Category: Human Rights
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Shein exposes child labor incidents as it increases supplier audits.
Fast fashion retailer Shein found two cases of child labour at its suppliers last year, it said in its 2023 sustainability report, as it stepped up audits of manufacturers in China to assuage criticisms of its low-cost business model ahead of a planned flotation. Shein said in the report yesterday it had suspended orders from…
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Harvard law researcher calls China’s Uyghur policy a “racialized atrocity crime.”
The Chinese government has imposed 4.4 million years of cumulative imprisonment on ethnic Uyghurs in its far-western Xinjiang region, a new report has found. The report, titled Uyghur Race as the Enemy and published by the Yale Macmillan Center’s Genocide Studies Program, finds high rates of incarceration are part of “racialised atrocity crimes” occurring in China against…
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The ‘Campaign for Uyghur’ demands for international responsibility for China’s human rights violations.
On the fifth annual International Day of Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief, Campaign for Uyghur’s Founder and Executive Director, Rushan Abbas took part in a webinar entitled “Prisoners of Conscience: Violence and Detention and Violence in Detention. Rushan gave a harrowing account of the Uyghur Genocide against the Muslim Uyghur…
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US official meets Dalai Lama to address Chinese ‘human rights crimes within Tibet’
Dalai Lama on Wednesday (Aug 21) met a Biden administration official in New York City as the India-based Tibetan spiritual leader continues with his effort for Tibetan self-rule decades after China took territorial control over 1.2 million sq km of landmass neighbouring India. “On August 21, 2024, Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and…
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UK broadens crackdown on tiny boat crossings to deport over 14,000 migrants.
Keir Starmer’s government pledged to increase deportations of people with no legal right to stay in the UK to the highest rate in five years, an effort to show it is responding to Britons’ concerns about rising immigration. The Home Office said on Wednesday it will recruit as many as 100 intelligence officers at the…
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American pharma companies accused of clinical testing in the Uyghur area.
American pharmaceutical companies are carrying out drug trials in China’s far-western Xinjiang region, where the United States says a genocide of the Uyghur population is taking place, U.S. lawmakers say. In a letter to the Federal Drug Administration, the two top lawmakers on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party requested an explanation…
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Uyghurs face cumulative 4.4 million years imprisonment under China’s communist regime’s persecution: Report
A recent analysis from the United States’ Yale University highlights the staggering impact of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) campaign against Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities in Xinjiang region, estimating a cumulative 4.4 million years of prison sentences. The report from Yale’s Macmillan Center for Genocide Studies indicates that the Chinese regime has shifted from…
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US clinical studies in China are being questioned by US politicians.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Tuesday called on the Biden administration to ramp up scrutiny of U.S. clinical trials conducted in China, citing the risk of intellectual property theft and the possibility of forced participation of Uyghurs. Republican John Moolenaar, who chairs the House Select Committee on China, and ranking Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthi said…
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China imprisons Uyghur brothers for ‘charitable activities’
Authorities in the Uyghur-majority region of Xinjiang in China have convicted seven brothers from a family for jail terms ranging from nine to 17 years for their charitable work, “supporting Uyghurs,” says a rights group. Norway-based non-profit Uyghur Hjelp said that the Obulqasim brothers were detained and imprisoned amid mass arrests of Uyghurs in 2017, and were…
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Fury in China as deliveryman kneels before guard.
Chinese authorities have called for gig workers to be treated with kindness after videos of a delivery rider kneeling before a security guard led to protests by dozens of riders. Guards stopped the rider from leaving a building in Hangzhou on Monday – saying he damaged railings while scaling them during a rushed delivery. Worried…