We, the undersigned human rights organizations, are writing to urge you to support a decision at the current session of the United Nations Human Rights Council enabling the Council to discuss the recent report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.
Australia's Uyghur community say relatives in China face food shortages and family separations, but are too scared to ask for help as they continue to live under a COVID-19 lockdown in the western region of Xinjiang.
Australia's Uyghur community say relatives in China face food shortages and family separations, but are too scared to ask for help as they continue to live under a COVID-19 lockdown in the western region of Xinjiang.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet announced on 8 March that she has secured a visit to China ‘foreseen to take place in May’. Her announcement in an update to the UN Human Rights Council comes three and a half years after she publicly requested unrestricted access to China for the first time. Over this period, the undersigned organisations consider that she did not take adequate public diplomacy steps, including official statements, to respond to allegations of serious rights violations in the country in a timely manner.
by Tyler Durden
In the latest from their ongoing and increasingly nasty geopolitical row, China is accusing Australia
giving a free pass to terror-sympathizers over accusations that Aussie politicians are backing Uighur activists and providing external support to Muslim fundamentalists in Xinjiang.
This latest diplomatic fight started when as news.au.com describes Chinese state media seized on an article, published by fringe political group the Australian Citizens Party, criticizing local politicians’ support for the East Turkistan Australian Association (ETAA), a Uyghur advocacy group. The article claimed the ETAA
supported terror groups in Xinjiang.
It was specifically Australia s Defense Minister Andrew Hastie and independent Senator Rex Patrick who were called out by Chinese media for supporting the ETAA activists, which Canberra later called disinformation .