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#IPAC 🇮🇪 co-chair Senator @malcolmbyrne welcomes announcement that the Irish government will not send representatives to the #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics.
Byrne calls for Ireland to push for a relocation of the Games so long as gross human rights abuses in China continue. twitter.com/malcolmbyrne/s…
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"We have not forgotten your plight and we will not cease to long for your freedom."
Message from #IPAC 🇨🇿 co-chairs Sen. @PavelFischer and Jan Lipavský MP to Michael Korvig and Michael Spavor on the 2nd anniversary of their arrest and imprisonment in China.
#FreeChinaHostages twitter.com/JanLipavsky/st…
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#IPAC 🇨🇦 co-chair @GarnettGenuis MP tables petition calling for a stronger response from the Canadian government to all human rights violations in China, highlights persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. twitter.com/GarnettGenuis/…
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#IPAC 🇳🇿 co-chairs Louisa Wall MP and Simon O'Connor MP call on Justice Minister @KrisinMana to block the extradition of New Zealand citizens and residents to China.
China's promises on the treatment and fair trial of those extradited have been broken in numerous cases.
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#IPAC 🇳🇿 co-chair @SenPaterson speaks out against anti-Asian racism:
It is "morally abhorrent" to blame the Chinese people for the actions of the Chinese Communist Party.
brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/feder…
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Parliamentary group calls for end to China's bullying of Taiwan and Lithuania | Taiwan News
Coverage of #IPAC calls for democratic states to stand with Lithuania and Taiwan as they come under increasing pressure from Beijing.
taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4285917
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EU puts China agreement on hold | Deutsche Welle
Interview with #IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair @bueti on the impact of Chinese government sanctions against EU parliamentarians on the EU-China #CAI investment deal.
dw.com/de/eu-legt-chi…
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En tværpolitisk og stærk gruppe på fire medlemmer af Folketinget har tilsluttet sig #IPAC for at sikre en konstruktiv og kritisk holdning til Kina fra Danmarks side. Læs @Ammitzboell_K, @uffeelbaek, @naserkhaderdk og Karsten Hønge i @berlingske:
berlingske.dk/kommentarer/kl…
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Xinjiang: more than half a million forced to pick cotton, report suggests | The Guardian
Further coverage of report by #IPAC advisor @adrianzenz into state sponsored forced labour programmes in Xinjiang.
theguardian.com/world/2020/dec…
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#BREAKING: Over 30 #IPAC members from Europe call on EU Presidents @vonderleyen @CharlesMichel and Trade Commissioner @VDombrovskis to intensify efforts to establish an EU-Taiwan 🇪🇺🇹🇼 Bilateral Investment Agreement.
#StandTogether #StandWithTaiwan
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"parliamentarians from across the globe are realising that what happens to Taiwan matters to all of us."
#IPAC 🇳🇿 co-chair Louisa Wall MP writes in the Sunday Guardian backing Taiwan's participation in the World Health Assembly.
#LetTaiwanHelp #WHA
sundayguardianlive.com/news/admit-tai…
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Replying to #IPAC co-chairs 🇫🇷 @AndreGattolin and @iflorennes92, French Foreign Minister @JY_LeDrian stressed the need for a "better regulation of unfair commercial practices", adding that Chinese threats to Australia have no place in the rules-based international order.
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#IPAC 🇪🇺 member @AnnaFotyga_PE leads calls for a Bilateral Investment Agreement between the EU and Taiwan as "likeminded partners" in human rights, freedom and democracy.
IPAC MEPs @MiriamMLex @EnginEroglu_FW and @LegaSve also join the initiative. twitter.com/AnnaFotyga_PE/…
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“Public health is the loser when any jurisdiction is excluded from participating in the World Health Assembly”
#IPAC 🇦🇺 co-chair @SenPaterson backs Taiwan to participate in the upcoming @WHO summit.
#LetTaiwanHelp
#WHA
sbs.com.au/news/letting-t…
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China retaliates after US, EU and UK impose sanctions | Financial Times
Beijing imposes travel bans on several #IPAC parliamentarians and advisors after co-ordinated sanctions against treatment of Uyghurs.
ft.com/content/278716…
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MPs pile pressure on Boris Johnson to boycott Beijing Olympics | Telegraph
#IPAC members @DavidAltonHL @MPIainDS @timloughton @Nus_Ghani and Baroness Kennedy among signatories calling for UK to stage diplomatic boycott of #Beijing2022.
#NoRightsNoShow
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
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#IPAC 🇮🇹 member and Vice-President of Italy's Foreign Affairs Committee @PaoloFormentin1 addresses the Italian Parliament questioning attempts to rush through the EU-China #CAI investment deal. twitter.com/LauraHarth/sta…
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BREAKING: #IPAC’s @bueti and @MiriamMLex announce an EU Parliament Hong Kong Watch group. twitter.com/MiriamMLex/sta…
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#IPAC members also led a resolution on Hong Kong in the European Parliament.
IPAC Co-Chair @MiriamMLex MEP said that the EU could not be a "credible actor" if it rewarded governments committing human rights abuses with lucrative investment deals.
twitter.com/ipacglobal/sta…
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"The Chinese Communist Party must know that the eyes of the world are on the abuses that are going on in China"
Interview with #IPAC 🇮🇪 co-chair Senator @malcolmbyrne on calls for a diplomatic and corporate boycott of the #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics.
rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…
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Support for #IPAC calls for 🇹🇼 to join the World Health Assembly from @taipei_times editorial.
"Given Taiwan’s experience, expertise and success in containing the pandemic, the WHA should allow the nation to participate in, and have access to, the WHO."
taipeitimes.com/News/editorial…
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G7 commits to removing forced labor from global supply chains - U.S. says | Reuters
Ahead of the #G7Summit #IPAC co-chairs wrote to G7 leaders calling for measures to remove Uyghur forced labour from global supply chains.
reuters.com/article/g7-sum…
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"It is time to call the horror by its name."
Radio France Internationale interview with #IPAC members @SamuelCogolati 🇧🇪 @AndreGattolin 🇫🇷 and @Nus_Ghani 🇬🇧 as the Belgian Parliament debates whether the state persecution of Uyghurs constitutes Genocide.
rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/fr…