recording of "Fighting Uyghur Forced Labor: Government, Researchers, Industry, and Civil Society"

Laura Murphy's powerful lecture on Uyghur forced labor, at Cornell U on Sep 30, 2024; recording now available on Global Cornell's YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8KV2b6Bk_0

Fighting Uyghur Forced Labor: Government, Researchers, Industry, and Civil Society. 

Laura T. Murphy, Policy Advisor, Department of Homeland Security, US; and Professor of Human Rights, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Laura Murphy discussed the current situation for Uyghurs in forced labor in China, as well as the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, the landmark forced labor legislation that prohibits goods made in the Uyghur Region of China from import into the United States -- including the effects of the law after two years of implementation.

The event was hosted by the East Asia Program at Cornell University, and co-sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies, Contemporary Muslim Societies Program, Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies Program, the Department of Global Labor and Work (ILR), and the Global Labor Institute (ILR), the Department of Government, as well as the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.

genocide lives on in west China

[from google group on Xinjiang killing of culture and people, day by day: October 2024]

...https://thebulletin.org/2024/10/how-modern-slavery-in-china-and-elsewhere-undermines-the-fight-against-existential-threats/

Separately, f y i, I wrote a piece on the recent online chat confessions from Chinese soldiers that took part in massacres of Uyghur civilians. It's in Swedish only: https://kinamedia.se/2024/10/09/soldaters-dodande-av-civila-i-xinjiang-lacker-ut-pa-kinas-sociala-medier/ 

I have not seen many other media take this up. Meanwhile, the New York Times [NYT] just had a big piece on how many Chinese people are now upset about how a Japanese boy was recently murdered outside his school in Guangzhou -- but even the NYT doesn't mention how the Uyghur genocide is proceeding while very few Chinese protest it.

Taking Uyghur property in west China

...article about China's expropriation and dispossession of Uyghur land, wealth, and people, as part of their "broader plan to undermine Uyghur existence, erode their economic base, and reshape the region for Han Chinese settler domination." 

https://bitterwinter.org/from-orchards-to-auctions-the-chinese-robbery-of-uyghur-wealth-part-i/

From Orchards to Auctions: The Chinese Robbery of Uyghur Wealth. Part I. How confiscation of Uyghur wealth by China is pushing Uyghurs to poverty.

Abdulhakim Idris. Bitter Winter, 10/23/2024.