All Reading
This section contains a curated list of useful articles, investigations, books and other reading materials. The list is updated on a weekly basis and suggestions for additions are welcome.
Starting Points:
- Agriculture Supply Chain
- Anti Terrorism Framework
- Assimilation
- Automotive Supply Chain
- Autonomy
- Becoming Family Campaign
- Beijing Olympics
- Belt and Road Initiative
- Biometrics
- Camp Construction
- Censorship
- Chen Quanguo
- China Cables
- Chinese Politics
- Chinese Responses
- Clothing Supply Chain
- Context
- Coronavirus
- Cotton Supply Chain
- Cultural Repression
- Cultural Revolution
- Deaths in custody
- Deportation
- Detention
- Disinformation
- Ethnic Policy
- Ethnic Relations
- Eyewitness Accounts
- Facial Recognition
- Family Separation
- Food Supply Chain
- Forced Labour
- Genocide Discussion
- Government Policy
- Han Migration
- History of China
- IJOP
- Ilham Tohti
- Influential Uyghurs Detained
- International Reactions
- International Relations
- Islam in China
- Karakax List
- Key Players
- Labour Transfers
- Leaked Documents
- Legislative Action
- Linked Organisations
- Ma Xingrui
- Mao Zedong
- Michelle Bachelet Visit
- Movement Restrictions
- Organ Harvesting
- Overview Reports
- Policing
- PVC Supply Chain
- Rahile Dawut
- Reeducation
- Reeducation Camps
- Reeducation Through Labour
- Reform Through Labour
- Religious Policy
- Religious Repression
- Renewables Supply Chain
- Reproductive Restrictions
- Sanctions
- Satellite Imagery
- Securitization
- Sexual Assault
- Sinicization
- Solar Energy Supply Chain
- Stability Maintenance
- Strike Hard Campaign
- Supply Chains
- Surveillance
- Technology Supply Chain
- Thought Reform
- Tibet
- Torture
- United Front Work Department
- Urumqi Fire
- Urumqi Riot
- Uyghur Culture
- Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act
- Uyghur Human Rights Protection Act
- Uyghur Policy Act
- Uyghur Tribunal
- Victim Accounts
- Victim Lists
- Violence in Xinjiang
- War on Terror
- Xi Jinping
- Xinjiang Aid
- Xinjiang Demographics
- Xinjiang History
- Xinjiang Papers
- Xinjiang Police Files
- Xinjiang Victims Database
- XPCC
- ABC News
- Adrian Zenz
- Agence France Presse
- Al Jazeera
- Amnesty International
- ANU Press
- AP News
- Asia Dialogue
- Asia Freedom Institute
- Asian Survey
- ASPI
- Atlantic Council
- Axios
- BBC
- BESA Center
- Bitter Winter
- Bloomberg
- Brill Publishers
- Brookings Institute
- Business Insider
- Buzzfeed News
- C4ADS
- Cambridge University Press
- Canbury Press
- CBC News
- Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting
- Central Asian Survey
- Chicago University Press
- China Change
- China Digital Times
- China File
- China Leadership Monitor
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders
- Chinese Media Project
- Citizen Truth
- CNN
- Coalition to End Uyghur Forced Labour
- Coda Story
- Columbia University Press
- Commonweal
- Congressional Executive Commission on China
- CSIS
- Der Spiegel
- Deutsche Welle
- Dutch Uyghur Human Rights Foundation
- E-International Relations
- East West Center
- Economic and Political Weekly
- Essex Court Chambers
- EU European External Action Service
- Fair Observer
- Fashion United
- Financial Times
- Forbes
- Foreign Affairs
- Foreign Affairs Committee
- Foreign Policy
- Fortune
- Freedom House
- Freedom United
- Getty
- Global Voices
- Government of Canada
- Harper Collins
- Harvard University Press
- Helena Kennedy Centre
- History Today
- Hong Kong Watch
- Hope Not Hate
- House of Commons
- House of Lords
- Human Rights Foundation
- Human Rights In China
- Human Rights Watch
- Hunter University
- i News
- ICIJ
- Informed Comment
- Inner Asia
- Insider
- International Service for Human Rights
- IPVM
- Irish Independent
- Jacobin
- Jamestown Foundation
- Japan Uyghur Association
- Jewish Museum
- Journal of Political Risk
- Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies
- Korea Times
- LA Times
- La Trobe University
- Lawfare
- Living Otherwise
- Loop Media
- Made in China Journal
- Manchester University Press
- Metro
- Middle East Monitor
- Milestone Journal
- Minority Rights Group
- Monacelli Press
- National Geographic
- NBC
- New Lines Magazine
- New Statesman
- New York Times
- New Yorker
- Newlines Institute
- Newsweek
- Nikkei
- NL Times
- NPR
- Open Democracy
- Open Secrets
- Pacific Standard
- Pen Opp
- Persuasion Magazine
- Politico
- Politics Home
- Quartz
- Radio Free Asia
- Radio Free Europe
- RAND Corporation
- Remake
- Reuters
- Routledge
- SBS World News
- Scribe Publications
- Shado Mag
- Shawn Zhang
- SOAS
- Society and Space
- Stanford FSI
- Steptoe
- Strategic Studies Institute
- Supchina
- Sustainable Brands
- Swiss Info
- Tech UK
- The Art Newspaper
- The Asan Forum
- The Asia Pacific Journal
- The Atlantic
- The Breakthrough Institute
- The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst
- The China Quarterly
- The Diplomat
- The Dispatch
- The Economist
- The Globe and Mail
- The Globe Post
- The Guardian
- The Independent
- The Intercept
- The Mail on Sunday
- The Rights Practice
- The Verge
- The Washington Post
- Tibetan Review
- Time
- Top10VPN
- Toronto Star
- Transnational Institute
- United Nations
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Nottingham Rights Lab
- University of Sheffield
- University of South Australia
- University of Washington
- US Customs and Border Protection
- USA Today
- Uyghur Forced Labor Database
- Uyghur Human Rights Project
- Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project
- Uyghur Transitional Justice Database
- Uyghur Tribunal
- Verso Books
- Vice News
- Voice of America
- Voices on Central Asia
- Vox
- War on the Rocks
- Wilson Center
- World Politics Review
- World Uyghur Congress
- Xinjiang Victims Database
- Yahoo News
- Yale University
China restricts travel for Uyghurs with onerous requirements: report
Authorities permit some trips to portray a public image of normalcy in the region.
Uyghur historian sentenced again - this time to life in prison
Uyghur historian Tursunjan Hezim, the founder of a website which archived a vast collection of books and materials on Uyghur history before it was shut down by Beijing, was sentenced to life in prison in 2022.
Thailand says ‘no policy’ to deport 48 detained Uyghurs to China
UN experts had joined rights groups in raising concerns about the fate of the men.
Authorities shut down Uyghur farmers' water wells in southern Xinjiang
But reports of unauthorized wells dug by Han Chinese in the area have largely gone unaddressed.
China expands orphanage-style boarding schools for Uyghur children
Beijing claims to have shut down the camps where their parents were interned.
Uyghur group welcomes key laws passed in US defense bill
Uyghur-American activists have welcomed the 2025 U.S. defense spending bill’s inclusion of key laws aimed at the repression of Uyghurs in China, including the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act.
China’s United Front takes Taiwanese youth on Xinjiang trips
Organizers are accused of ‘whitewashing’ the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights record in the Uyghur homeland.
Illegal wells in Xinjiang spark tension and dry up the land
The discovery of 46 illegal wells dug by Chinese migrants in the far western region of Xinjiang has intensified tension with Uyghur residents and disrupted the ecological balance of the region.
Uyghur intellectual died while in custody of Chinese authorities
Ibrahim Dawut had been an advocate for Uyghur language education, but died two months after his arrest.
China’s farm sector more tainted by forced labor than previously known, report says
Dozens of Western companies, including Kraft Heinz, Nestlé, Del Monte, PepsiCo, McCormick, Unilever and L’Oreal, are identified as having direct or indirect supply-chain links to Xinjiang.
TikTok deletes videos related to Uyghur human rights violations
Uyghurs living abroad say they believe China is behind the deletions.
British foreign secretary under fire for failing to raise Uyghur genocide in China
Opposition MPs and a Uyghur advocacy group blast David Lammy for not using stronger language with his Chinese counterpart.
China lashes out at Western criticism of its treatment of Uyghurs and Tibetans
Australia is ‘plagued by systemic racism’ and should mind its own business, Beijing said in response to a 15-country resolution calling for the release of detained Uyghurs and Tibetans.
Thank You from the Uyghurs, President Erdogan—But More Is Needed
The Turkish leader deserves credit for mentioning the Uyghur issue at the 79th UN General Assembly. But a stronger tone is needed.
Leaked audit of VW’s Xinjiang plant contains flaws: expert
Volkswagen’s audit of its joint venture plant in Xinjiang — where human rights groups accuse it of using Uyghur forced labor — contains flaws that make it unreliable, said an expert who obtained a copy of the audit.
Uyghur scholar’s prison guard gets 7 years for revealing ‘secrets’
The Uyghur prison guard was sentenced to seven years in jail for divulging information about the condition of prominent Uyghur political prisoner Ilham Tohti.
Japanese-Uyghur lawmaker urges Tokyo to take firmer stand on China
“The international community, including Japan, must do its part to ensure that we do not set a precedent where such violations go unaccounted for under our watch,” she said.
Uyghur activists welcome Biden’s call to limit ‘de minimis’ exemption
Critics call the law a ‘loophole’ that allows goods made with slavery to be sold to Americans.
Pakistan-based Uyghur businessmen praise China during Xinjiang visit
Activists say Beijing-funded trip was meant to dispel accusations of genocide in the region.
China is borrowing Nazi’s ‘genocide tourism’ practices in Xinjiang: scholar
Beijing wants visitors to believe the Uyghurs are thriving – and control what they see, a Swedish expert writes.