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Uyghur Organizations

Uyghur Human Rights Project
https://uhrp.org/

Campaign for Uyghurs
https://campaignforuyghurs.org/

Uyghur American Association
https://www.uyghuraa.org/

World Uyghur Congress
https://www.uyghurcongress.org/en/

Uyghur Cultural Advancement Association
https://www.ucaa-us.org/

Uyghur Cultural Heritage Preservation
https://www.uyghurism.com/

Silk Road Peace Project
http://silkroadpeace.org/

Uyghur Genocide Reports

UYGHUR RACE AS THE ENEMY: China’s Legalized Authoritarian Oppression & Mass Imprisonment
Yale MacMillan Center
August 2024
https://gsp.yale.edu/sites/default/files/uyghur_report_final_copy.pdf

Sexual Violence and Birth Prevention: Conceptualizing Beijing’s Attacks on Uyghur Reproductive Capacities as a Settler Colonialist Strategy of Attritional Genocide
Cambridge Journal of Law, Politics, and Art
July 2024
https://www.cjlpa.org/post/sexual-violence-and-birth-prevention-conceptualizing-beijing-s-attacks-on-uyghur-reproductive-capac

OHCHR Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China
UN High Commissioner of Human Rights
August 2022
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/countries/2022-08-31/22-08-31-final-assesment.pdf

Uyghur Tribunal Judgment
Uyghur Tribunal
December 2021
https://uyghurtribunal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/UT_Judgment_E-PDF_activelinks_20Feb2023_FINAL.pdf

“To Make Us Slowly Disappear”: The Chinese Government’s Assault on the Uyghurs
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
November 2021
https://www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/November_2021_Uyghur_Report.pdf

“Break Their Lineage, Break Their Roots”: Chinese Government Crimes against Humanity Targeting Uyghurs and Other Turkic Muslims
Human Rights Watch
April 2021
https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/media_2021/04/china0421_web_2.pdf

THE UYGHUR GENOCIDE: An Examination of China’s Breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention
Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy
March 2021
https://newlinesinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Chinas-Breaches-of-the-GC3.pdf

Declarations of Genocide

  1. US Department of State, January 2021
    https://2017-2021.state.gov/determination-of-the-secretary-of-state-on-atrocities-in-xinjiang/
  2. Canadian Parliament, February 2021
    https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/22/americas/canada-china-xinjiang-genocide-intl-hnk/
  3. Dutch Parliament, February 2021
    https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/europe/netherlands-china-xinjiang-genocide-intl-hnk/
  4. UK House of Commons, April 2021
    https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/22/world/uk-china-uyghur-genocide-motion-gbr-intl/
  5. Lithuanian Parliament, May 2021
    https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1413940/lithuanian-parliament-passes-resolution-condemning-uighur-genocide-in-china
  6. Czech Senate, June 2021
    https://ipac.global/czech-senate-declares-china-perpetrating-genocide-on-uyghurs-ahead-of-key-vote-in-belgian-parliament/
  7. Belgian Parliament, June 2021
    https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/genocide-declarations-06152021171101.html
  8. French Parliament, January 2022
    https://www.voanews.com/a/french-parliament-s-uyghur-genocide-declaration-angers-china/6406506.html

Legislation

Uyghur Genocide Intelligence Review Act (Introduced May 2023)
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3349/committees

Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023 (Passed House, March 2023)
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1154

Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (Law, December 2021)
https://www.cbp.gov/trade/forced-labor/UFLPA

Uyghur Human Rights Protection Act (Introduced March 2021)
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1630/text

Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 (Law, May 2020)
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3744

Books

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The War on the Uyghurs

by Sean R. Roberts

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No Escape

by Nury Turkel

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In the Camps

by Darren Byler

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Eurasian Crossroads

by James Millward

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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night

by Tahir Hamut Izgil

Uyghur Poems
Uyghur Poems

Edited by Aziz Isa Elkun

Uyghur Identity and Culture: A Global Diaspora in a Time of Crisis
Uyghur Identity and Culture: A Global Diaspora in a Time of Crisis

Edited By Rebecca Clothey and Dilmurat Mahmut

Uyghur Women Activists in the Diaspora: Restorying a Genocide
Uyghur Women Activists in the Diaspora: Restorying a Genocide

Susan J. Palmer, Dilmurat Mahmut, Abdulmuqtedir Udun

Resources

Smithsonian Magazine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/is-china-committing-genocide-against-the-uyghurs-180979490/

The Xinjiang Papers (2019 leaked Chinese government documents) - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html

BBC: Uyghurs
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-22278037

Don’t Look Away from China’s Atrocities Against the Uyghurs - US Institute of Peace
https://www.usip.org/publications/2023/04/dont-look-away-chinas-atrocities-against-uyghurs

US Holocaust Memorial Museum
https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/countries/china/case-study/current-risks/chinese-persecution-of-the-uyghurs

Xinjiang Police Files - International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-cables/xinjiang-police-files-uyghur-mugshots-detention/

China: Draconian repression of Muslims in Xinjiang amounts to crimes against humanity - Amnesty International
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/06/china-draconian-repression-of-muslims-in-xinjiang-amounts-to-crimes-against-humanity/

Investigation reveals Chinese seafood caught and processed using forced labor sold in U.S. - PBS NewsHour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQqt5Pwg83c

Xinjiang Documentation project - The University of British Columbia
https://xinjiang.sppga.ubc.ca/

Lesson Plans

3 lessons on the Uyghur Genocide for middle and high school
Uyghur Genocide Lesson Plans.pdf

Take Action

Speak Out: Educate People About the Genocide

Stop Organ Harvesting in China
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/congress-help-stop-forced-organ-harvesting-in-china

Pass the Uyghur Policy Act
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/pass-the-uyghur-human-rights-policy-act-of-2021

Stop Uyghur Forced Labor
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-anta-sports-to-stop-making-money-from-uyghur-slave-labor

Free the Uyghurs
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/uyghurs_in_china_loc/

This curriculum is a project of the California Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education, established by the JFCS Holocaust Center, with support from the California Department of Education, Marin County Office of Education, and the State of California.
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