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The report's findings included that a large number of abuses had occurred within Xinjiang, corroborating academic research and public reporting on the abuses in the largely ethnic minority region. The report concluded that human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang are
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A substantial majority of MPs — including most Liberals who participated — voted in favour of a Conservative motion that says China's actions in its western Xinjiang region meet the definition of genocide set out in the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention. ... The final tally was 266 in favour
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fell by more than 60%. In the same period, the birth rate of the whole country decreased by 9.69%. Chinese authorities acknowledged that birth rates dropped by almost a third in 2018 in Xinjiang, but denied reports of forced sterilization and genocide. Birth rates in Xinjiang fell a further 24% in
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In light of the reports of abuses, as well as the international reactions to them, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights sought to investigate the reports of abuses in the region. Nearly four years following the findings by a U.N. Committee that the estimates of more
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The report found that the Chinese government's labor schemes relating to what the government of China referred to as vocational training constituted discrimination. With respect to whether labor schemes that China describes as poverty alleviation schemes have involved the coercion of Uyghurs and
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The report was created by the United Nations through a thorough review of evidence documented by the OHCHR. Several forms of evidence were considered in making the report, including interviews with several dozen people who lived in Xinjiang at the time that abuses had been publicly reported. The
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and other largely Muslim groups in China. The report concluded that "he extent of arbitrary and discriminatory detention of members of Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim groups, pursuant to law and policy, in context of restrictions and deprivation more generally of fundamental rights enjoyed
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that were concerned about the both human rights situation in Xinjiang and in China, more broadly. After arriving in the region, she talked to numerous government officials, academics, and civil society leaders. However, due to opposition by China, the OHCHR was unable to conduct a more thorough
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executive director Omer Kanat called the report "a game-changer for the international response to the Uyghur crisis", adding that "espite the Chinese government's strenuous denials, the UN has now officially recognized that horrific crimes are occurring".
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report also focused its analysis on what the Chinese government had publicly stated contemporaneously with the reported abuses, including public Chinese government documents and laws promulgated at the time. In May 2022, OHCHR commissioner
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said that the assessment was "invalid and illegal." The government mounted pressure on UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet through diplomatic channels. North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba asked the UN chief to not publish the report.
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The report contains recommended courses of action for governmental actors, the United Nations, and for the broad international community. Among the recommendations for the Government of China are that it ratify the
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and were undertaken in a discriminatory fashion. Former inmates who were detained in Xinjiang stated that they had received beatings while strapped to a chair and described undergoing torture similar to
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The OHCHR described reports of sexual violence targeted at Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims within the Xinjiang internment camps as credible. Women interviewed by the United Nations described being
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by prison guards and being forcibly subjected to examinations of their genitalia in front of large crowds. The report also noted that there was an "unusually sharp rise" in the amount of
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The Chinese government denies having committed human rights abuses in Xinjiang. International reactions have varied. Some United Nations (UN) member states issued statements to the
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was dismissed because the crimes alleged appeared to have been "committed solely by nationals of China within the territory of China, a State which is not a party to the
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insertions and sterilizations performed in Xinjiang and stated that the Chinese government used coercive means to sharply lower the birth rate of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
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The government said that the report was "based on the disinformation and lies fabricated by anti-China forces," publishing a 131-page counter-report. The
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Pakistani foreign ministry backs China's efforts in Xinjiang for socioeconomic development, harmony, peace, and stability in Xinjiang. Foreign minister
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In the report, the OHCHR stated that reports that the Chinese government had arbitrarily detained Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims
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have been razed or damaged, and hundreds of thousands of children have been forcibly separated from their parents and sent to
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OHCHR Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China
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OHCHR Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China
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condemning China's policies, while others supported China's policies. In December 2020, a case brought to the
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OHCHR Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China
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OHCHR Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China
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in the Xinjiang internment camps were credible, specifying that the actions of the Chinese state amounted to
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Finley, Joanne (2020). "Why Scholars and Activists Increasingly Fear a Uyghur Genocide in Xinjiang".
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It is the largest mass internment of an ethnic-religious minority group since World War II.
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condemned the Chinese government's treatment of Uyghurs as "severe human rights abuses" or
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International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
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region that have resulted in the incarceration of more than an estimated one million
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than one million Muslims having been arbitrarily detained were credible claims, the
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individually and collectively, may constitute international crimes, in particular
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visited Xinjiang. Prior to her visit, she spoke with representatives of several
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Public reporting has stated that Chinese government policies have included the
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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
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The report was criticized by some activists for not calling the crimes a
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investigation on-the-ground within the borders of the People's Republic.
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In March 2024, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,
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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
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Ivan Watson, Rebecca Wright and Ben Westcott (21 September 2020).
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Welch, Dylan; Hui, Echo; Hutcheon, Stephen (24 November 2019).
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For 2019 papers released on the Xinjiang internment camps, see
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both welcomed the report. European Union High Representative
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accused the report by OHCHR were "taken out of context".
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released the report shortly before leaving the office.
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describing China's actions as genocide, including the
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OHCHR Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China
Xinjiang papers

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Report website
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Uyghurs
crimes against humanity
Michelle Bachelet
Persecution of Uyghurs in China
Xinjiang internment camps
Xinjiang conflict
administration
Chinese Communist Party
General Secretary
Xi Jinping
Xinjiang
Turkic
internment camps
legal process
World War II
mosques
boarding schools
arbitrary detention
forced labor
religious practices
indoctrination
forced sterilization
contraception

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