Issue 27: June 15 – July 8, 2026 Welcome to the twenty-seventh issue of the Uyghur Reader, a biweekly content roundup curated by the staff of the Uyghur Human Rights Project.  Each issue features care...

Ablet Turdi On March 12, 2026, the Chinese Communist Party passed the Law on the Promotion of Ethnic Unity and Progress. It entered into force on July 1, 2026. The law provides a comprehensive legal f...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s unwillingness to condemn forced labor in China risks reducing pressure on the Chinese government to end its repression of ethnic Uyghurs.

By Ablet Turdi On March 12, 2026, China’s National People’s Congress passed the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, codifying Xi Jinping’s vision of a singular, Han-centric national identity i...

By Ablet Turdi For years, the Chinese government tightly restricted travel and independent access to the Uyghur Region while carrying out a well-documented genocide against Uyghurs and other Turkic pe...