Tag: Uyghurs

LIVE 12 PM ET: NTD News Today (March 22): Pentagon Doctors Pushing for Transgender Procedures on Kids; UNESCO Under Fire Over CCP Atrocities

Some military doctors are saying kids as young as seven can make their own health decisions. They also say children experiencing gender dysphoria should be given medication right away. UNESCO, the United Nations agency dealing with education and culture, is under fire. It faces accusations of being complicit in ongoing atrocities by the CCP against…


NTD News Today (March 22): Pentagon Doctors Pushing for Transgender Procedures on Kids; UNESCO Under Fire Over CCP Atrocities

Some military doctors are saying kids as young as seven can make their own health decisions. They also say children experiencing gender dysphoria should be given medication right away. UNESCO, the United Nations agency dealing with education and culture, is under fire. It faces accusations of being complicit in ongoing atrocities by the CCP against…


Tesco to Phase Out Chinese Surveillance Cameras Over Security and Human Rights Concerns

Britain’s biggest supermarket Tesco has said it will ditch Chinese-made surveillance cameras from its stores, heeding warnings from human rights groups that they pose serious security and ethical risks. Tesco revealed the decision in response to an appeal from campaign groups Big Brother Watch, Hong Kong Watch, Stop Uyghur Genocide, and Free Tibet urging the…


Tesco to Phase Out Chinese Surveillance Cameras Over Security, Human Rights Concerns

Tesco, the UK’s biggest supermarket, plans to ditch Chinese-made surveillance cameras from its stores, heeding warnings from human rights groups that they pose serious security and ethical risks. Tesco revealed the decision in response to an appeal from campaign groups Big Brother Watch, Hong Kong Watch, Stop Uyghur Genocide, and Free Tibet urging the retail chain…


US Senators Question Fashion Retailer Shein About Forced Labor in Clothing Supply Chains

U.S. senators wrote a letter to the chief executive of Shein, a Chinese online fast fashion retailer, raising concerns about whether the company made use of cotton sourced from China’s Xinjiang region—a place notorious for pushing forced labor among Uyghur minorities. “We are concerned that American consumers may be inadvertently purchasing apparel made in-part with…


Repression of Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang Continues Unabated: Advocate

The harsh repression of ethnic Uyghurs in China’s far western Xinjiang region continues even after the United States and other countries recognized the atrocities as genocide, according to Salih Hudayar, the prime minister of the East Turkistan government-in-exile. According to estimates by researchers, the Chinese regime has detained more than one million Uyghurs and other…


MPs Vote Unanimously to Resettle 10,000 Displaced Uyghurs Fleeing ‘Genocide’ by Beijing

MPs have voted unanimously in favour of a motion that calls on the federal government to resettle 10,000 Uyghurs in Canada over the next two years, in an effort to support those fleeing an ongoing genocide by Beijing. Introduced by Liberal MP Sameer Zuberi, the private member’s motion was passed in Parliament on Feb. 1…


Federal Court Rejects Uyghur Group’s Lawsuit Against Ottawa Over Inaction on Beijing’s Abuses

A Federal Court has struck down an application from a Uyghur rights group that sought to sue the federal government over its lack of action on Beijing’s human rights atrocities against the Uyghur minority population in China. The petition also sought to gain formal recognition that China’s internment of its Uyghur population is an act of…


Over $800 Million Worth of Chinese Solar Imports Comes Under US Customs Scrutiny for Using Slave Labor

Solar panel shipments from China are coming under scrutiny of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) following a law passed last year that seeks to block Chinese solar imports made using forced labor of the Uyghur community in the Xinjiang region. In June last year, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) came into…


LIVE 2 PM ET: US Recognizes 2nd Year of Uyghur Genocide

The United States government officially recognized China’s ongoing genocide against Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in occupied East Turkistan (renamed Xinjiang) for two years on Jan. 19. The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) and the East Turkistan National Movement (ETNM) holds a press conference from 2:00-3:30 p.m. ET on Jan. 19 at the National…