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The U.N. finally released its report on human rights abuses in Xinjiang. What did the investigation uncover, and what’s next for the international community?
The report finds that Beijing's crackdown on ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang autonomous region may constitute crimes against humanity.
On Thursday, May 6, 2021, at 12:30 p.m., the House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on the atrocities against Uighurs and other minorities in Xinjiang. The committee will hear testimony from Nury Turkel, chairman of the board of the Uyghur Human Rights Project; Tursunay Ziyawudun, a survivor and advocate; and James Millward, professor at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service.
While the common understanding of “genocide” focuses on mass killings, international law embraces “biological destruction” as a form of genocide. Euro-American coverage of the Xinjiang crisis often fails to bridge these competing understandings.
Lawfare’s biweekly roundup of U.S.-China technology policy and national security news.
For the ethnic Kazakhs caught up in China’s brutal repression campaign in Xinjiang, their national government, once a source of some hope, offers little support.
Lawfare’s biweekly roundup of U.S.-China technology policy and national security news.
How the U.S. can push back on human rights abuses in the region.
Uighur activist groups filed an ICC complaint against Chinese officials. What’s in the complaint, and how could the ICC exercise its jurisdiction considering China isn’t signed to the Rome Statute?
If the United States wants to make progress on China's human rights violations, it needs to take China's security concerns seriously.