CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -“The Uyghur Policy Act equips the U.S. with tools needed to support the basic human rights and distinct identities of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region subject to the Chinese government’s inhumane treatment.

Detailed explanation-2: -An act to condemn gross human rights violations of ethnic Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang, and calling for an end to arbitrary detention, torture, and harassment of these communities inside and outside China.

Detailed explanation-3: -We publish reports and analysis, in English and Chinese, to defend Uyghurs’ civil, political, social, cultural, and economic rights according to international human rights standards. We also submit reports and policy recommendations to governments and multilateral bodies like the UN and EU.

Detailed explanation-4: -Since at least 2016, Beijing’s “Strike Hard Campaign” in Xinjiang has included the mass arbitrary detention of more than a million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims, while subjecting many to torture, surveillance, forced labor and cultural persecution.