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Today a Parliamentary committee inquiry led by #IPAC 🇬🇧member @Nus_Ghani examined the use of Uyghur forced labour in UK supply chains.
Boohoo, H&M and TikTok were among companies questioned for suspected links to abuses in Xinjiang.
Re-watch the hearing below 👇 twitter.com/CommonsBEIS/st…
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"Opponents have drawn parallels with the Cultural Revolution in mainland China, a turbulent period in the 1960s and 1970s when millions were punished and purged by authorities – often after they were denounced by family, friends and neighbours."
aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/5…
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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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#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @Nus_Ghani MP seeks to bring Disney before UK Parliamentary committee to answer accusations of complicity in abuses against Uyghur Muslims while filming #Mulan. twitter.com/Nus_Ghani/stat…
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Man 'forced' to inform on fellow Uighurs for China is shot in Turkey.
The incident reveals the scale of Chinese government attempts to monitor and threaten Uyghur refugees internationally.
news.yahoo.com/man-forced-inf…
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“If I speak out, they will torture my family”: voices of Uyghurs in exile. | The Economist
economist.com/1843/2020/10/1… twitter.com/TheEconomist/s…
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Coverage of #IPAC calls for Taiwan's inclusion in the upcoming World Health Assembly.
"This not only threatens the health and wellbeing of Taiwan's citizens, but also creates a dangerous gap in the global network."
focustaiwan.tw/politics/20201…
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @DavidAltonHL submits report to the UK Government linking British companies to forced organ harvesting in China. twitter.com/DavidAltonHL/s…
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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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Coverage of attempts to silence #IPAC advisor @Anne_MarieBrady after exposing links between New Zealand universities and Chinese military institutions.
timeshighereducation.com/news/china-inf…
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Hong Kong police arrest producer of TV documentary about Yuen Long mob attacks | Hong Kong Free Press
A further attack on press freedom in Hong Kong, and adding insult to injury for the victims of the Yuen Long mob attacks.
hongkongfp.com/2020/11/03/bre…
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BREAKING: #IPAC demands 🇹🇼 Taiwan's participation in the upcoming World Health Assembly and other WHO activities.
As the international community unites to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic, it is wrong and dangerous to exclude Taiwan's world leading expertise.
Full statement below:
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Propaganda made in China. Italy at a crossroads | Formiche
@LauraHarth uncovers deep links between Italian news outlets and Chinese Communist Party controlled state media.
formiche.net/2020/11/propag…
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#IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair @bueti:
"China is among the worst and most powerful perpetrators of serious human rights violations and should have no place on the UN Human Rights Council."
eureporter.co/frontpage/2020…
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As Hong Kong enters its 5th month of the National Security Law, we reflect on the month gone:
- Elected lawmakers arrested
- Teenagers arrested for social media posts
- Citizen surveillance 'snitching' hotline launched
And many more acts of repression👇
hongkongfp.com/2020/10/30/exp…
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#IPAC 🇳🇿 co-chairs Louisa Wall MP and Simon O'Connor MP: "not only are we condemning what has happened there, but trying to find some positive avenues for people from Hong Kong who want to leave,"
newshub.co.nz/home/politics/…
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Firms complicit with the gross abuse and invasive surveillance of Uyghurs and other minority groups in Xinjiang should have no place in the European Parliament.
Letter signed by #IPAC 🇪🇺 MEPs @MiriamMLex @bueti @AnnaFotyga_PE @ViolavonCramon to @EP_President on #hikvision. twitter.com/MiriamMLex/sta…
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Watch #IPAC 🇨🇦 member @DavidSweetMP and IPAC advisor @benedictrogers discuss declining religious freedom in China under Xi Jinping 👇
youtube.com/watch?v=OPv-i1…
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China’s “Untenable Operating Environment” for Business in Xinjiang | Human Rights Watch
The Better Cotton Initiative is the latest international group to pull out of Xinjiang amid forced labour concerns.
hrw.org/news/2020/10/2…
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Labour and National MP call on Ardern to create 'lifeline for vulnerable Hongkongers' | 1 News
#IPAC 🇳🇿co-chairs Louisa Wall MP and Simon O'Connor MP have written to New Zealand PM @jacindaardern calling for a ‘lifeboat scheme’ for young Hongkongers.
tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-z…
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FBI arrests five in alleged ‘Operation Fox Hunt’ plot to stalk and pressure citizens to return to China | CNBC
cnbc.com/2020/10/28/fbi…
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @DavidAltonHL among supporters of an amendment proposing traceability requirements for imported human tissue.
The move would help prevent complicity in suspected forced organ harvesting in China, targeting Falun Gong, Uyghurs and others.
davidalton.net/2020/10/29/lor…
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