‘Reeducation’: what is known as a ‘vocational skills education centre’ in Dabancheng in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, 2018.
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The report shies away from the issue of ‘genocide’, but is still a landmark document with evidence of widespread abuse of Uyghur people.
Tibetans use the Olympic Rings as a prop as they hold a street protest against the 2022 Winter Olympics in Dharmsala, India on Feb. 3, 2021.
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The similarities between ongoing settler-colonialism in China and the history of settler-colonialism in Canada are frighteningly similar.
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Australia’s Senate has voted to prohibit the import of goods made using forced labour. But without government support it won’t become law.
A child stands near a large screen showing photos of Chinese President Xi Jinping near a carpark in Kashgar in western China’s Xinjiang region.
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Rights-based pressure on China over its treatment of Uyghurs is necessary, but other nations could also present best practices for the ethical treatment of racialized minorities in their own countries.
Uighurs protest outside the Chinese embassy in London in 2019.
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Reports have emerged of Uighur women being forcibly sterilised in China’s Xinjiang province. Why this could be genocide under international law.
Chinese paramilitary police stand duty in People’s Square where hundreds of Uighers first started a protest that erupted into rioting in July 2009. Five years later, China started imprisoning Uighers in “re-education hospitals.”
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The metaphors used to defend the 21st century’s largest system of concentration camps are chillingly similar to Nazi Holocaust-era justifications.