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China Uyghur crackdown
Citing Forced Labor Concerns, US Issues Ban on Xinjiang Cotton
By Eleanor Albert
U.S. businesses should not be allowed “to profit from slave labor,” a U.S. official said of the ban.
Where Is Uyghur Folklore Expert Rahile Dawut?
By Ruth Ingram
Uyghur scholar Rahile Dawut, missing since 2017, was awarded the 2020 Scholars at Risk “Courage to Think” award.
How China Uses the People’s Armed Police as Agents of Diplomacy
By Bonnie Girard
An instrument of domestic repression now doubles as a diplomatic tool.
China’s Barbarity Toward Uyghur Families Should Shock Our Consciousness and Spur Action
By Omer Kanat
Imagine not knowing the whereabouts and condition of your parents, children, brothers, sisters. For many Uyghurs abroad, that is the daily reality.
2020 Edition: Which Countries Are For or Against China’s Xinjiang Policies?
By Catherine Putz
Another year, another set of dueling statements about Xinjiang to the U.N. This time, there are some interesting differences in who is backing China -- and who isn't.
A Boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics Would Work
By Shannon Tiezzi
There is a massive overlap between Western liberal democracies and medal contenders in the Winter Games – enough to gut Beijing’s Olympic dreams.
What Forced Labor in Xinjiang Means for Supply Chain Due Diligence
By Andrew Samet
Can audit firms actually credibly audit in Xinjiang? Can they actually credibly audit in China at all?
China Doubles Down on Xinjiang Policy Amid Reports of Cultural Erasure
By Eleanor Albert
International opprobrium has so far failed to deter Beijing from its repressive policies in Xinjiang.
Sean R. Roberts on China’s War on the Uyghurs
By Catherine Putz
The Chinese Communist Party is “essentially waging a war against a portion of its own population (the Uyghur people), not as an ‘enemy,’ but as a ‘threat’ to society at large.”
China Buys Turkey’s Silence on Uyghur Oppression
By Aykan Erdemir and Philip Kowalski
Turkey has joined the list of majority Muslim countries that have opted for silence in dealing with the one of the most pressing human rights issues of our time.
Confessions of a Xinjiang Camp Teacher
By Ruth Ingram
Qelbinur Sedik reveals the horrors she witnessed in the camps, where she was forced to teach Mandarin in 2017.
China’s Human Rights Abuses Invite US Leadership
By Pierfilippo M. Natta
The oppression in Xinjiang is a test as to whether nations actually adhere to the principle of Responsibility to Protect.