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10 Things You Can Do For Uyghurs Today
United States
- Call The White House and State Department and urge them to not backtrack on the Uyghur Genocide determination.
- Sign up for Uyghur Advocacy Days
- Call your Senators and Congressperson to pass Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act
- Call on companies to stop using Uyghur forced labor – toolkit
- Inform and engage your local masjid or faith center – share genocide one pager
- Organize presentations and fundraisers
- Use social media to amplify stories
- Boycott products that are made with Uyghur slave-labour
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- Encourage and promote fairer trade and commerce with Muslims and others rather than China
- Build alliances with all people of conscience to demand a cessation of China’s oppression of all faith groups, be it Muslim Uyghurs, Hui Muslims, Christians, or Tibetans
- Get your universities-endowments to divest from China. Raise awareness about Chinese espionage and hired guns in academia. Demand academic and financial support for Uyghur scholars and students. Request more academic attention and funds for Central Asian, Uyghur, Turkistani studies.
Arab World
- Start a boycott campaign. Reach to influencers for support.
- Call on companies to stop using Uyghur forced labor
- Inform and engage your local masjid or faith center
- Organize presentations at your universities – Save Uyghur Campaign can help provide speakers
- Boycott Chinese made products– do not be complicit in slave-labour
- Encourage and promote fairer trade and commerce with Muslims and others rather than China
- Build alliances with all people of conscience to demand a cessation of China’s oppression of all faith groups, be it Muslim Uyghur, Hui, Christian or Tibetan Buddhist
- Inquire about Uyghur diaspora members in your area. Organize to help out orphans, widows, and students
- Pressure governments to provide legal protection to Uyghur refugees-exiles by either citizenship or refugee-asylee status. Stop the “extradition-repatriation” of Uyghurs to China!
- Get your universities-endowments to divest from China. Raise awareness about Chinese espionage and hired guns in academia. Demand academic and financial support for Uyghur scholars and students. Request more academic attention and funds for Central Asian, Uyghur, Turkistani studies.