Canada’s Parliament will have an opportunity this week to change our government’s seeming indifference to the inhumane suffering of Uyghurs in China and beyond. Will MPs answer the call?

The Uyghur population of China are victims of genocide. Millions of Uyghurs are locked up in camps; torture, including sexual violence, is pervasive.

A March 2021 joint report by the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights concluded there is clear evidence that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is inflicting genocide on the Uyghur people. In December 2021, an independent public expert tribunal also concluded that, beyond any reasonable doubt, the PRC is committing genocide.