February 8, 2021 – Today the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), in partnership with the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) and Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), has obtained an authoritative legal opinion on the treatment of Uyghurs by Chinese authorities. In what is the first legal opinion published by barristers pursuant to formal instructions, leading lawyers at Essex […]
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180+ Orgs Demand Apparel Brands End Complicity in Uyghur Forced Labour
July 23, 2020 – Today, 72 Uyghur rights groups are joined by over 100 civil society organisations and labour unions from around the world in calling on apparel brands and retailers to stop using forced labour in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (“Uyghur Region”), known to local people as East Turkistan, and end their complicity […]
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Report: Chinese government engaged in a systematic, widespread campaign to intimidate, silence Uyghur Americans
Aug. 28, 2019 – The Uyghur Human Rights Project’s (UHRP) new report, Repression Across Borders, reveals how the Chinese government is applying a systematic, ambitious, multi-year, well-resourced, relentless and cruel policy to inflict pain and suffering on Uyghurs abroad in an attempt to control their speech and actions. The campaign constitutes an ongoing series of […]