Uyghur Human Rights Project
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Promoting human rights for Uyghurs in East Turkistan through research, reporting, and advocacy. 中文: @UHRP_Chinese | Support us: https://t.co/HyTns4MGeW
Washington, DC
Joined December 2012
📊 New UHRP research by @PeterIrwin_ + @HenrykSzad uncovers surge in air cargo flights between Ürümchi and over a dozen European cities. These ✈️📦 routes risk carrying goods linked to Uyghur forced labor directly into European supply chains. https://t.co/94mmrUVFuW
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Air cargo routes are rapidly expanding between Ürümchi and over a dozen European cities. Since June 2024, nine cargo companies have launched new air freight routes between Ürümchi and cities across...
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See their April research on dramatic 📈 increase in international hotel chains in the Uyghur region. Major chains @Accor @HiltonHotels @Hyatt @IHGhotels @Marriott @WyndhamHotels all operating amidst atrocities, some directly connected to abuses. https://t.co/vWgcWAAmzf
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Research by @PeterIrwin_ + @HenrykSzad cited by @BBCNews ➡️ "Some 200 international hotels, including prominent names like Hilton and Marriott, are either already operating or planning to open in Xinjiang, according to [the] Uyghur Human Rights Project." https://t.co/CUT4NOiHMk
bbc.com
China has repackaged Xinjiang into a tourist haven, touting "ethnic" experiences that activists say it's trying to erase.
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@henrykszad @lonelyplanet 🏨 In a report with Peter Irwin and Ben Carrdus, they reveal a significant growth of international hotel chains in the Uyghur Region amidst genocide, and their connections to human rights abuses. https://t.co/vWgcWAAUoN
uhrp.org
Five international hotel chains—Accor, Hilton, InterContinental (IHG), Marriott, and Wyndham—currently operate in the Uyghur Region amidst ongoing crimes against humanity and genocide.
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@henrykszad @lonelyplanet 🇪🇺 "Genocide Tours: European Travel Companies in East Turkistan" (2024) takes a similar approach targeting several European tour operators running tours to the Uyghur Region. https://t.co/7mX0e2Ie0m
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New research from the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) highlights the ongoing problem of organized travel to the Uyghur region amid crimes against humanity and genocide. The briefing, Genocide...
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@henrykszad @lonelyplanet 🚄 "Genocide Tours: International Travel Companies in East Turkistan" (2023) looks at travel companies running tours to the region and repeating government narratives erasing Uyghur identity. https://t.co/fVRdS2onBS
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Prominent international travel companies are currently offering guided tours to East Turkistan amidst genocide and crimes against humanity.
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@henrykszad @lonelyplanet See more from Szadziewski on tourism in the Uyghur Region: 🗺️ Territorialization on tour: The tourist gaze along the Silk Road Economic Belt in Kashgar, China" on how China uses tourism to force Uyghurs to present a sanitized version for visitors. https://t.co/PYFLRz7nEg
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UHRP #Insights 💡 by Henryk Szadziewski (@henrykszad) explores how @LonelyPlanet’s latest China guide downplays atrocity crimes against Uyghurs by: ➡️ Framing mass repression as "political unrest" ➡️ Recommending tourist sites built on cultural erasure https://t.co/wixhfxn834
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The phrasing obscures much about what has happened in the region since the last one was published in May 2022.
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🕵️♂️ UN report on transnational repression Investigation finds PRC targeting Uyghur activists and families beyond its borders. https://t.co/jUWBjJ9eff
icij.org
A new report recounts recent reprisals from two dozen countries and underscores ICIJ’s reporting on Beijing's tactics to silence critics abroad.
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✊🏽 Why the world must sustain pressure on China Explainer on ongoing crimes in East Turkistan and why global advocacy must not fade. https://t.co/w0xdvgts98
traversingtradition.com
Uyghur-American advocate Aydin Anwar outlines the severe oppression faced by Uyghurs in East Turkistan, documenting personal experiences and historical context. It discusses the Chinese government&…
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🏛️ How states weaken human rights at the UN New ISHR report exposes tactics governments use to strip funding from rights mechanisms. @ISHRglobal @ISHR_chinese @vdraphael @PhilALynch
https://t.co/73S4tRvXGN
ishr.ch
See press release here. In its new report ‘Budget battles at the UN: How States try to defund human rights’, the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) reveals how a small group of States are…
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🌍 New data on coal & forced labor risk Research flags expansion of coal-chemical industry in the Uyghur Region tied to state repression. @Urgewald
https://t.co/qJaCnbf7jQ
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✍️ Reclaiming narrative power @DilnurReyhan challenges colonial frameworks shaping how Uyghurs are discussed worldwide. https://t.co/6rL7gcjshf
globalvoices.org
Global Voices interviewed Uyghur sociologist Dilnur Reyhan to better understand the challenges facing the Uyghur diaspora, especially in Europe.
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⚖️ Uyghurs detained abroad under PRC pressure Turkey and Morocco ramp up arrests, showing Beijing’s reach over global law enforcement. @tom_levitt
https://t.co/7nOCtb10dS
theguardian.com
After fleeing Chinese repression, Uyghurs Idris and Zeynure Hasan thought their family would be safe. But Beijing’s growing influence led to Idris’s arrest and a long battle to be reunited
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🕊️ Uyghur life before mass repression A reminder that Uyghurs once lived with far more cultural and religious freedom in China. https://t.co/XQxwbiDooL
theworld.org
In a classroom in western China, children once learned to sing and count in the language of their ancestors — Uyghur. Then, the doors were locked, and founder Abduweli Ayup went from teacher to enemy...
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📻 RFA signs off after U.S. defunding @RadioFreeAsia leadership warns shuttering Uyghur and China desks risks truth in authoritarian spaces. https://t.co/5xaZHjKgDO
rfa.org
From the executive editor: funding uncertainty is driving RFA’s remaining teams to stop delivering the news for now
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📰 Issue 11 of the #UyghurReader is out! A biweekly roundup highlighting essential reporting + analysis on the Uyghur crisis (October 16–29). Curated 🧠 this week by @PeterIrwin_, @HenrykSzad, and Adaire Criner. https://t.co/eqiynxX1CV
uhrp.org
Welcome to the eleventh issue of the Uyghur Reader, a biweekly content roundup curated by the staff of the Uyghur Human Rights Project.
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"With the world’s only independent Uyghur-language news service shuttered, China’s propaganda will fester without a potent and effective accountability check." @RadioFreeAsia: funding uncertainty driving remaining staff to stop delivering news for now. https://t.co/IXufaFWjWi
rfa.org
From the executive editor: funding uncertainty is driving RFA’s remaining teams to stop delivering the news for now
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Exclusive: States are working behind the scenes in New York to defund human rights at the UN 🇺🇳 New @ISHRglobal research shows how powerful States like China 🇨🇳, Russia 🇷🇺 and the US 🇺🇲 use UN budget committee to undermine UN’s ability to protect human rights around the world.
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"Xilinhot, a city in Inner Mongolia, announced plans to collect blood samples to update an identification database [...]" China collected DNA and blood samples in the Uyghur Region in 2017, building a highly problematic database for surveillance. https://t.co/PbFGIL1QP0
business-standard.com
Police in Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia, sparked controversy after announcing plans to collect men's blood samples to update an identification database for ID cards and passports
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高市総理のもと、外務大臣政務官に再任されました。 現在、自由・民主主義・人権・法の支配といった、我が国が大切にしてきた普遍的な価値観が、国際社会において大きく揺らいでいます。そのような中、外交は安全保障の要として、かつてない重要性を帯びています。
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