Uyghur
What can you do to help?
Donate to UHRP to support their work on protecting the Uyghurs.
Contact your congress members and urge them to support Uyghur human rights.
Email congress members to stand AGAINST forced Uyghur starvation.
Write or call the Chinese Embassy to urge them to stop concentration camps and release those held, stop taking away children and inserting Chinese men into Uyghur family homes, and express why religious freedom is so important: chinaembpress_us@mfa.gov.cn.
Sign petitions like: help stop forced organ harvesting in China, pass the Uyghur policy act, tell Anta to stop profiting from Uyghur forced labor, free Uyghurs from forced labor in China, free the Uyghurs, petition for the immediate release of Professor Rahile Dawut and other Uyghur scholars.
Physically volunteer or intern with UHRP.
Continue to talk about and spread awareness on what is happening to the Uyghurs.
Organizations That Help
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Uyghur Human Rights Project
"The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) promotes the rights of the Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim peoples in East Turkistan, referred to by the Chinese government as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, through research-based advocacy. UHRP was founded in 2004 as a project of the Uyghur American Association and became an independent nonprofit organization in 2016."
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Save Uyghur
"The Save Uyghur Campaign is an educational and advocacy project aimed at raising public awareness and resolve to help the Uyghur people. The project is a concerted effort to tie media exposure, public relations, and government action together into a single strategy aimed at the liberation of the Uyghurs from the oppression they face at the hands of the Chinese government."
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Uyghur American Association
"The Uyghur American Association (UAA) is a non-partisan organization with the chief goals of promoting and preserving Uyghur culture, and supporting the right of Uyghur people to use peaceful, democratic means to determine their own political futures. Based in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area, the UAA serves as the primary hub for the Uyghur diaspora community in the United States."
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Justice For All
"The Uyghurs are a predominantly Muslim, Turkic ethnicity who live in China’s North-Western Xinjiang Province traditionally known as East Turkistan. In recent years, however, the current government of China has stepped up its repression of this community, destroying traditional neighborhoods and rounding up well over a million men and sending them into concentration camps for “re-education” and forced labor. The disappearance of so many (some say as many as three million are affected) has created a palpable atmosphere of fear in the region and extending to the Uyghur community in the United States. In the last decades of increased globalization, western companies have become complicit in the repression of the Uyghur people. Some US companies have been found purchasing clothing made by slave labor in the region and the tech sector has been implicated in the vast surveillance system imposed on cities in Xinjiang."