Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  No, the translation is not coming through.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Oh, yes.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Okay, yes. It's all good. Sorry about that.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think we all know that children's best interests are very much with their parents, but when they are taken away and placed in these state orphanage schools, basically they are in the state's care. This is not the kind of government that we could trust to raise these kids with

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes. Regardless of the fate of the pending legislation before the U.S. parliament, we do have actual legislation, called the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, which criminalizes not just the companies but also senior executives who knowingly completely disregard the use of forc

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm happy to take this question. I think we need to understand that Uighur forced labour has two unusual and defining characteristics. One is about the effort by the Chinese government to eliminate Uighur culture as a whole, but unlike the forced labour generated by human traffi

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, I'm happy to respond. I think we do have a very strong case for genocide because it meets both the intent element.... I think that with everything we've seen so far, mass sterilization of women and detaining people of child-bearing age in internment camps and giving them le

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, indeed. Actually, this information just came to light yesterday as a result of the incredibly detailed investigative journalism of the New York Times. Everybody knows there's a very well-documented research piece called “Uyghurs for sale”, which identified and flagged more t

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Absolutely. With the passage of the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act, we now have pending legislation, which is, as you rightfully put it, the Uighur forced labour prevention act. I hope, with the massive use of Uighur forced labour tainting the global supply chain, we're not going

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I appear before you today as an attorney, an advocate, a sister and a member of the Uighur community. The year 2020 marks four years into the Uighur human rights crisis, a crippling genocide, and yet here we are. I hope we will emerge from