Resources
This section contains a list of resources for learning about Xinjiang.
Xinjiang’s Architecture of Repression
This chart maps the key bureaucratic offices involved in designing, coordinating and implementing the Chinese Communist Party’s policies in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in western China.
China Transnational Repression List
This project documents the 440 Uyghurs living abroad across 40 countries known to have been subject to China’s “transnational repression” through detention, deportation, and more from 1997 until March 2021.
Xinjiang Victims Database
Updated on an ongoing basis, The Xinjiang Victims Database attempts to record all currently known individuals detained in Xinjiang internment camps or subject to forced labour.
Xinjiang Sanctions Project
The Xinjiang Sanctions research project presents the most comprehensive analysis of Xinjiang sanctions to date, and offers ideas for strengthening them.
Xinjiang Documentation Project
The Xinjiang Documentation Project aims to provide a reading guide about the recent developments and experts’ explanations of what ethnic Uyghurs and Kazakhs experience on a daily basis.
Xinjiang Data Project
The Xinjiang Data Project focuses on collecting, preserving, and assessing information on the extrajudicial detention of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other ethnic groups in Xinjiang.
Uyghur Human Rights Project Bibliography
This bibliography provides an extensive list of many of the relevant news reports and academic works on China's “re-education” camps in Xinjiang and the campaign of forced assimilation in the region.
Uyghur Forced Labor Database
Jewish World Watch’s Uyghur Forced Labor Database – the most extensive to date – brings to light more than 600 national and international companies and their ties to the Xinjiang region of China.
Talking About Xinjiang
The Talk About Xinjiang guide was created to help facilitate conversations with Chinese friends, family, and colleagues about the ongoing abuses of Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in China's Xinjiang region.
Online work on situation in Xinjiang 2016-2020
This bibliography covers a collection of online links focusing on international media coverage of the ongoing human rights crisis in the region, for readers looking to understand the global perspective on this issue.
Mass Detentions and Repression in Xinjiang: A Bibliography
This bibliography hosts an array of sources that includes bibliographies, international legal materials, websites, institutional reports, official statements, general information, news reports, and scholarly work.
Handbook for the Uyghur Community
This handbook was produced by the Rights Practice to address some of the concerns and needs of Uyghurs living in the UK, aimed at helping the community better understand their rights in the UK as well as relevant Chinese law.
Breaking Down The Xinjiang Crisis
This project is an ongoing effort to establish an evidence-based picture of what is occurring in Xinjiang, aimed at those skeptical of claims made where geopolitical motives to falsify problems in China can feasibly exist.
Automotive Supply Chains and Forced Labor in the Uyghur Region
This information serves as a starting point for understanding supply chain connections to the Uyghur Region, identifying potential exposure to forced labor within automotive supply chains, as described in the full report.