WUC Capacity Building Workshop on Human Rights Advocacy, Online Security & Media Engagement
Press Release – For immediate release
18 February 2020
Contact: World Uyghur Congress www.uyghurcongress.org
+49 89 5432 1999 or [email protected]
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) is organizing a week-long photo exhibition: ‘’Repressed, Detained and Disappeared: Uyghur Human Rights Crisis ’’ inside a tent at the Broken Chair square in Geneva, in front of the United Nations building (1202 Geneva, Switzerland), from February 24 to February 28, 2020. This event will take place during the first week of the 43rd session of the Human Rights Council, where world’s leaders and high-level officials will be present for the occasion.
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5 December 2019
Contact: World Uyghur Congress www.uyghurcongress.org
0049 (0) 89 5432 1999 or [email protected]
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) in cooperation with the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) will hold an international conference, “The Uyghur Crisis: A Laboratory for Rights Abuses” on December 10, 2019, in room ASP-3H1 at the European Parliament. The event will be preceded by a human rights advocacy workshop from December 7-9 with youth participants from around the world.
Joint press release
World Uyghur Congress
International Campaign for Tibet
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation
Belgian Uyghur Association
Tibetan Community of Belgium
Brussels, 24 September 2019 – On October 1st, the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, the World Uyghur Congress, the International Campaign for Tibet, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation, the Belgian Uyghur Association and the Tibetan Community in Belgium are organizing a joint march and demonstration in Brussels to call for an end to China’s complete lack of respect for human rights.
World Uyghur Congress, 28 June 2019
| Country | City | Protest Time | Protest Location | Contact Information |
| Germany
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München | July 5th, From 15:00 – 18:30 | Gather at:
Theresienwiese, München Rally end point: Chinese General Consulate in Munich, Hofmannstr. 57 |
Esqerjan:
+49 17670864325 Turgunjan Alawdun: +49 17610382764 |
| Karlsruhe | July 5th, From 17:00 – 18:00 | Karlsruhe Friedrichsplatz | Enwer Ehmet:
+49 176847090207 |
|
| Finland | Helsinki | July 7th, From 14:00 | Senaatintori, Helsinki | Obulqasim:
+35 8407150072 |
| Norway | Oslo | July 5th, From 13:00 | Tuengen Allé 2B, 0374 Oslo | Bahtiyar Omer:
+47 99850702 |
| England | London | July 5th, From 18:00 – 20:00 | Consular Section Embassy of China.
49-51 Portland Place, London, W1B 1JL. |
Nizamidin Semetov:
+44 7986047994 |
| Sweden | Stockholm | July 6, From 14:30 | Chinese Embassy in Stockholm: Lidovägen, 811525, Stockholm | Adam Galif:
+46 760077051 Abdullah: +46 736208555 |
| Belgium | Brussels | July 5th | Place du Luxembourg, 1050 Brussels | Yashar Yalqun:
+32 492072134 |
| France | Paris | July 7th, From 13:00 | Paris | Alimjan Ömer:
+33 626643855 |
| Netherlands | Amsterdam | July 5th, From 16:00 -19:00 | Dam Square | Abdusalam Niyaz:
+31 618554698 |
| Canada | Toronto | July 5th, From 10:30 – 14:30 | 240 ST George St, M5R 2N5 | Itibar Artis:
+1 (416) 837-3722 |
| Montreal | July 5th, From 10:30 – 14:30 | 2100 Saint-Catherine St W. H3H 1M7 | Nurmemet:
+1 (514) 717-1277 |
|
| Vancouver | July 6, From 10:30 – 14:30 | 3380 Granville St, V6H 3K3 | Turnisa Medsedik:
+1 (604) 600-5078 Nureli Hajim: +1 (604) 339-5051 |
|
| U.S. | New York | July 5th, From 16:00 – 18:00 | Time Square | Roshen Abbas:
+1 (484) 557-2233 |
| Washington | July 5th, From 14:00 – 17:00 | Chinese Embassy in Washington D.C. | Ilshat Hesen Kökböre:
+1 (703) 868-7384 |
|
| San Francisco | July 5th, From 10:00 – 12:00 | 1450 Laguna St San Francisco CA 94115 | +1 (415) 674-2900 | |
| Australia | Adelaide | July 6th, From 11:30 – 13:00 | 10:30am-Assembly at Victoria Square. 11:00am-March towards: Parliament House | Nurmuhammad Majid Siddiq: +61 435 359 449 |
| Sydney | July 5th, From 10:00 – 12:00 | Chinese Consulate:
39 Dunblan St, Camperdown |
Mehmet Obul:
+61 400 502 669 |
|
| Melbourne | July 5th, From 10:00 – 12:00 | Chinese Consulate:
534 Toorak Rd, Toorak Victoria |
Alim Osman:
+61 418 288 827 |
|
| Kazakhstan | Almaty | July 3rd, From 16:00 | Qorghan Hotel in Almaty | Erkin Ehmet:
+7 7016770151 |
| Kyrgyzstan | Bishkek | July 5th | There will be a meeting in Bishkek | Rozimemet Hajim:
+9 96772577785 |
| Turkey | Ankara | July 5th | Ankara | Hayrullah Efendigil:
+90 5357350540 |
| Istanbul | July 5th | Chinese Consulate in Istanbul | Hidayitullah Oghuzhan:
+90 5323856574 |
|
| Japan | Tokyo | July 5th, From 14:00 | Chinese Embassy in Tokyo | Ilham Mahmut:
+81 80-3248-3463 |
| Tokyo | July 6th, Assembly at 10:00 am and March Begins at 11:00am. | Tokyo 花川戸公園 | Ilham Mahmut:
+81 80-3248-3463 |
Press Release – For immediate release
13 May 2019
Contact: World Uyghur Congress www.uyghurcongress.org
0049 (0) 89 5432 1999 or [email protected]
From June 6-7 2019, the World Uyghur Congress in cooperation with the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), Uyghur American Association (UAA) and the Central Asia Program at George Washington University will hold a two-day international conference in Washington DC, Confronting Atrocities in China: The Global Response to the Uyghur Crisis. Proceedings will begin at 10:00 with an opening ceremony on June 6th at Capitol Hill.
The conference comes at a critical time as Uyghurs are face an unprecedented attack on their identity through an extensive network of political indoctrination camps where up to two million have been arbitrarily detained since April 2017.
Read More →Press Release – For immediate release
15 June 2018
Contact: World Uyghur Congress www.uyghurcongress.org
0049 (0) 89 5432 1999 or [email protected]
The World Uyghur Congress commemorates the 30th anniversary of Uyghur student protests in Urumqi on June 15th, 1988. The protests themselves stood as an early reaction to Chinese policies in the 1980s that openly discriminated against the Uyghur students in particular, and one of the first large-scale public responses to discriminatory policies against Uyghurs that many students felt.
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