More than 1.8 million people are in camps in China
The Uyghurs are a Turkic ethnic group native to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. They primarily follow Islam and speak the Uyghur language, a Turkic language. The Uyghurs have a distinct cultural and historical background, with influences from Central Asian, Persian, and Chinese civilizations.
Today, there are approximately 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Muslim and Turkic people in detention and forced labor camps in Xinjiang, China. They are under nearly 24-hour-a-day surveillance. They are subjected to forced sterilization, organ harvesting, and labor. This has been described as the biggest internment of an ethnic and religious group since the Holocaust. You may not realize if but you probably have products in your home that passed through Uyghur slave labor.
The Chinese government treats the Uyghur minority as being less than human.
Hilton’s operations in Xinjiang do not exist in a vacuum. In a region where freedom of movement, speech, and religion are violently suppressed, businesses cannot operate independently of the state. Any local partnerships, staffing decisions, or supply chains are at risk of being entangled in forced labor and state-controlled repression.
It is long past time for Hilton to act. We need them to leave Xinjiang, and a commitment never to return while mass atrocities continue.Tell them you want them out of the genocide business.
The Congressional Uyghur Caucus is dedicated to building pressure by Congress to address the severe human rights abuses perpetrated by the Chinese government against the Uyghur people in China.
This bipartisan caucus is co-chaired by Congressmen Tom Suozzi (D-NY) and Chris Smith (R-NJ). The caucus will bring together Members of Congress who have been advocating for better policy on the Uyghurs.
Please contact your Member of Congress and ask them to join this important caucus.
The Uyghur Policy Act (H.R. 2635), introduced by Representatives Young Kim (R-CA) and Ami Bera (D-CA), and S. 1542, introduced by Senator John Curtis (R-UT), would strengthen and coordinate the U.S. response to human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other persecuted minorities in China. It directs the Secretary of State to oversee Uyghur-related human rights policy, increases accountability for abuses including https://youtu.be/HfcyMi2pdxUdetention camps, empowers advocates, and addresses transnational repression targeting the Uyghur diaspora.
Tell your senators and representative to cosponsor and pass the Uyghur Policy Act.
Shein has faced scrutiny from lawmakers and human rights advocates over the lack of transparency in its supply chain and links to cotton sourced from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Independent testing has found Xinjiang cotton in Shein garments.
Fast fashion shouldn’t rely on genocide. Tell Shein to stop profiting from Uyghur slave labor and genocide.
Watch All Static & Noise
Jewher, a Uyghur teen from China with little English, lands in the U.S. after she is violently separated from her father at the Beijing airport as he is detained. Abduweli, a linguist and poet, imprisoned and tortured for teaching Uyghur language to 6-year-olds, makes his way to Istanbul upon his release. Testimony and action from survivors of China’s network of “re-education camps” and their families, in Turkey, Kazakhstan, Europe and the United States, infuse All Static & Noise with an urgency that exposes the mass brutality of state-sponsored oppression in Western China. Together these voices highlight the moral dilemma between risking the safety of families back home by speaking out and the necessity of exposing atrocities in the hope that global awareness will bring change. With each voice we are brought closer to one of the most egregious human rights disasters of our moment. All Static & Noise honors those willing to speak out and poses difficult questions that are imperatives in our inter-connected global economy of the 21st century.
Director David Novack and Producer Janice Englehart bring together collaborators from around the world in a film, born of tragedy and infused with an inspired sense of hope, that reminds us that in the darkest of times, the human spirit shines brightest in the company of others.