Some Travel Companies Still Offer Trips to Xinjiang Despite Rights Abuses, Report Finds

Some Travel Companies Still Offer Trips to Xinjiang Despite Rights Abuses, Report Finds

FILE - Tourists pose for photos with a camel outside the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, as seen during a government organized trip f ...

Travel firms urged to halt trips to Uyghur region over China rights abuses

Travel firms urged to halt trips to Uyghur region over China rights abuses

A Uyghur man in July sits on a park bench with political propaganda in the background in Kashgar city in northwestern China’s Xinjiang (Uyghur Region) region. Report saays optics o ...

How China woos the Muslim world?

How China woos the Muslim world?

Money talks louder than Uyghur Muslims can scream ARTILLERY ROW By Georgia L. Gilholy, 2 September, 2023 This week an Organization of Islamic Cooperation delegation visited China. ...

UN says pushing for action on alleged abuses in Uyghur Region

UN says pushing for action on alleged abuses in Uyghur Region

The United Nations report detailed a string of violations against Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.  1 EYL 2023 ÖÖ 10:39 SGT GENEVA – The United Nations insisted on ...

Rights groups blast UN for inaction on China’s repression in Uyghur Region

Rights groups blast UN for inaction on China’s repression in Uyghur Region

China’s clout at the UN makes it hard to press Beijing, analysts say a year after the damning report was released. By Jewlan for RFA Uyghur, 2023.09.01 Women hold pictures of victi ...

Navigating the Uyghur Dilemma: Türkiye’s Balancing Act with China

Navigating the Uyghur Dilemma: Türkiye’s Balancing Act with China

By Professor Nukhet A. Sandal The web of geopolitics is often intricate, where the lives and fates of millions intersect with economic interests and political maneuvering. Few curr ...

the International Conference & Workshop on Preservation of Uyghur Language and Culture in the Diaspora was successfully held in Ankara

the International Conference & Workshop on Preservation of Uyghur Language and Culture in the Diaspora was successfully held in Ankara

From July 8 to 10, 2023, an international seminar titled "Protection of Uyghur Language and Culture in the Diaspora: Amidst the Uyghur Genocide" was successfully held in Ankara, or ...

Photo Exhibition held at Harvard University revealed the beauty of our homeland

Photo Exhibition held at Harvard University revealed the beauty of our homeland

Uyghur Academy and Harvard University Center for Asian Studies organized a valuable event for Uyghurs between 14-15-16 April 2023. In this event, photographs of the famous photogra ...

A conference on “Uyghurs and the preservation of Uyghur culture” was held at Harvard University

A conference on “Uyghurs and the preservation of Uyghur culture” was held at Harvard University

Right after the "Motherland" photography exhibition held at Harvard University on April 14, a conference on "Uyghurs and the preservation of Uyghur culture" was held on April 15. T ...

Conference on the preservation of Uyghur culture held at George Washington University

Conference on the preservation of Uyghur culture held at George Washington University

A conference on the preservation of Uyghur culture was held on Friday, December 9, 2022, at the George Washington University Faculty of International Relations in Washington, the c ...

China’s Persecution of the Uyghurs: Australian Action, Chinese Pressure

China’s Persecution of the Uyghurs: Australian Action, Chinese Pressure

By Dr Melanie O'Brien The plight of the Uyghur population in China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region (XUAR) has become well known in recent years. While Australia has spoken out against ...

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The Uyghur Novel Published by Columbia University Press That Everyone Is Talking About

Perhat Tursun’s “The Backstreets” has been wowing critics with its literary merit and its account of the hardships faced by Uyghurs in China. By Eve Glasberg, October 27, 2022 Perhat Tursun, author of "The Backstreets, is a leading Uyghur writer, poet, and social critic. He is seen here before he was detained by the Chinese authorities in 2018, and reportedly given a 16-year prison sentence. Serendipity has ...

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Google Translate supports new languages for the first time in four years, including Uyghur

By Nick Statt@nickstatt  Feb 26, 2020, 12:30pm EST   Google Translate is adding support for five new languages today, bringing its total to 108 languages. The move marks the first addition of new languages to Google’s artificial intelligence-powered translation product in four years, the company says. Among the new languages added are Kinyarwanda, Odia, Tatar, Turkmen, and Uyghur, and Google says the c ...

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Pilgrims in Old Uyghur Inscriptions: A Glimpse behind Their Records

  Introduction   The remains of Old Uyghur Buddhist scriptures of varying content, as well as records and documents of Buddhist communities and monasteries which are preserved in numerous Central Asian collections worldwide, clearly demonstrate the widespread and fairly long-lasting Buddhist orientation of the Uyghurs and their affiliation to different Buddhist schools or varieties of Buddhism.1 I ...

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ئالدىدا – Before

نىمشېھىت  Nimshehit Translated by Aziz Isa Elkun ۋەسلىدىن ئۆزگە كېرەكمەس ماڭا جانان ئالدىدا  ئارزۇيۇم سەن ئېرۇرسەن تەن بىلەن جان ئالدىدا  بىرگۈلى رەنا ئېرۇرسەن باغۇ بوستان ئالدىدا  تا زىيارەت قىلـمىسام مەن سېنى ئىمكان ئالدىدا  يۈزلۈرۈم شەرمەندە بولسۇن تاڭلا سۇبھان ئالدىدا I need nothing except only the love of my beloved You are the greatest hope of my soul and body You are the finest rose in a land of gard ...

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Uyghur migration from China to Soviet Central Asia in the 1950s and 1960s

  INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON By: Gulnisa Nazarova Tuesday, October 23, 2018 Gulnisa Nazarova is John D. Soper Senior Lecturer of Uyghur Language in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University. Her ongoing research explores the experiences of some of the thousands of Uyghurs who emigrated from Xinjiang in the People’s Republic of China to Soviet Central Asia in the 1950s and 196 ...

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