The Department of Homeland Security is coming under pressure to sequester shipments of Labubu dolls coming into the US due to forced labor concerns.
A test found that 16 of 20 of Pop Mart’s plush monster toys were comprised of some cotton from Xinjiang, where China is accused of carrying out human rights violations...
For years, the world has watched with growing concern as reports emerged from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region about mass detentions, surveillance, forced labour, and the systematic targeting of Uyghur identity. What Beijing describes as a “counter-extremism” campaign has increasingly been condemned by rights groups, researchers, and several governments...
The “Regulations on the Protection of State Secrets in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region,” which took effect on March 1, 2026, is a de facto local extension of China’s national state secrecy framework. In a region characterized by high levels of security governance and information control, the legal adjustments...
For decades, the steady flow of Tibetans escaping across the Himalayas into India and Nepal served as a barometer of conditions inside Tibet.
From the late 1990s through the mid‑2000s, several thousand Tibetans sought exile every year, bringing firsthand accounts of political restrictions, cultural pressures and daily life under Chinese rule.
But...
Tibetans living in exile in Dharamshala on Sunday urged the Chinese government to reveal the whereabouts of the 11th Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, who was ‘abducted’ in 1995, and demanded his release.
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, regarded by Tibetans as second only to the Dalai Lama, was recognised by the...
On May 17, 1995, Chinese authorities kidnapped a six-year-old Tibetan boy, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, just days after His Holiness the Dalai Lama recognized him as the reincarnated Panchen Lama, one of Tibetan Buddhism’s most important leaders. While Tibetans in exile celebrated the Panchen Lama’s 37th birthday last month, neither he...
China’s boarding-school system in Tibet is seen as a calculated effort towards cultural erasure and ideological control. Through imposition of the Mandarin language, indoctrination with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) thought, and separation of children from their families, Beijing is trying to shape a generation of Tibetans who may no...
A new report by Human Rights Watch argues that the compulsory use of Chinese as the primary language in schools in Tibet raises “serious concerns under international human rights law”.
Detailing the effects of the “Children’s Speech Harmonization Plan” five years ago, as well as more recent updates to the “National Common...
The Regional Tibetan Youth Congress New York and New Jersey (RTYCNYNJ) organised protest outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington D.C.; around 100 Tibetans from RTYC, Tibetan activist Thupten and Uyghur activists also joined the protest and the call on May 10, 2026.
The protest is part of the event organised...
Campaign for Uyghurs (CFU) on Mother's Day extended wishes to mothers across the world while drawing attention to the condition of Uyghur women and mothers living under "Chinese oppression" in East Turkistan.
Allegations of Forced Sterilisation and Population Control
According to a press release issued by CFU, Uyghur women continue to...
