Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm trying to gather my thoughts here. I wanted to jump in at several points, but I didn't really get the chance. On multilateral action, my organization has been watching and has been happy to see a little bit of movement, a little bit of action in that regard. On June 26, mor

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That is a big, thorny, and of course very important question. For me and for my organization, it fundamentally comes back to this issue: When are we, collectively, globally, going to actually act on the values that we say we hold? When are we going to prioritize human rights, n

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Right, and if you have a voice but you never actually say anything, or you have a voice but you only nod your head in agreement with what's happening, then what good is that voice?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  If I could jump in and address that as well, I absolutely agree. I think it was remarkable that the leak came from within the Communist Party itself. I also think it bears saying very clearly that so much of what we know about what is happening we know from government documents.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Agreed, yes.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I thank you for that question. Over the last few years, I have watched from afar as a number of musicians and other performing artists have been disappeared into various forms of extrajudicial and extra-legal detention. Some have gone to camps; some have gone to prison. One rece

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think Ms. Lehr put it very pertinently.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  My organization, the Uyghur Human Rights Project, has documented the actual physical destruction of a number of mosques and other holy sites over the last few years since this most recent campaign of atrocities began. The state has removed stars and crescents from the tops of mo

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I will just jump in to address this point about technology and the high-tech tools. I'll just say a number of these Chinese companies, as Ms. Lehr just said, are really involved in the surveillance that packages what is happening together. They have deep and close ties to unive

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, we do know of a long history of international corporations. I'm not totally certain about Canadian corporations in particular, but international corporations. One example is coal and other parts of the energy sector, and so forth. Most of the forced labour we're seeing in t

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Absolutely, those minerals and other resources are a contributing factor.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Crimes against humanity and genocide are two distinct legal concepts. I will qualify the statements I'm about to make by reminding you that I am not a legal expert by any means, but my understanding is that crimes against humanity focuses on the circumstances that might lead, for

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It would be a very interesting and worthwhile structural comparison to make between those two cases. To be very frank, given my area of expertise, I wouldn't feel fully comfortable ruminating orally on that today, but I will say that I think these are both absolutely atrocious, h

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you. Greetings to the members of the subcommittee. I'm very honoured to be testifying today. I'm sitting before you as an advocate for Uighur human rights, and as a scholar whose research has focused on Uighur cultural expression for more than a decade. Just this month t