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May 20, 2022 News Release

UN: Rights Chief’s Credibility at Stake in China Visit

High Commissioner Should Address Crimes Against Humanity as Top Priority

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March 31, 2022 News Release

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March 8, 2022 Letter

Open letter to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: OHCHR report on grave human rights violations in Xinjiang can wait no longer

March 8, 2022 News Release

UN: Groups Urge Rights Chief to Report on Chinese Government Abuses

High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet Should Release Xinjiang Inquiry as Promised

High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet attends a meeting of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, June 17, 2020.
January 5, 2022 Commentary

Human Rights Abuses Will Taint the Olympics and the World Cup. It’s Time to End ‘Sportswashing’ Now.

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November 12, 2021 Statement

China: Olympics Sponsors in Spotlight as Games Loom

Address Rights Risks, Press IOC to Adopt Rights Policy

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May 12, 2021 Statement

Remarks by Kenneth Roth at the High-Level Virtual UN Event on the Situation of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim Minorities in Xinjiang

September 9, 2020 News Release

Global Coalition urges UN to Address China’s Human Rights Abuses

More than 300 Organizations Call for International Mechanism

U.N. headquarters Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon)
July 9, 2020 Dispatches

US Takes Key Action for Human Rights in China

Sanctions Targeting Xinjiang Officials Address Serious Abuse

A Uighur woman picking up school children rides past a picture showing China's President Xi Jinping joining hands with a group of Uighur elders at the Unity New Village in Hotan, in western China's Xinjiang region.
June 29, 2020 News Release

UN: Act on Broad Expert Call Denouncing China Abuses

Human Rights Council Should Monitor; Secretary-General Should Appoint Envoy

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June 19, 2020 News Release

EU: Make China Rights Crisis a Summit Priority

Hong Kong, Xinjiang Responses Should Top Agenda

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January 31, 2020 Commentary

Indonesia’s Silence over Xinjiang

One million Muslims detained. Mass surveillance. Political indoctrination. Separation of children.

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March 13, 2019 Letter

NGOs Urge the EU to Press China on Human Rights

Joint Letter to the EU and EU member states

November 15, 2018 Dispatches

Glaring Omission in Security Council Plan to Visit China

One Million Uighurs in Detention Deserve World’s Attention

China: One Belt, One Road, Lots of Obligations PHOTO
September 10, 2017 News Release

China: Free Xinjiang ‘Political Education’ Detainees

Muslim Minorities Held for Months in Unlawful Facilities

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