Category: Uyghur

Corporate Ethics Czar Starting Human-Rights Probes Around Canadian Imports From China

Ottawa’s corporate-ethics watchdog is set to announce multiple investigations into whether Canadian companies are importing products made through human-rights abuses in China, a move advocates have sought for years. The Liberals appointed Sheri Meyerhoffer as the first Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise in April 2019, and advocates and MPs have since criticized the government for…


Rights Group: Uyghur Student Missing in Hong Kong After Texting That He Was Interrogated by Police

HONG KONG—A Uyghur student has been missing in Hong Kong for more than two weeks since he sent a message saying he was being interrogated by Chinese police at the city’s airport, a human rights group said Friday. Amnesty International said Abuduwaili Abudureheman, who was born in Xinjiang in western China, traveled to Hong Kong…


Canadian Public Pension Fund Investments in China Draw Heightened Scrutiny

Investments in China by Canada’s largest public pension funds are facing increased scrutiny amid worsening relations between the two countries and allegations that some of those investments are funding the oppression of China’s Uyghur minority. Recently, representatives of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, which manages the pensions of…


Senate Report Finds 2 Wuhan Lab Leaks

Where did COVID-19 really come from? A Senate report is shining the spotlight on Wuhan’s infamous virology lab, concluding there could have been not one, but two virus leaks. But key data points are still missing, and the U.S. intelligence community is holding back. Meanwhile, Beijing is firmly denying the lab leak theory. Topics in…


LIVE 7 PM ET: House Committee on CCP Holds Hearing on ‘The Chinese Communist Party’s Ongoing Uyghur Genocide’

The House Selecte Committee on the CCP holds a hearing on “The Chinese Communist Party’s Ongoing Uyghur Genocide” at 7:00 p.m. ET on March 23. Ms. Gulbahar Haitiwaji, concentration camp survivor and author of “How I Survived a Chinese “Reeducation” Camp: A Uyghur Woman’s Story”; Ms. Qelbinur Sidik, a human rights advocate and concentration camp witness; Dr….


LIVE NOW: House Committee on CCP Holds Hearing on ‘The Chinese Communist Party’s Ongoing Uyghur Genocide’

The House Selecte Committee on the CCP holds a hearing on “The Chinese Communist Party’s Ongoing Uyghur Genocide” at 7:00 p.m. ET on March 23. Ms. Gulbahar Haitiwaji, concentration camp survivor and author of “How I Survived a Chinese “Reeducation” Camp: A Uyghur Woman’s Story”; Ms. Qelbinur Sidik, a human rights advocate and concentration camp witness; Dr….


House Committee on CCP Holds Hearing on ‘The Chinese Communist Party’s Ongoing Uyghur Genocide’

The House Selecte Committee on the CCP holds a hearing on “The Chinese Communist Party’s Ongoing Uyghur Genocide” at 7:00 p.m. ET on March 23. Ms. Gulbahar Haitiwaji, concentration camp survivor and author of “How I Survived a Chinese “Reeducation” Camp: A Uyghur Woman’s Story”; Ms. Qelbinur Sidik, a human rights advocate and concentration camp witness; Dr….


The Continued Fight for Religious Freedom in China: A Hudson Institute Event

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been and continues to persecute religious minorities and commit countless atrocities. Even though the CCP tries to cover it up, evidence indicates that the regime is committing mass sterilizations, separating children from their families, and putting those who dare to practice their religion into labor camps. What should America…


Canada Pension Plan Signals Exit From Alleged China Slave Labour Investments

Human rights advocates have criticized the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) for passively investing about $14 billion in companies that allegedly profit from slave labour camps in China. Centre Ice Canadians, which describes itself as an advocacy group for centrist Canadians, has urged CPP to investigate two of its equity indices allegedly linked with Uyghur internment…


Motion Calls on Ottawa to Recognize Beijing’s Coercion of Overseas Uyghurs to Return to China

Following Parliament’s declaration of China’s repression of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims as genocide, a Liberal MP is introducing a motion to call on the federal government to further provide support to members of this minority group who fled the country but continue to face intimidation from the regime. In February 2021, parliamentarians voted unanimously…