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Ilham Tohti awarded the 2019 Sakharov Prize

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Uyghur economist and human rights activist Ilham Tohti has been awarded this year’s European Parliament Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. European Parliament President David...

WUC Remembers the Victims of the Urumqi Massacre

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Friday, 5 July 2019, marks the 10th anniversary of the Urumqi massacre in East Turkistan, known officially as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. On July...

Dr Lobsang Sangay: ‘The human rights situation in Tibet has gone from bad to worse’

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The Tibetan question has returned to the fore,  making its way high on the agenda of the European Union’s foreign ministers. Chinese officials have...

Dolkun Isa participates in UN Indigenous Forum despite growing Chinese influence

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On behalf of the Society for Threatened Peoples, Dolkun Isa, attended the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues from April 29 – May 1st in New...

Parliament: China must close all camps and detention centres

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On Thursday, the European Parliament adopted a resolution taking stock of human rights situation in China. Parliament is concerned about the increasingly repressive regime that...
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