Today, CSW joins 72 Uyghur rights groups and over 100 civil society organisations and labour unions from around the world in calling on apparel brands and retailers to stop using forced labour in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (“Uyghur Region”) and end their complicity in the Chinese government’s human rig
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Over 600 parliamentarians have signed a joint statement calling on China to end human rights violations against Falun Gong practitioners on the 21st anniversary of the beginning of the Chinese authorities’ systematic crackdown on the group. The statement, signed by parliamentarians from across the globe, claims “Since July 1999, millions of Falun Gong practitioners in
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Today, 9 July, marks the fifth anniversary of China’s infamous 709 Crackdown, in which over 300 lawyers, human rights defenders, and their colleagues and family members were detained, interrogated or imprisoned. The 709 Crackdown, named after the date on which it started, is regarded as one of the worst crackdowns on human rights defenders in
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On 9 July 2015 the Chinese authorities began an extensive crackdown on human rights defenders (HRDs) and their friends and family members. Dubbed the ‘709 Crackdown’ after the date on which it began, the campaign saw over 300 lawyers, activists and their associates detained, interrogated or imprisoned.
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In Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, (also referred to by many Uyghurs as East Turkestan), such technology is widely used by the Chinese authorities to identify and restrict the movements of Uyghurs and other ethnic groups as part of the authorities’ extensive crackdown on these groups, in which between one and three million individuals are believed to have been detained in so-called ‘political re-education camps.’
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