Canada)
- Rayhana Ruzehaji (Australia)
- Rena Karahan (Turkiye)
- Renaguli Reheman (Sweden)
- Rizvan’gul Turdiyeva (Sweden)
- Rizwana Ilham (Switzerland)
- Rizyda Valiyff (Australia)
- Robert Omarbakiev (Kazakhstan)
- Rukeya Muhammed (Australia)
- Rushan Abbas (USA)
- Salamet Hashim (Germany)
- Salih Valiyff (AUS)
- Samet Awut (USA)
- Samuel Chu (USA)
- Scott Busby (USA)
- Selami Cetinkaya (Canada)
- Selçuk Özdağ (Turkish MP)
- Shengchun (Sophie Luo) (USA)
- Sidhra Khalid (Australia)
- Sofiya Ala (Sweden)
- Sureyya Kashgary (USA)
- Tahir Imin (USA)
- Tran Dung Nghi (France )
- Turghunjan Alawdun (Germany)
- Turnisa Matsedik-Qira (Canada)
- Tursunzhan Saitov (Kazakhstan)
- Tuyghun Abduweli (Canada)
- Wuer Kaixi (Orkesh Dolet-Taiwan)
- Youssra Badr (Canada)
- Yultuz Tiyipjan (Australia)
- Zainidin Tursun (Netherlands)134. Zubayra Shamseden (USA)
- Zulfinur Ibrahim (Australia)
- Zulpikar Uygur (USA)
- Zumret Ibragimova (Sweden)
- Zumretay Arkin (Germany)
Languages Translated to:
- Albanian
- Arabic
- Bahasa-Indonesian language
- Chinese
- Czech language
- English
- French
- German
- Hebrew
Italian
- Japanese
Malaysian
Norwegian
Russian
Spanish
Slovakia
The Netherlands
Turkish
Uyghur
Uzbek
