Show your support online
Share our event
Share our event with your friends and family, encouraging them to attend or learn more about the event. Any and all of the following will help us spread the word!
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Click "going" on our Facebook event and share the link with your friends.
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Share our promotional materials on social media and over email (link downloads zipped file).
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Direct people to our website to register (registration is required).
Sign online petitions
Consider signing one of the following petitions about current human rights abuses in Xinjiang:
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"Free Uyghurs from forced labor in China," on Freedom United (15,000+ signatures as of Apr. 29)
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"Free the Uyghurs!" on Avaaz.org (938,000+ signatures as of Apr. 29)
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"No Rights. No Games." on Change.org (109,000+ signatures as of Apr. 29)
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"Petition for the Immediate Release of Professor Rahile Dawut and other Uyghur scholars," on Change.org (21,000+ signatures as of Apr. 29)
Support Other Organizations
The following organizations have all been involved in Uyghur advocacy in some way shape or form since long before Uyghur Human Rights Week was planned. If you're interested in learning more about Uyghurs, volunteering, or donating, please consider any of the following organizations (presented in alphabetical order).
Campaign for Uyghurs works to promote and advocate for the human rights and democratic freedoms for the Uyghurs and other Turkic people in East Turkistan (referred to in China as “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region”).
Dwight Hall Peace Initiative (Yale University)
The Dwight Hall Peace Initiative's mission is to acknowledge and condemn the contribution of prominent brands to the forced labor of the Uyghur people in factories and internment camps in China. If you want to get involved, you can reach members of the DHPI at peace@dwighthall.org.
Human Rights Watch - China and Tibet
Human Rights Watch investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world. Its China and Tibet team investigates human rights abuses in Xinjiang and other regions of China.
Lawyers for Uyghur Rights is a group aimed at bringing together lawyers working to protect the rights of Uyghur people to discuss the strategies they are using. It will also provide general information about the legal situation in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). It does not assist in individual cases however we might be able to point you in the right direction for assistance.
LivingOtherwise.com provides a space for Xinjiang artists, film-makers, writers, musicians and poets. It is here to tell the stories of migrants who come to city in search of ways of living otherwise. The general aim is to recognize and create dialogue around the ways minority people create a durable existence and, in turn, how these voices from the margins link us together in simultaneously distinctive and connected ways.
UyghurAid aims to financially support Uyghurs and other people of East Turkestan, who are victims of persecution by the Chinese government, and their families. UyghurAid encourages people to testify and be a witness. We document people’s witness accounts, collect evidences and provide it to international human rights organizations and international media.
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) was founded by the Uyghur American Association (UAA) in 2004 with a supporting grant from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). UHRP’s mission is to promote human rights and democracy for the Uyghur people, and to raise awareness of human rights abuses that occur in East Turkistan, referred to by the Chinese authorities since 1955 as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). In 2016, UHRP became an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit, tax-exempt organization.
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) is an international organisation that represents the collective interest of the Uyghur people both in East Turkistan and abroad.
The WUC was established on 16 April 2004 in Munich, Germany, after the East Turkistan National Congress and the World Uyghur Youth Congress merged into one united organisation. The main objective of WUC is to promote the right of the Uyghur people to use peaceful, nonviolent, and democratic means to determine the political future of East Turkistan.