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Campaigners criticise failure of UN report to label China’s crackdown on Muslim minorities genocide

The foreign affairs minister was outspoken about what she called genocide when in opposition, but Labor has toned down its words.

Editorial: The long-delayed report from the office of the human rights commissioner puts an official stamp on the evidence of shameful abuses against Uyghurs

The Government has called on Beijing to remedy human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims, while National says we shouldn't wave a "banner of purity".

China on Thursday accused the United Nations of becoming a "thug and accomplice of the US and the West" after the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a highly anticipated report warning that crimes against humanity may have taken place in the Xinjiang region.

Michelle Bachelet’s report on human rights abuses in Xinjiang is sobering – as are Beijing’s attempts to stop it being published, says James McMurray of the University of Sussex

The U.N.’s long-delayed report on mass detentions and other rights abuses against Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in China's far-western Xinjiang region has been welcomed by survivors as an acknowledgement of abuses they say they faced at the hands of the Chinese state

The European Commission, responding to a U.N. report that China may have committed crimes against humanity in its Xinjiang region, said on Thursday that it strongly condemns human rights violations in the country.

Sydney (AFP) - Uyghur activists and exiles had hoped a long-delayed United Nations report into alleged human rights violations by China would make it impossible for the world to ignore their plight.