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Thank you @n_roettgen for signing this, and joining #IPAC's call to #reducedependency on China. twitter.com/n_roettgen/sta…
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#LIVE #IPAC 🇬🇧 parliamentarians debate reports of forced labour in Tibet, as revealed by IPAC advisor @adrianzenz.
Watch now: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/1d…
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UK considering ban on NHS procurement of goods made in Xinjiang | The Guardian
#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @Nus_Ghani: "We have a duty to protect the NHS from involvement in the heinous things done to Uyghur people."
theguardian.com/world/2022/mar…
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"What we are seeing today, as China hosts the games for a second time in 14 years, is the utter betrayal and abandonment of the Olympic Charter."
#IPAC 🇨🇦 co-chair @IrwinCotler writes on the Chinese government's human rights record.
#Beijing2022
theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
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Full story: 'If the others go I'll go': Inside China's scheme to transfer Uighurs into work | BBC
bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…
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"Beijing is trying to scare European politicians into silence."
Interview with #IPAC 🇩🇰 Co-Chair @uffeelbaek MP on Chinese government attempts to intimidate parliamentarians and activists abroad.
information.dk/udland/2021/05…
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Ministers ‘looking seriously’ at changing rules that exclude young Hong Kongers from BNO scheme | Independent
Amendment led by @DamianGreen in Commons and @DavidAltonHL in Lords could see extension of BNO visa to Hong Kongers born after 1997.
@hk_watch
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
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Chinese official declares Beijing has targeted Australian goods as economic punishment | ABC
Beijing confirms hefty tariffs and trade barriers on Australian products were acts of political retaliation.
abc.net.au/news/2021-07-0…
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Beijing's trade sanctions on Lithuania are "an attack on the whole EU bloc."
#IPAC 🇱🇹 co-chair @DSakaliene MP on the Chinese government's reaction to the opening of the Vilnius Taiwan Representative Office.
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w1…
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🚨 IPAC member @Nus_Ghani demands @tiktok_uk answers questions in @UKParliament after @BuzzFeed investigation exposes data transfer to China. 👇
spectator.co.uk/article/china-…
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The Australian: PM shoulders arms to China
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NHS accused of exploiting forced labour | Spectator
UK hospitals bought PPE from firm using Xinjiang state sponsored forced labour, as MPs prepare to debate an amendment to the Health and Care Bill that could stop procurement from Uyghur slave labour.
spectator.co.uk/article/nhs-ac…
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🇩🇰 Letter to Moroccan Ambassador to Denmark Ms Raja Ghannam signed by MP @uffeelbaek.
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2⃣Governments to revise their risk advice to businesses currently sourcing from areas affected by these schemes to keep supply chains free from Tibetan forced labor
3⃣Reciprocal access to Tibet in order to conduct an independent international investigation into the situation
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Chinese state media refuses to label Russian invasion of Ukraine as 'war' | China Media Project
Voices critical of Putin, or even those calling for peace, continue to be systematically removed from Chinese social media platforms.
chinamediaproject.org/2022/03/12/whe…
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French city objects to Zara store extension in part over Uyghur probe | Reuters
Global fashion brand Zara denied permission to extend a French store following concerns over alleged links to Uyghur forced labour supply chains.
reuters.com/article/indite…
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"In 2008 the Chinese government politicised the Olympics, we should learn from that."
#IPAC 🇨🇿 @PavelFischer cites Russia's human rights abuses at the Sochi 2014 Olympics and calls for Czechia to back the #Beijing2022 diplomatic boycott.
#NoRightsNoShow
plus.rozhlas.cz/senator-fische…
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Clarification: while the political outreach process has been suspended, the technical process to ratify #CAI continues.
Full explainer here 👇
twitter.com/StuartKLau/sta…
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Switzerland joins #IPAC call on over 10 European governments to stage a diplomatic boycott of the #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics.
#IPAC🇨🇭 legislators @FabianMolinaNR Lisa Mazzone @WalderNicolas @MartinaMunz @FranziskaRyser write to @ignaziocassis and @vbs_ddps.
#NoRightsNoShow
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Meanwhile Lithuanian Co-Chair @DSakaliene reads #IPAC statement on #HongKong to the Lithuanian Parliament also representing fellow Co-Chair @Adomenas. #StandTogether
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