Washington, DC [US] September 5 (ANI): The World Uyghur Congress (WUC), in its month-to-month temporary, spotlighted a collection of serious advocacy breakthroughs and worldwide initiatives all through August, highlighting rising international momentum to carry China accountable for its human rights abuses in East Turkistan (Xinjiang). From legislative measures in Washington to authorized motion in Australia, the Uyghur trigger is gaining large worldwide help.
According to WUC, in Washington, US lawmakers launched a bipartisan bundle of payments, together with the Preventing the Forced Return of Uyghurs Act, designed to guard Uyghurs and different Turkic minorities from compelled repatriation to China, the place they threat detention, torture, or enforced disappearance.
Complementing that is the Uyghur Genocide Accountability and Sanctions Act (UGASA), backed by 5 Uyghur organisations. The invoice requires sanctions on people concerned in compelled labour, organ harvesting, and surveillance, and would bar US authorities procurement of products linked to Uyghur compelled labour.
The World Uyghur Congress additionally highlighted a significant step ahead within the enforcement of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA). The US Department of Homeland Security has added metal, copper, lithium, caustic soda, and pink dates from China to its high-priority inspection checklist, signalling more durable scrutiny of imports linked to compelled labour networks in East Turkistan.
The Centre for Uyghur Studies (CUS), a WUC affiliate, launched a groundbreaking report titled Exposing China’s Propaganda Campaigns in MENA.
The research reveals Beijing’s intensive disinformation methods in Arabic-speaking international locations, together with using faux social media accounts, financial leverage, cultural diplomacy, and spiritual outreach to undermine Muslim solidarity with Uyghurs.
In Japan, the Japan Uyghur Association organised a symposium, The Reality and Challenges of China’s Cross-Border Repression, that includes distinguished voices corresponding to Professor Maiko Ichihara and Human Rights Watch’s Teppei Kasai.
With round 100 members and protection by NHK and Sankei Shimbun, the occasion underscored Japan’s rising consciousness of China’s transnational repression, as highlighted by WUC.
Australian Uyghur Tangritagh Women’s Association (AUTWA) for submitting a landmark lawsuit towards Kmart over alleged compelled labour ties. Led by AUTWA President Ramila Chanisheff, the case is a groundbreaking step towards company accountability in Australia, the place no compelled labour import ban at present exists, in accordance with WUC. (ANI)