Social media has become a vibrant space for engagement, especially among the younger generation. In response, UTJD has taken proactive steps to increase our presence […]
The Uyghur Transitional Justice Database Participates in the Third International Uyghur Forum in Berlin
The Uyghur Transitional Justice Database (UTJD) participated in the third International Uyghur Forum, held in…
Confirmatory and Additional Accounts of Oppression and the Intents behind the Relaxation of Entry into East Turkistan
Hitting a Trough of the Genocidal Wave? Following a decade of intense systematic persecution against…
UTJD Educational Application Has Officially Launched at Future-Proof Conference
The Uyghur Transitional Justice Database (UTJD) is proud to announce the soft launch of the beta…
Strengthening Due Diligence Against Forced Labour in Global Supply Chains
Recent developments in Canada have further strengthened regulations aimed at preventing forced labour in global…
Forced labor harms people — our concern can help stop it
Recently, Norwegian TV2 published an article on Temu, raising serious concerns about the company’s links…
Untold Uyghur Stories – Coming to Readers in English
The Uyghur Transitional Justice Database (UTJD) is pleased to announce that the English eBook edition of Untold Uyghur Stories: Echoes of Resistance and Resilience Amid a Relentless Flow of Oppression and Injustice is now open for pre-order. First published in the Uyghur language in January 2026, the book brings together the voices of multiple generations who experienced decades of persecution, displacement, political repression, and injustice in East Turkistan. The testimonies span a broad period of modern Uyghur history, beginning with the land reform campaigns of the early 1950s and the Cultural Revolution, and continuing through waves of migration to neighboring Central Asian countries, the Ghulja Massacre, the July 5, 2009 Ürümchi Massacre, and the mass internment campaign that began around 2014. Collected from ordinary…
Endorsement by Sophie Richardson
A mother blocked from attending her daughter’s wedding, cemeteries desecrated,…
Untold Uyghur Stories – Coming to Readers in English
The Uyghur Transitional Justice Database (UTJD) is pleased to announce…
Strengthening Due Diligence Against Forced Labour in Global Supply Chains
Recent developments in Canada have further strengthened regulations aimed at…
The Uyghur Transitional Justice Database Participates in the Third International Uyghur Forum in Berlin
The Uyghur Transitional Justice Database (UTJD) participated in the third…
UTJD Educational Application Has Officially Launched at Future-Proof Conference
The Uyghur Transitional Justice Database (UTJD) is proud to announce…
Reflecting on UTJD’s Highlights in 2024
UTJD’s Commitment to Technology and Research in 2024 resulted in…
Abdurahman Tohti
A testimony from our “100 Camp Testimonies” Book I am from Beshtugmen…
Voices for Freedom
The Uyghur Transitional Justice Database (UTJD) recently joined the event…
Abdurahman Memet
A testimony from our “100 Camp Testimonies” Book I am originally from…
Panel Discussion Highlights: Remolding the Uyghurs to Fit the Han-Ethnocentric Mold
On March 4, the University of Oslo Library hosted a…
Foreword by James Millward
- James Willard- professor of history at Georgetown University and…
100 Camp Testimonies Book is published
100 Camp Testimonies: Arbitrary Incarceration, Forced Labor, Forced Abortion/Sterilization, and…
How Can Human Rights Organizations Contribute to Ethical Trade and Due Diligence?
An example that offers valuable insight into this question is…
The Marginalisation of the Uyghur Language: No Longer the Medium of Instruction
Following years of gradual effort made by the Chinese regime…
UTJD Brings VR Experience Highlighting Uyghur Plight to Virginia
The UTJD team was recently invited to Virginia to share…
Habeba Omar
A testimony from our “100 Camp Testimonies” Book I am originally from the city of Korla, East Turkistan, and I would like to testify for my relatives.…
Gülnar Muhammetimin
A testimony from our “100 Camp Testimonies” Book I am a Swiss citizen, and I would like to testify for my family members and relatives. The Swiss German-language newspaper…
Strengthening Due Diligence Against Forced Labour in Global Supply Chains
Recent developments in Canada have further strengthened regulations aimed at preventing forced labour in global supply chains. Combined with the European Union's new Forced Labour…
Engaging Youth Voices: UTJD Brings Together Norwegian Youth Parties for Dialogue on Forced Labor
The Uyghur Transitional Justice Database (UTJD) convened a panel discussion on forced labor, bringing together representatives from Norwegian youth political parties to examine how Norway…
Strengthening Due Diligence Against Forced Labour in Global Supply Chains
Recent developments in Canada have further strengthened regulations aimed at preventing forced labour in global supply chains. Combined with the European Union's new Forced Labour…
Leveraging Technology to Expose Human Rights Violations in East Turkistan
One of the key focuses of our work has been exploring how new technologies can be harnessed to expose the atrocities and human rights violations…
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THE PATHOLOGIZATION OF UYGHUR RELIGIOSITY
It is evident in official documents, e.g. the above mentioned surveillance workers’ guideline, that the regime’s mass internment drive has pathologized Uyghur religiosity. According to […]
Join an Inspiring Workshop with the Uyghur Transitional Justice Database in Oslo!
Are you a Uyghur between the ages of 16 and 26 living in Norway? Are you interested in technology, research, and activism? Then this workshop […]
THE CHINESE REGIME’S GENOCIDAL POLICY: FORCED CONTRACEPTION, STERILIZATION & ABORTION
The Chinese regime is committing yet another crime against humanity that is the systematic Uyghur birth suppression, in addition to its mass internment drive in […]
THE CAMP SYSTEM: A MEANS OF INFLICTING STATE TERROR
What has been transpiring in East Turkistan in the last few years, already engendered copious international opprobrium, can be described as “a composite version of […]
Coercive Family Separation
With 1 to 3 million people incarcerated in some form of mass internment, many Uyghur children have been deprived of one or both parents. Countless […]
Uyghur Forced Labor
Forced labor, as it was slowly being rolled out since the summer of 2018, became the next chapter of the Chinese regime’s efforts to subjugate […]
15 years since the Urumchi massacre
15 years ago on July 5, 2009 Uyghurs defiantly, yet peacefully took to the streets in the city of Ürümchi, the administrative capital of East Turkistan, […]
Readership expansion and multilingualism: Initiating the translation process of reports and books into Russian
UTJD is pleased to announce the successful launch of the translation process of our report “The persecution of Uyghurs in East Turkistan” into Russian. This […]
Fellowship on Digital Transnational Repression Research Project
The Uyghur Transitional Justice Database (UTJD) in cooperation with the Open Tech Fund hosts fellowship on a research project to investigate China’s digital transnational repression […]