{"id":38337,"date":"2021-01-19T19:35:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T19:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jww.org\/?p=38337"},"modified":"2021-06-24T23:05:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T23:05:13","slug":"state-department-china-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/state-department-china-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. State Department takes significant step by recognizing Uyghur genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"38337\" class=\"elementor elementor-38337\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-482e835e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"482e835e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-311fadcc\" data-id=\"311fadcc\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-44fb82e6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"44fb82e6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Jewish World Watch applauds the U.S. State Department\u2019s crucial declaration that the Chinese government is committing genocide and crimes against humanity against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jww.org\/site\/uyghurs-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uyghur people<\/a> and other minority groups in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China.<\/p><p>\u201cToday is a momentous day for the Uyghur people,\u201d said Jewish World Watch Executive Director Serena Oberstein. \u201cWe will continue to advocate to ensure that this critical determination is followed by impactful steps to end these human rights abuses. Jewish World Watch\u2019s supporters have fought on behalf of the Uyghur people to contribute to this important declaration, and we urge Secretary Designate Antony Blinken to go even further and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jww.org\/site\/advocacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">include the persecution of the Rohingya people<\/a> who have also been suffering at the hands of their government.\u201d<\/p><hr \/><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Take action: Urge your Senators to support the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act<\/strong><\/span><\/p><hr \/><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than one million Uyghurs have been forced to live in internment camps throughout the Xinjiang region since 2017. Today\u2019s announcement is a significant step toward justice for the Uyghur people, but there is much more work to do. The Biden administration and Congress must quickly impose stronger sanctions against the individuals and entities complicit in these horrendous acts of genocide and re-introduce and pass into law the Uyghur Forced Prevention Act, which got stuck on the Senate floor in 2020.<\/span><\/p><p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have determined that the People\u2019s Republic of China is committing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, China, targeting Uyghur Muslims and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups.<\/p>&mdash; Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecPompeo\/status\/1351580135464558593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFamilies have been torn apart, including my own, hundreds of thousands have been forced into labor, and many women have been sterilized to destroy Uyghur identity. This determination will hopefully lead to further action by the U.S. government and international community to deter further genocidal acts against my people,\u201d said Nurnisa Kurban, Board member of Uyghur Los Angeles.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jewish World Watch will continue to work with local elected officials, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jww.org\/site\/advocacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our human rights organization partners<\/a>, the diaspora community, and the administration of President-elect Joe Biden \u2013 who called the policies by Beijing \u201cgenocide\u201d last year.<\/span><\/p><p><em><strong>January 19, 2021, 11:30 a.m. PST For Immediate Release: Serena Oberstein (818) 674-2836; Jeff Hensiek (818) 501-1836<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jewish World Watch applauds the U.S. State Department\u2019s crucial declaration that the Chinese government is committing genocide and crimes against humanity against the Uyghur people and other minority groups in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China. \u201cToday is a momentous day for the Uyghur people,\u201d said Jewish World Watch Executive Director Serena Oberstein. \u201cWe will&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":38555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,127,188,150,163],"tags":[155,156,157,158,159,143,160,161,162,164,153],"class_list":["post-38337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-new","category-news-features","category-press-release","category-spotlight-article","tag-china","tag-chinese-government","tag-diaspora","tag-donald-trump","tag-forced-labor","tag-jewish","tag-jewish-world-watch","tag-joe-biden","tag-mike-pompeo","tag-uighurs","tag-uyghurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40232,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38337\/revisions\/40232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}