EU lawmakers find ‘serious risk of genocide’ in China’s repression of Uyghurs — Radio Free Asia

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Members of the European Parliament on Thursday easily passed a resolution calling the Chinese government’s systemic human rights abuses against the mostly Muslim Uyghur minority “crimes against humanity and a serious risk of genocide.” The EU condemned “in the strongest possible terms that the Uyghurs have been systematically oppressed by brutal measures including mass deportation,

UN rights chief’s office announces dates of China visit, including Xinjiang — Radio Free Asia

Alena Douhan, the UN special rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, gives a press conference in Iran's capital Tehran, May 18, 2022. Credit: AFP

The U.N.’s human rights chief on Monday will begin a six-day official visit to China, including to the far-western Xinjiang region where widespread abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities at the hands of Chinese authorities are said to have occurred. The trip is the culmination of years of effort by exiled Uyghurs to draw

World Bank investment arm complicit in China’s repression of Uyghurs, report says — Radio Free Asia

World Bank investment arm complicit in China’s repression of Uyghurs, report says — Radio Free Asia

The World Banks economic sector lending arm provided nearly half a billion dollars to 4 Chinese companies accused of using Uyghur forced labor in Chinas far-western Xinjiang area, according to an investigative report released Thursday. The International Financial Corporation (IFC) has a number of investments in the region, where mainly Muslim Uyghurs and other Turkic

US lawmakers nominate Uyghur rights groups for Nobel Peace Prize — Radio Free Asia

US lawmakers nominate Uyghur rights groups for Nobel Peace Prize — Radio Free Asia

Japanese Parliament passes resolution on human rights situation in China — Radio Free Asia

Japanese Parliament passes resolution on human rights situation in China — Radio Free Asia

Japans Parliament embraced a resolution on Tuesday revealing concern over the human rights circumstance in China, including the repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang and the crackdown in Hong Kong, calling on its federal government to take procedures to attend to the circumstance. In the unusual rights motion passed 2 days prior to the start of

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