Two years after the publication of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' landmark assessment on the situation in the Uyghur region (Xinjiang), global scrutiny of China's human rights violations remains strong.
The European Parliament adopted today an urgent resolution condemning Beijing’s persecution against Uyghurs, demanding the release of prominent figures Gulshan Abbas and Ilham Tohti. Following this landmark call, Abbas’ daughter, Ziba Murat, and ISHR urge EU leaders to step up EU action on the fate of Uyghurs at the United Nations.
Art for Human Rights and Human Rights in China (HRIC) announced on 5 September that a bronze bust of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, which they had commissioned, will be donated to the Irish Centre for Human Rights (ICHR) at the University of Galway and unveiled on 11 September 2024. The project was conducted in partnership with ISHR and other human rights organisations.
A spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, issued today a rare public statement on his Office’s work on China, marking two years since the release of its groundbreaking report on the grave human rights situation in the Uyghur region (Xinjiang).
This briefing paper summarises the position of UN experts that RSDL constitutes enforced disappearance, arbitrary detention, and could amount to torture, and includes a repository of all UN documents referring to RSDL since August 2018.
This report examines the troubling trend of reprisals against civil society actors by the People’s Republic of China, particularly those engaging with UN human rights mechanisms. It highlights the systematic measures taken by the Chinese government to suppress civil society's engagement with international bodies, under the guise of national security.
At the adoption of the report of its fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR), China ignored calls to implement UN findings and dismissed all serious criticism of its human rights record, refusing to budge on the documented plight of Uyghurs, Tibetans, Hong Kongers, human rights activists, lawyers, and more. We urged China to genuinely engage with the UN to enact meaningful reforms.
Over the past months, the UN human rights chief has stepped up his condemnation of abuses in Hong Kong and mainland China. Rights groups and activists remain concerned at decreasing UN attention to Tibet and to the UN’s Xinjiang report.
Nearly two years after its publication, rights groups urged the UN Rights chief to follow up on his office's Xinjiang Report.
The UN Human Rights Council will hold its 56th regular session at Palais des Nations in Geneva from 18 June and 12 July 2024. Check out the key issues on the agenda.
