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Chinese police target Tibetans for DNA collection, reports allege

Chinese police have taken DNA samples from as much as one-third of Tibet's population since June 2016, according to a report.

Axios

A Uyghur seeks just a place to sleep in 'The Backstreets'

Perhat Tursun's novel explores human rights abuses against China's Uyghur minority through one man's search for a home. The author himself has been imprisoned and a co-translator has disappeared.

WEKU

European Commission proposes new rules to ban forced labour products

A new report from the UN's International Labour Organization (ILO) shows that more than 27 million people are engaged in forced labour around the world. This Tuesday, Brussels is announcing new rules to ban goods made with forced labour or those imported into the bloc. The ILO report also raised…

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Xinjiang lockdown: Chinese censors drown out posts about food and medicine shortages

‘Internet commentary personnel’ told to deluge social media with thoughts on anything from cooking to their personal mood

The Guardian - AU

West weighs contentious anti-China move as U.N. rights council opens

Western countries face a dilemma as the U.N. Human Rights Council opens on Monday: confront China over human rights violations in its Xinjiang region and risk failing or miss the biggest opportunity to bring accountability in years.

Reuters

UN rights council credibility at stake over China, Russia response

Geneva (AFP) - Faced with allegations of grave violations in China and Russia, the UN body created to address rights abuses seems paralysed by uncertainty on how to respond.

AFP

China shuns cooperation with UN rights office over report

A top Chinese diplomat says China can’t work with the U.N. human rights office after it released a report criticizing Beijing’s policies against Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in western Xinjiang

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China ambassador: U.N. report on Xinjiang has 'closed door of cooperation'

China's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva said on Friday that Beijing would not cooperate with the U.N. human rights office following the release of a long-awaited report on alleged human rights abuses in the far western region of Xinjiang.

Reuters

UN approves Austria’s Volker Turk as new human rights chief

Turk’s immediate challenge is to follow up on previous UN rights chief’s report on abuse of Uighurs in China’s Xinjiang.

Al Jazeera

Austria's Volker Turk tapped as next UN rights chief

United Nations (United States) (AFP) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has tapped the Austrian diplomat Volker Turk to be the next High Commissioner for Human Rights, with his nomination to be put to the General Assembly for approval on Thursday.

AFP

Swiss press human rights concerns with China

Switzerland called a meeting with China's ambassador to express its concern about the human rights situation in the western region of Xinjiang, the foreign ministry in Bern said on Thursday, correcting its earlier comment that it had "summoned" the envoy.

Reuters

UN report on China's abuse of Uyghurs is stronger than expected but missing a vital word: genocide

The long-awaited UN report into human rights abuses committed in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) was finally published last week to a mixed reception. For some – principally the Chinese government – it went too far. Others thought it didn’t go far enough.

The Conversation

Xinjiang Red Dates, Linked to Forced Labor, Sold in US

Report says 20% of world’s red dates come from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and are likely the products of forced labor.

The News Lens

China's angry defense of its "serious human rights violations" in Xinjiang

The Chinese government reacted furiously to the release of a report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on 31 August, calling it "wholly illegal and invalid". Read more on Dynamite News:

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The Guardian - UK

‘Our people are still trapped’: Uyghur exiles demand action on abuses

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

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UN report on Chinese persecution of Uyghurs demands tough action. Instead, Labor seems to be following the Coalition’s script

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

The Independent UK

Senior Tory calls on Government to ban cotton from Xinjiang

Tory MP Tom Tugendhat said it should come as a response to the country’s treatment of Uyghurs.

The Guardian - AU

When my family was reunited in Australia, I had to learn to be a dad to a son I’d never met

My wife and I were apart so long we forgot how to be a couple – and for weeks my three-year-old boy called me uncle

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The Guardian - AU

New Zealand’s shadow foreign affairs spokesperson faces criticism for response to UN report on Uyghurs

Gerry Brownlee says report on human rights violations in Xinjiang recognises China is ‘dealing with a terrorist problem’

The Independent UK

Beijing taps into anti-West resentment to counter UN report

After a new U.N. report concluded that China's crackdown in its far-west Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity, China is using a well-worn tactic to deflect criticism: blame a Western conspiracy

Asharq Al-Awsat

Amid US Retail Gloom, Uniqlo Shines on COVID-Triggered Revamp

Just as inflation ravages the big guns of US apparel retail, awash in high inventory and deep discounts to lure shoppers back to stores, Japan's Uniqlo is set for its best year ever in North America after a COVID-imposed revolution in its business model. Retailers from Gap to Kohl's are…

The Conversation

UN report on Xinjiang abuses leaves no room for plausible deniability

The Chinese regime’s treatment of Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim groups in the province of Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity, says a long-awaited report from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

France 24

US says China must be 'held to account' after UN report on Xinjiang abuse

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that a long-awaited UN report on human rights violations in China's Xinjiang province reaffirmed Washington's view that Beijing is committing "genocide" against the Uyghurs.

AFP

US says UN report shows Xinjiang 'genocide' as China irate

Washington (AFP) - The United States said Thursday that a long-awaited UN report reaffirmed its view that China is carrying out genocide against the Uyghur people, as Beijing furiously labeled the world body an accomplice of the West.

The Guardian - UK

Lawyer criticises UN report’s failure to call Uyghur oppression ‘genocide’

Sir Geoffrey Nice QC says outgoing human rights chief’s report on China makes it easier for international community to do nothing

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