Earlier this year, the House passed the Uyghur Policy Act to support Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in preserving their identities against the Chinese regime’s attempts to erase them from history.

members of other persecuted groups" out of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), said Labour MP and former cabinet minister Liam Byrne.

Ed Miliband has green lighted a solar farm project in England despite alleged risks of Uyghur forced labour. The Mallard Pass Solar Project was one of the three projects that were approved on Friday by Mr.

Uyghurs are forced into labour in Xinjiang and elsewhere in China."

An estimated 1 million to 3 million Uyghurs have since been arbitrarily held in in various "political indoctrination camps" in China, according to the World Uyghur Congress.

Forced marriages are another means to de-Uyghurize Xinjiang. As many as 3 million Uyghurs, or 25 percent of the Uyghur population, are condemned to time in so-called reeducation camps.

'Cried With Joy' Rahima Mahmut, WUC's UK director and executive director of Stop Uyghur Genocide, said she "cried with joy," and hailed what she said was "a monumental victory and a moral triumph."

In recent years, Congress has passed the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 and the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) of 2021.

The Uyghur Policy Act aims to create concrete pathways for the United States to support Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities subject to mass human rights abuses by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Abbas: I was a reporter at Radio Free Asia in 1998 when it added a Uyghur service. I was the first Uyghur reporter and lived in Washington at that time.

In December 2021, the Uyghur Tribunal, an independent people's tribunal, ruled that the Chinese communist regime had committed torture, crimes against humanity, and genocide against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

Holding Uyghurs of the Diaspora Hostage The CCP can pressure Uyghurs who live abroad by threatening their family members back home, as all of the Uyghurs abroad have family still in Xinjiang, according to Ms. Abbas.

Congress passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) in 2021 to prevent U.S. imports of goods produced using forced Uyghur labor.

Louisa Greve, director of Global Advocacy, Uyghur Human Rights Project Mr. Michael Stumo, CEO, Coalition for a Prosperous America

Critics say the Chinese regime has targeted intellectuals as a way to dilute, or even erase, Uyghur culture, language, and identity.

Activists set up a mock Uyghur forced labor camp outside the Apple flagship store in Washington on March 4, 2022.

Uyghurs in the United States will protest China’s ongoing Uyghur genocide in Xinjiang and the deaths of the Uyghurs in the Urumqi fire. The Epoch Times will livestream the protest in Washington at 11:30 a.m. ET on Nov. 28.

Canada's corporate watchdog is launching a probe against the company Guess over possible ties to Uyghur forced labour in China.

The United States government officially recognized China’s ongoing genocide against Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in occupied East Turkistan (renamed Xinjiang) for two years on Jan. 19.

Like the other two firms, it has triggered the sanction for using Uyghur forced labor—from Pishan County in Xinjiang.

That woke up Uyghurs and the world, which started resisting, Mr. Kanat noted. Despite dark times for Uyghurs, Mr.

Rushan Abbas, executive director of Campaign for Uyghurs, said the designation of P-2 refugee status is a “long-overdue acknowledgment” of the horrific conditions faced by the Uyghurs.

A Swiss government-commissioned study, commonly known as the Weber report, examined pressure directed at Tibetan and Uyghur communities in the country.

The CORE pointed out that in a letter to Zara in November 2021, the complainants requested Zara to ensure, "beyond a reasonable doubt," that it does not benefit from Uyghur forced labour and to conduct due diligence to verify the absence of Uyghur forced

official on Thursday at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing over the president’s lifting of sanctions on the Chinese Communist Party-run Institute of Forensic Science, which has been confirmed by the United Nations to have committed atrocities on Uyghurs

Audits "in the Uyghur region, they are completely lacking credibility and impossible" because of the Chinese regime's clampdown, Ms. Cranston said.

Oxford University Press (OUP) is investigating three journal articles on forensic science that used genetic data from the Uyghur and Xibe ethnic groups in China.

for internment, depriving the Uyghur population of the ability to reproduce.