Spotlight:
HRIC Advocacy and Media Work
on Ethnic Minority Rights

HRIC advocacy and media work has sought to call attention to the serious and systemic problems relating to ethnic minority rights in China. The following is a list of HRIC advocacy and media work related to persecution of ethnic minorities, including press statements, reports, and articles. To subscribe to HRIC's press list, please e-mail communications@hrichina.org with "SUBSCRIBE" as the subject heading.

• China: Minority Exclusion, Marginalization and Rising Tensions - By Human Rights in China, commissioned by Minority Rights Group International - This report examines China's autonomy system, and how despite formal guarantees of self-governance and minority protections for ethnic groups, the system functions as a mechanism of exclusion and control. Systemic violations of civil and political rights occur in tandem with increasing exclusion of ethnic minorities from a top-down policy of economic development, especially evident in Mongolian, Tibetan, and Uyghur autonomous regions. (Published February 2007) (Chinese version)
  
  
  • Joint Press Release of HRIC and Minority Rights Group International: China's Development Strategy Fails to Benefit Critical Ethnic Minorities and Masks Repression (April 25, 2007)
    
    
  • Without a Say: Exclusion from Political Participation - This excerpt from a joint report by Human Rights in China and Minority Rights Group International stresses the importance of genuine political participation as a means of ameliorating ethnic tensions. (China Rights Forum, no. 4, 2006)
    
    
  
  
• Devastating Blows: Religious Repression of Uighurs in Xinjiang - A joint report by Human Rights in China and Human Rights Watch - This report details Chinese government methods for controlling and curtailing Uyghur religious expression in the oil-rich Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwest China. It is based on firsthand accounts as well as previously undisclosed government and Chinese Communist Party documents. (Published April 2005)
  
  
  
  
  • Press Release: China: Religious Repression of Uighur Muslims Architecture of Xinjiang Suppression Detailed (April 12, 2005)
    
    
  • The Repressive Framework of Religious Regulation in Xinjiang - This excerpt from a joint report by Human Rights Watch and Human Rights in China outlines the laws that suppress the religious freedoms of Xinjiang's Uyghur minority. (China Rights Forum, no. 2, 2005)
    
    
  • HRIC's 2001 Recommendations to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
    
    
    

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