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Australian senator calls to recognise China’s treatment of Uighurs as genocide
Independent Rex Patrick moves after similar parliamentary motions passed in Canada and the NetherlandsAn Austr…
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Pro-choice protests in Warsaw and Myanmar coup: 20 photos on human rights this week
A roundup of the best photography on struggles for human rights and freedoms, from Algeria to Uganda Continue …
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‘Nobody wants this job now’: the gentle leaders of China’s Uighur exiles – in pictures
Fleeing to Kyrgyzstan in the 1960s, communities established mosques and villages but the local leaders, or dzh…
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Libs Dems warn China over ‘international bullying’ after sanctions threat
Chinese newspaper said countries that boycott 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics over treatment of Uighurs would fac…
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MPs urge British Olympians to boycott 2022 Beijing Winter Games
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey and Labour MP Chris Bryant urge officials and athletes to protest against oppression o…
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US ‘deeply disturbed’ by reports of systematic rape in China’s Xinjiang camps
State department says ‘atrocities’ against detained Uighur and Muslim women in region must be ‘met with seriou…
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Jewish leaders use Holocaust Day to decry persecution of Uighurs
UK community speaks out in effort to pressure government to take stronger stanceLeading figures in the UK Jewi…
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China deal damages EU’s human rights credibility, MEPs to say
European commission will come under fire over agreement that is already causing tensions with USTransatlantic …
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UK free to make trade deals with genocidal regimes after Commons vote
Defeated measure aimed to give high court more power to protect minorities such as China’s UighursThe governme…
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Mike Pompeo declares China’s treatment of Uighurs ‘genocide’
Outgoing secretary of state imposes new sanctions on BeijingOfficials say 1m minorities in Xinjiang have been …
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Forced labour clampdown is long overdue | Letters
John Morrison and Sam Watson on Dominic Raab’s commitment to fine businesses over modern-day slavery in supply…
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Uighur campaigners to target 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics sponsors
Activists will write to companies in bid to persuade them to use their influence with Chinese governmentCampai…
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UK government faces battle over giving courts power to rule on genocide
High court could rule on whether Uighur people are suffering genocide in China if amendment passesThe Foreign …
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China in darkest period for human rights since Tiananmen, says rights group
Human Rights Watch lists persecutions in Xinjiang, Mongolia, Tibet and Hong Kong but notes new willingness to …
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China’s treatment of Uighurs amounts to torture, says Dominic Raab
Foreign secretary sets out measures to ensure UK companies cannot profit from forced labour in XinjiangChina’s…