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#IPAC 🇱🇹 co-chair @DSakaliene MP leads a resolution in the Lithuanian Parliament condemning systemic torture and sexual abuse in Xinjiang's prison camps.
The resolution also calls for international investigations into alleged genocide against Uyghurs.
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"Short of their proposed guided tour of the concentration camps, what evidence would they consider sufficient to recognise this genocide?"
#IPAC 🇨🇦 co-chair @GarnettGenuis MP urges the Canadian government to label China's treatment of Uyghurs as "genocide". twitter.com/GarnettGenuis/…
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"Anyone who says that there is not enough evidence is simply too cowardly to look through the window of their computer screen."
#IPAC 🇨🇦 co-chair @GarnettGenuis MP speaks in the Canadian Parliament in support of an opposition motion declaring a "genocide" in Xinjiang.
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Today the Canadian Parliament will vote on the #UyghurGenocide motion, receiving cross party backing from #IPAC 🇨🇦 co-chairs @GarnettGenuis MP and Hon. @IrwinCotler. twitter.com/GarnettGenuis/…
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BREAKING: Canada recognizes China's treatment of Uyghurs as a genocide.
The Canadian Parliament passed the #UyghurGenocide resolution backed by #IPAC 🇨🇦 members @GarnettGenuis MP @IrwinCotler and others.
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Holocaust survivors urge Boris Johnson to stand up for Uighurs as genocide law fight resumes | Politico
#GenocideAmendment to the UK Trade Bill led by #IPAC 🇬🇧 member @DavidAltonHL returns to the House of Lords today.
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EU mulls action on China amid Hong Kong crackdown | Politico
#IPAC calls for #NoExtradition to Hong Kong considered by European governments.
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @DavidAltonHL: The UK government's attempts to build trade cooperation with China contradicts its claims that it will not pursue trade agreements with states accused of genocide.
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"The Genocide Convention is about preventing atrocities, not waiting to count the bodies."
#IPAC co-chair Baroness Kennedy highlights the testimony of Uyghur women in building evidence for alleged genocide in Xinjiang.
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"Silence is tacit consent."
#IPAC advisor @AkiraIgata writes in Sankei Shimbun calling for Japan to take a tougher stance on the Chinese government's abuse of human rights in Xinjiang.
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“It is about time that the German government realised that actors for the Chinese government could pose a threat to exiled Hong Kongers.”
#IPAC 🇩🇪 member @GydeJ MdB on an interior ministry report on Chinese state intimidation of activists in Germany.
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"The experts have spoken, the survivors have spoken and now Parliament has spoken."
#IPAC 🇨🇦 co-chair @GarnettGenuis MP on the declaring of #UyghurGenocide by Canada's Parliament.
Genuis calls for Xinjiang import restrictions and targeted sanctions in response to the abuses. twitter.com/GarnettGenuis/…
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#IPAC 🇪🇺 members @AnnaFotyga_PE MEP and @MiriamMLex MEP lead calls for sponsors to drop support for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics on human rights concerns.
The signatories call on sponsors to "prevent the Chinse Communist Party from exploiting these games for their own gain." twitter.com/AnnaFotyga_PE/…
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#IPAC 🇳🇿 co-chair Louisa Wall MP calls for New Zealand to enact modern slavery legislation to prevent the import of goods tainted by #Uyghur forced labour.
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The Dutch Parliament declares the Chinese government's treatment of Uyghurs as a Genocide, in a resolution backed by #IPAC 🇳🇱 co-chairs @Martijncda MP and @HenkKrol MP.
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#IPAC 🇫🇷 members @AndreGattolin, @OlivierCadic and @VALLINIAndre met with Taiwan Ambassador to France François Wu.
The Senators voiced their support for Taiwan's participation in the WHO, INTERPOL and other multilateral organisations. twitter.com/OlivierCadic/s…
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#BREAKING Ireland joins the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, led by co-chairs Sen. @barrymward and Sen. @malcolmbyrne.
#IPAC now works across 20 legislatures on 5 continents.
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"A common threat requires a united international response. We cannot let our political differences split our response to China’s assertive authoritarianism."
🇮🇪 Senators @barrymward
@malcolmbyrne write on the launch of #IPAC in Ireland's Oireachtas.
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“If we only react when Xi Jinping has completely shackled the formerly free city of Hong Kong it will be too late. That day is getting closer with every wave of repression."
#IPAC 🇩🇪 member @GydeJ MdB on the charging of 47 Hong Kong pro-democracy politicians and activists. twitter.com/GydeJ/status/1…
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BREAKING: #IPAC statement on new evidence of coercive labour transfer schemes in the Xinjiang region.
We call for:
👉Legal investigations into crimes against humanity and genocide from the UN and individual states
👉 Moving supply chains away from Uyghur forced labour abuses
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#IPAC advisor @MahmutRahima echoes IPAC calls for legal investigations into alleged genocide and crimes against humanity after reports document state-run schemes to forcibly uproot and assimilate Uyghurs and other minority groups in the Xinjiang region.
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#IPAC 🇪🇺 member @EnginEroglu_FW MEP criticises the EU's Hong Kong Office @EUinHKandMO for providing a platform to pro-Beijing Hong Kong lawmaker Regina Ip, supporter of the Chinese government's crackdowns in Hong Kong and Xinjiang. twitter.com/EnginEroglu_FW…
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The Co-Chairs were delighted to host Joseph Wu, the Foreign Minister of Taiwan, today for a briefing followed by Q&A. IPAC looks forward to deepening its friendship and partnership with Taiwan which is coming under increasing pressure from Beijing. #StandTogether #IPAC
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Minister Wu participated in a briefing/Q&A for the @ipacglobal co-chairs. He urged more cooperation between like-minded countries in defending freedom, democracy, human rights & rules-based order. We appreciate #IPAC's concern over the #Taiwan🇹🇼 #FreedomPineapple ban by #China.
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Polish courts block the extradition of Swedish citizen Li Zhihui to China, after two years in detention.
Li's extended detention underscores the importance of #IPAC calls for democratic countries to suspend extradition treaties with Hong Kong and China.
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