Letter to USCIRF: Please Raise the Issue of Regional Anti-Conversion Laws in India
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SRI LANKA: Multi-Faith letter calls on the PM of Sri Lanka to abandon the introduction of anti-conversion laws known to “restrict legitimate religious freedom and target religious minorities.”
22 March 2021 PRESS RELEASE, Washington, DC., Following the recent report that the Ministry of Buddhasasana, Religious, and Cultural Affairs is currently drafting a legal framework for the implementation of anti-conversion laws, the multi-faith International Religious Freedom Roundtable sent out a letter, containing 36 signatures, on Monday, March 22, calling on the Prime Minister of …
China Sues Dr. Adrian Zenz, Leading Research on Persecution of Uyghurs
During a press conference on Thursday, 18 March 2021, Deputy Propaganda head of the Chinese Communist Party in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region publicly accused German scholar Dr. Adrian Zenz of ‘fabricating’ allegations that the CCP is engaging in multiple types of persecution and human rights violations against Uyghur and other Turkic minorities, including surveillance, arbitrary …
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Australia is Perhaps Next in Uyghur Genocide Determination (…Or Not)
Today, March 15th, 2021, the Australian Parliament will be voting whether to pass or reject a motion designating the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of Uyghurs as genocide. Such a determination would follow suit after the United States, Canada, and The Netherlands have all made similar designations. The motion, introduced by Australian Senator Rex Patrick, states …
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33 Experts Outline How China Has Violated the Genocide Convention
In March 2021, Newlines Institute released a groundbreaking report The Uyghur Genocide: An Examination of China’s Breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention, in which 33 independent experts on China, genocide prevention, Uyghurs, human rights, and ethnic policy come to the same conclusion: “The People’s Republic of China bears State responsibility for committing genocide against Uyghurs …
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India Repatriates Rohingya While Bangladesh Moves Them to Isolated Island
On Monday, March 8, 2021, it was revealed by government officials that India has started the process of repatriating Rohingya refugees to Myanmar; upwards of 150 have been detained for their illegal residency in Jammu and Kashmir and are currently in the process of being deported back to their home country, despite the tremendous human …
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Human Rights Council Event: Grant Every Child Every Right in China
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