China’s clout at the UN makes it hard to press Beijing, analysts say a year after the damning report was released. By Jewlan for RFA Uyghur, 2023.09.01 Women hold pictures of victims and posters protesting China's crackdown on Uyghurs, in front of the Chinese consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 30, 2022. Human rights groups criticized the United Nations for failing to take concrete action against China for ...

By Professor Nukhet A. Sandal The web of geopolitics is often intricate, where the lives and fates of millions intersect with economic interests and political maneuvering. Few current global issues exemplify this complexity more than Türkiye’s evolving stance on the Uyghurs, a Turkic ethnic minority facing persecution in China’s Xinjiang province. The situation in Xinjiang is deeply troubling. Roughly a mil ...

From July 8 to 10, 2023, an international seminar titled "Protection of Uyghur Language and Culture in the Diaspora: Amidst the Uyghur Genocide" was successfully held in Ankara, organized by the Uyghur Academy. Twenty-nine Uyghur organizations and 135 Uyghur and foreign researchers, ministers, government officials, parliamentarians, Uyghur language volunteers, and Uyghur language teachers from 14 countries ...

By Dr Melanie O'Brien The plight of the Uyghur population in China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region (XUAR) has become well known in recent years. While Australia has spoken out against the persecution, it has not recognised China’s actions as genocide. The Uyghurs are an ethnic and religious minority. For many years, the Chinese government has been persecuting Uyghurs because of their minority status. This has  ...

Perhat Tursun’s “The Backstreets” has been wowing critics with its literary merit and its account of the hardships faced by Uyghurs in China. By Eve Glasberg, October 27, 2022 Perhat Tursun, author of "The Backstreets, is a leading Uyghur writer, poet, and social critic. He is seen here before he was detained by the Chinese authorities in 2018, and reportedly given a 16-year prison sentence. Serendipity has ...