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The Genocide Amendment: a real opportunity for the UK to stand up to genocide

March 4, 2021 By Xavier Hussein

On 23 February, the House of Lords backed Lord Alton’s Genocide Amendment to the UK Trade Bill in an effort to prevent the

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The history behind Uyghur persecution in China

February 23, 2021October 10, 2021 By Eloise Norris

The Xinjiang province, home to the Muslim minority Uyghurs, lies just under three-thousand kilometres from Beijing. Cultural differences between Uyghurs and the Han

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China’s ban of BBC World News

February 18, 2021February 20, 2021 By Rosie Wiggin

With China’s questionable coronavirus figures, the Uyghur ‘re-education’ camps and the recent banning of The BBC’s World News Channel in China, the question

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The EU’s complicity in the Uyghur genocide

February 1, 2021October 10, 2021 By John Merlin

On the 1st of January 2021, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and CCP leader Xi Jinping signed the China-EU Comprehensive Plan

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Hearts and minds in Tibet and Xinjiang

January 23, 2021October 10, 2021 By Anna Banks

The periphery territories of Xinjiang and Tibet present a geopolitical security nightmare for China’s military given their relative geographic isolation and the sparsity

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What is the Uyghur genocide?

January 19, 2021February 1, 2021 By Diana Jalea

Who are the Uyghurs?  The Uyghurs are a Muslim minority, most of whom live in the Xinjiang region, in Western China. Culturally, the

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The Uyghurs – Forced organ harvesting

January 13, 2021October 10, 2021 By Laura Bierer-Nielsen

Approximately 60,000-100,000 organ transplants take place in China every year, six to ten times that which the Chinese Communist Party admit to. But

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