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UN head hopes China will ‘take on board’ Xinjiang recommendations

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s spokesman says he was ‘concerned’ by what he read in the damning report.

Al Jazeera

The Guardian view on the UN and Xinjiang: no one can say they don’t know

Editorial: The long-delayed report from the office of the human rights commissioner puts an official stamp on the evidence of shameful abuses against Uyghurs

The Guardian - UK

Mixed messages on Xinjiang report from NZ politicians

The Government has called on Beijing to remedy human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims, while National says we shouldn't wave a "banner of purity".

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Beijing furious over damning UN rights report on Uyghurs in Xinjiang

China on Thursday accused the United Nations of becoming a "thug and accomplice of the US and the West" after the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a highly anticipated report warning that crimes against humanity may have taken place in the Xinjiang region.

Radio France Internationale

The UN’s report on the Uyghurs nearly didn’t see the light of day, thanks to China

Michelle Bachelet’s report on human rights abuses in Xinjiang is sobering – as are Beijing’s attempts to stop it being published, says James McMurray of the University of Sussex

The Guardian - UK

For exiled Uyghurs, UN report is long-awaited vindication

The U.N.’s long-delayed report on mass detentions and other rights abuses against Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in China's far-western Xinjiang region has been welcomed by survivors as an acknowledgement of abuses they say they faced at the hands of the Chinese state

The Independent UK

EU, responding to UN report, condemns rights violations in China

The European Commission, responding to a U.N. report that China may have committed crimes against humanity in its Xinjiang region, said on Thursday that it strongly condemns human rights violations in the country.

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Uighurs demand accountability after UN report on China abuses

Uighurs say UN report confirms China’s atrocities in Xinjiang and the world has ‘no more excuses’ for failing to act.

Al Jazeera

China rejects UN report on Xinjiang and insists its treatment of Uyghurs is ‘best human rights practice’

The UN found China may have committed ‘crimes against humanity’ in Xinjiang

The Independent UK

China may have committed ‘crimes against humanity’ in Xinjiang, says UN

The 48-page report says ‘serious human rights violations’ have been committed against Uighurs

Evening Standard

China's treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang may be crimes against humanity, says UN

China may have committed crimes against humanity in their treatment of Uyghurs in its Xinjiang region, the UN human rights chief said, with a long awaited report published

Daily Mirror

Potential ‘crimes against humanity’ in China’s Xinjiang, UN says

Long-delayed report from UN rights office says abuses against mostly Muslim Uighurs stem from ‘anti-terrorism laws’.

Al Jazeera

The United Nations says crimes against humanity may have happened in China's Xinjiang

The United Nations human rights chief has released a long-delayed report, concluding that "serious" human rights violations have been committed against Uyghurs and other minorities in the region.

WEKU

United Nations report finds discriminatory detention in Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity

The long-awaited report from the UN's human rights office calls for an urgent international response over allegations of torture and other rights violations in Beijing's campaign to root out terrorism.

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Axios

UN report finds "serious human rights violations" in Xinjiang

The Chinese government's actions "may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity," the report notes.

The Guardian - US

China’s treatment of Uyghurs may be crime against humanity, says UN human rights chief

Michelle Bachelet issues report minutes before her term ends, detailing ‘credible’ reports of torture, forced sterilization and internment

France 24

China’s treatment of Uyghurs may be crime against humanity, says UN report

The UN accused China of serious human rights violations that may amount to “crimes against humanity” in a long-delayed report examining a crackdown on Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups. Beijing on Thursday denounced the assessment as a fabrication cooked up by Western nations.

Reuters

U.N. says China may have committed crimes against humanity in Xinjiang

China's "arbitrary and discriminatory detention" of Uyghurs and other Muslims in its Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity, the outgoing U.N. human rights chief said in a long-awaited report on Wednesday.

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Reuters

U.N. rights chief's tenure ends in disappointment for some China activists

Michelle Bachelet, once a political detainee under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and a doctor for tortured children, pledged to be the champion of victims when she became U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2018.

Bangkok Post

Five years into Rohingya crisis, what's the plan?

Myanmar's violent ethnic cleansing programme, which forced roughly a million Rohingya Muslims into Bangladeshi refugee camps, marked its fifth anniversary yesterday.

Al Jazeera

UN rights chief under ‘tremendous pressure’ over Xinjiang report

Michelle Bachelet says she has faced pressure over a report on the rights situation in China’s Xinjiang region.

Reuters

U.N.'s Bachelet condemns Brazil rights abuses, president's rally against judiciary

The United Nation's Human Rights High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet on Thursday condemned Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's upcoming rally against judicial institutions, and said the country's human rights situation is "very difficult".

Al Jazeera

Rohingya call for safe return home, 5 years after Myanmar exodus

Rohingya refugees say they have no future in Bangladesh camps, but situation in Myanmar prevents their return.

The Independent UK

UN rights chief hints report on Xinjiang may miss deadline

The outgoing U.N. human rights chief has suggested her office won’t make good on her promise to release its long-awaited report on China’s Xinjiang region by the end of her term next week

Reuters

U.N. rights chief says many applicants seeking to replace her

The United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Thursday she did not know who her successor would be, adding that many candidates had applied to replace her.

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