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#BREAKING: US Government declares the Chinese government's persecution of Uyghur Muslims a genocide.
The move comes after sustained bi-partisan pressure from #IPAC 🇺🇸 members, led by @SenRubioPress and @SenatorMenendez.
axios.com/us-declares-ch…
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We are honoured to receive personal thanks from 🇹🇼 President @iingwen after #IPAC called for Taiwan's inclusion in the World Health Assembly and WHO activities.
It is wrong and dangerous to exclude Taiwan's expertise from global efforts to fight COVID-19.
focustaiwan.tw/politics/20201…
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#IPAC advisor @adrianzenz giving harrowing reports of forced labour and birth suppression of #Uyghurs in Xinjiang to @BBCNewsnight.
Forced labour and internment in 're-education camps' are attempts to "coercively re-engineer Uyghur society".
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 member Lord @DavidAltonHL proposes amendment to the Trade Bill which would revoke trade deals with states perpetrating genocide.
"For 70 years we have failed to recognise our wholly inadequate response [to genocide]. Tonight we have a chance to put that right."
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Urgent Question raised in the UK House of Lords on state sponsored forced labour in Xinjiang.
#IPAC 🇬🇧 co-chair Baroness Helena Kennedy urges the UK to use 'Magnitsky' sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for abuses against Uyghurs.
"Inaction becomes complicity."
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BREAKING: #IPAC 🇳🇿 co-chairs Louisa Wall MP and Simon O'Connor MP write to PM @jacindaardern and FM @NanaiaMahuta calling for New Zealand to introduce a Magnitsky-style human rights sanctions regime.
Failure to do so risks NZ being a "safe haven" for perpetrators of abuses.
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The following countries have all suspended their extradition treaties with Hong Kong since #IPAC and @hk_watch launched our #NOEXTRADITION to HK campaign:
🇦🇺 Australia
🇨🇦 Canada
🇳🇿 New Zealand
🇺🇸 United States
#StandTogether
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#IPAC 🇨🇦 co-chair Garnett Genuis MP addresses the Special Committee on Canada-China Relations.
@GarnettGenuis raised concerns of 'elite capture' and the attempts of the Chinese Communist Party's United Front Work Department to illegitimately influence democratic processes.
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#IPAC statement on the 22nd anniversary of the persecution of the Falun Gong.
We take this solemn anniversary to remember all ethnic and religious minorities persecuted by the Chinese government.
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#LIVE NOW: #IPAC 🇯🇵 satellite @Japan_pac hold parliamentary meeting to protest the exclusion of opposition lawmakers from Hong Kong's Legislative Council.
Watch below 👇 twitter.com/Japan_pac/stat…
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Canadian government issues advisory for businesses operating in Xinjiang, citing widespread forced labour and grave human rights abuses.
This answers calls made by #IPAC 🇨🇦 members for supply chain risk profiles to be updated in light of abuses.
theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…
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BREAKING: #IPAC Statement on evidence of widespread Uyghur forced labour in global solar supply chains.
Xinjiang produces 45% of the world’s solar-grade polysilicon.
Democratic states must act to ensure supplies of critical green technologies are untainted by these abuses.
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#IPAC 🇪🇺 🇵🇱 member @AnnaFotyga_PE MEP leads European Parliament support for deepening economic and political relationship with Taiwan 🇹🇼, resulting in the first reference to the "Republic of China" in an EU document. twitter.com/AnnaFotyga_PE/…
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#IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair @MiriamMLex highlights Beijing's coercive diplomacy and calls for reduction in EU's strategic dependency on P.R. China.
Full interview with @ETtodaytw: youtube.com/watch?v=bS7asr…
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HSBC boss Mark Tucker accused of attack on democracy over Hong Kong | The Times
#IPAC members @MPIainDS 🇬🇧 and @uffeelbaek 🇩🇰 call on @HSBC to release frozen assets of pro-democracy activists and explain reports of refusal to recognise #BNO passports.
thetimes.co.uk/article/hsbc-b…
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Kosovo announces diplomatic boycott of #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics | Alsat
Growing global momentum behind #IPAC call for #NoRightsNoShow
alsat.mk/kosova-bojkoto…
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PM Boris Johnson’s China policy riddled with contradictions | Sunday Guardian
#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @RhonddaBryant
MP writes on the UK government's #IntegratedReview strategy paper.
sundayguardianlive.com/world/integrat… via @SundayGuardian
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BREAKING: Italy's Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously adopts a motion issuing the "strongest possible condemnation" of human rights abuses in the Uyghur region.
The motion led by #IPAC 🇮🇹 members named abuses including forced sterilization, mass internment and forced labour. twitter.com/LauraHarth/sta…
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Australian MPs condemn China's Hong Kong crackdown.
#IPAC 🇦🇺 co-chair @kimbakit: "Australia must be a strong voice in standing up for the international order, and for the democratic values that we hold so dear, as do the people of Hong Kong."
theage.com.au/world/asia/aus…
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LIVE: #IPAC 🇬🇧 member @Nus_Ghani moves #UyghurGenocide motion:
“That this House believes that Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are suffering Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide.”
Watch here: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/0a…
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#BREAKING UK House of Lords votes to accept amendment proposed by #IPAC members @DavidAltonHL and Baroness Kennedy.
The amendment revokes trade deals with states perpetrating genocide, as judged by the UK High Court.
The amendment will now proceed to be debated in the Commons.
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#IPAC 🇯🇵 co-chairs Rep. @ShioriYamao and Rep. Gen Nakatani lead efforts to propose Magnitsky-style human rights sanctions legislation before the end of the parliamentary term.
asia.nikkei.com/Politics/China…
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#BREAKING: #IPAC co-chairs call on @UNHumanRights Chief @mbachelet to release long awaited report on violations against Uyghurs, before the #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics.
As the world’s attention turns towards Beijing, the PRC government must be held to account for its actions.
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The PRC government is carrying out a global campaign of intimidation against all who dare criticise its authoritarian rule.
Legislators from 20+ countries have signed the #IPAC pledge to advocate on behalf of those facing extradition to the PRC.
#DoNotExtradite
#StandTogether
