Jubilee Campaign

More Nations Formally Recognizing the Genocide Against Uyghurs in China

Over the past week, two nations join the ever-growing list of those which recognize the Chinese government’s treatment of Uyghur and Turkic Muslims as genocide. Months earlier, in January 2021, the United States under the former Trump presidential administration was the first nation to formally make such a genocide determination. In the weeks and months […]

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Joint-Letter in Support of Armenian POWs in Nagorno-Karbakh and Freedom of Religion in the Region

19 organizations and individuals join letter calling on the US State Department to place pressure on Azerbaijan to release Armenian prisoners of war and address religious freedom concerns in the region.  While the welcome news was released this week that 15 Armenian prisoners of war were released, there are still hundreds of POWs who remain in Azerbaijani

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Algerian Government Continues its Unlawful and Arbitrary Closure of Churches

In early June 2021, news broke that the Algerian government arbitrarily shut down three more churches in a single day, one of which being the renowned Oratoire Church in Oran, with the other two located in El-Ayaid and Ain-Turk. Interestingly, the decision to arbitrarily close these three churches had been made back in 2020; however,

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Expert Adrian Zenz Releases New Report That Further Sheds Light on Coercive Population Manipulation in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

In another groundbreaking report, Adrian Zenz, Senior Fellow in China Studies at Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, once again sheds light on the coercive population control measures the Chinese government is undertaking in Uyghur-populated regions and examines primary source documents to breakdown China’s goal of “optimizing the ethnic population structure”. Despite the vagueness of such

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A Blasphemy Case Victory in Pakistan, Meanwhile a Major Setback in The Maldives

On the afternoon of 3 June 2021, Pakistani Christian couple Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Emmanuel were released from an eight-year-long hellish struggle against blasphemy laws, false allegations, postponed court dates, and prolonged detention. Nearly a decade of insecurity and uncertainty has wreaked havoc on the couple’s life, but even with an acquittal, they are not

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China Permits Couples to Have Three Children, But What Will This Mean for Uyghurs?

This week, China made a groundbreaking announcement that married couples would now be permitted to have up to three children, reversing the previous two-child policy that has been implemented since 2016. The policy shift was brought on by two major observations: (1) late 2020 census data exhibits a major decline in birth rates, lower than

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