The opening of a new air cargo route between Belgium and China’s Xinjiang is being met with opposition led by members of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), over the widespread forced labour abuses and suspected Genocide taking place in the region. The air cargo route links commercial hub Liège with Kashgar, the second largest […]
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IPAC MPs condemn ‘Olympics of Shame’ on eve of Beijing Opening Ceremony
An international coalition of over 70 legislators from North America, Europe and Australia have pledged to redouble efforts to hold the Chinese government accountable for its human rights violations in the Uyghur Region, Hong Kong and elsewhere in China on the eve of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. The legislators, all members of the cross-party […]
IPAC calls on UN to release Xinjiang report ahead of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics
Lawmakers from 20 countries have written to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights calling for the release of a long awaited report into human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) before the beginning of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony. The letter, attached, notes that it has been over […]
IPAC Newsletter 28 January 2022
IPAC LEADS CALLS TO BLOCK FINANCING OF XINJIANG ABUSES: Parliamentarians from the EU, India, UK, Australia and Canada called on their governments to create investment blacklists to block banks from funding firms perpetrating forced labour and other abuses against Uyghurs. The letters, addressed to the respective finance ministers of each legislature, follow revelations that HSBC has traded […]
