Afumetto Retepu, Chairman of the Japan Uyghur Association, calls for democracies to take concrete action against China instead of merely "expressing concern."
"We need concrete action. I urge countries involved with China to place their conscience and humanity over money" — Gulbahar Haitiwaji, former Uyghur detainee.
The UN Human Rights Council's decision came days after World Uyghur Congress representatives and a camp survivor took their appeal to Japanese lawmakers.
As victims of Beijing’s ethnic cleansing shared their experiences at a New York conference, it became impossible to see the Uyghur genocide as a distant crisis.
The UN has recognized China’s oppression of its Uyghur minority. The international community needs to apply pressure on the Chinese government to stop.
Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet fails to check on the horrible conditions in internment camps, as shown in thousands of leaked Chinese documents.
Local assembly members throughout Japan have been unafraid to call out China by name on its human rights abuses. The Japanese government must find similar courage.
Global criticism of the forced labor of Uyghurs is growing, but China’s retaliation against companies standing up against human rights abuses is causing new anxiety for...
~~ ISTANBUL, Turkey — A woman doctor from the ethnic Uyghur minority, now exiled in Turkey, painted a vivid picture of the Chinese crackdown on human...
A victim’s account of inhumane experiments on an estimated 1.8 million Uyghurs in the Xinjiang autonomous region paints a picture reminiscent of Nazi genocide.
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin tweeted, “The international community cannot turn a blind eye” to a BBC report of systematic rape and abuse of women in...
Pointing to China’s “systematic attempt to destroy Uyghurs,” Tomomi Shimizu implored, “Japan must not just regard the oppression as something that is happening far away.”