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Japan Nonpartisan Association for Reconsidering Human Rights Diplomacy @JinkenGaikou holds second general meeting, led by #IPAC 🇯🇵 co-chairs Rep. Gen Nakatani and Rep. @ShioriYamao.
Watch below 👇 twitter.com/JinkenGaikou/s…
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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 🇨🇦 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 🇧🇪 and 🇮🇹 members @SamuelCogolati @ElsVanHoofcdenv @G_Dallemagne and @LucioMalan co-sign letter backing Taiwan to participate in the @WHO.
"we should not let any political doctrine stand in the way of a more comprehensive effort to fight the pandemic."
#LetTaiwanHelp twitter.com/_TheFormosaClu…
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German companies may have to withdraw from the Uyghur province under new Supply Chain Act | Süddeutsche Zeitung
#IPAC 🇩🇪 Co-Chair @MargareteBause:
"Every German company must now ask itself whether it wants to maintain business relations with Xinjiang"
sueddeutsche.de/politik/untern…
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Today at 1700 CET the Bundestag Human Rights Committee will hear evidence of Genocide against Uyghurs.
Questions will be led by #IPAC 🇩🇪 members @GydeJ and @MargareteBause, with #IPAC advisers @adrianzenz and Eva Pils giving testimony.
Full details👇
bundestag.de/ausschuesse/a1…
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Today at 1700 CET the Bundestag Human Rights Committee will hear evidence of Genocide against Uyghurs.
Questions will be led by #IPAC 🇩🇪 members @GydeJ and @MargareteBause, with #IPAC advisers @adrianzenz and Eva Pils giving testimony.
Full details👇
bundestag.de/ausschuesse/a1…
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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…
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#IPAC 🇳🇿 Co-Chairs Louisa Wall MP and Simon O'Connor MP lead calls for transparency after targeting of China expert Professor Anne-Marie Bradyn by the University of Canterbury.
stuff.co.nz/national/polit…
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European Parliament to vote on freezing China deal | Politico
The EP is expected to pass a motion pushing to formally freeze the EU-China #CAI investment deal, after Beijing's sanctions on #IPAC members and EU lawmakers for speaking out on Uyghur abuses.
politico.eu/article/europe…
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 co-chair Baroness Helena Kennedy QC gives evidence to the Belgian Parliament on human rights abuses against Uyghurs.
Baroness Kennedy calls on the Belgian Parliament to recognise Uyghurs as victims of a state perpetrated Genocide. twitter.com/SamuelCogolati…
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#IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair @bueti: European Parliament not informed of plans to agree new rules for European NGOs operating in China.
#CAI would allow Beijing to gain "comprehensive control" over EU NGOs, with requirements that Chinese nationals hold key posts.
handelsblatt.com/politik/intern…
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"In Burma, the illegal regime, authors of atrocity crimes ... strut with impunity, aided and abetted by their authoritarian friends in Beijing."
#IPAC member @DavidAltonHL calls on the UK to seek reform to UN Security Council vetoes on mass atrocity crime investigations.
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#BREAKING: Lithuanian Seimas declares the Chinese state's persecution of Uyghurs constitutes Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity.
The motion was led by #IPAC 🇱🇹 co-chair @DSakaliene MP and follows #UyghurGenocide declarations from 🇺🇸 government and 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇳🇱 parliaments. twitter.com/LRSeimas/statu…
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European Parliament votes to freeze controversial EU-China investment deal | Euro News
#IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair @bueti calls for EU Member States to show a "clear signal of solidarity" with members of the European Parliament sanctioned by Beijing.
euronews.com/2021/05/20/eur…
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Lithuanian parliament becomes latest to recognize Uyghur genocide | Axios
#IPAC 🇱🇹 co-chair @DSakaliene MP:
"We support democracy, as we will never forget the cruel lesson of living under occupation by a Communist regime for 50 years."
axios.com/lithuania-parl…
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#IPAC adviser @AkiraIgata speaks to Asahi Shimbun about efforts to establish Japan's human rights diplomacy through Magnitsky-style sanctions and supply chains due diligence.
asahi.com/sp/articles/DA…
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Taiwan criticises WHO 'indifference' after failing to get into meeting | Reuters
#IPAC led global calls for Taiwan's inclusion in the World Health Assembly and @WHO.
#WHA74 #LetTaiwanHelp
reuters.com/world/asia-pac…
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"We cannot allow the long arm of the Chinese state to reach into the heart of our European democracy."
#IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair @bueti backs calls for 10 EU Member States to terminate extradition agreements with China and Hong Kong to protect exiles in Europe.
aninews.in/news/world/eur…
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Concerns around the impact of China's National Intelligence Law on UK telecommunications raised by #IPAC 🇬🇧 member @Nus_Ghani MP.
Chinese firms operating in the UK would be obliged to secretly pass on sensitive data to intelligence services if requested by the Chinese state.
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#BREAKING: Over 20 #IPAC 🇪🇺 members join @EnginEroglu_FW MEP in calling on the EU to offer a lifeboat scheme for Hong Kongers fleeing persecution.
The signatories call on the Council and Commission to open a special visa route for Hong Kongers to work and study in Europe.
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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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Chinese foreign minister tells Germans ‘you know what genocide looks like’ | Sydney Morning Herald
#IPAC 🇪🇺🇩🇪 co-chair @bueti: using the holocaust as a “diplomatic football” is a reckless new low in the Chinese government's wolf-warrior diplomacy.
smh.com.au/world/europe/c…
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BREAKING: #IPAC statement on the passing of Hong Kong's 'patriot' electoral reform laws.
IPAC condemns attempts to turn Hong Kong into a fabricated and hollowed out democracy.
Democracies must take joint punitive economic actions to hold the Chinese government accountable.
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"The Uyghur in Xinjiang are experiencing ... organ harvesting, measures to prevent women giving birth and the forcible transfer of Uyghur children out of their community"
#IPAC 🇳🇿 co-chair Louisa Wall explains why New Zealand MPs are signing up to #IPAC.
au.news.yahoo.com/zealand-braces…