The Responsibility of the People’s Republic of China for Alleged Human Rights Violations against the Uighurs

Abstract

Following the adoption of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) after the World War II, the international community has begun to try to respect and to protect human rights. Among the basic principles in the protection of human rights are the principles of equality and non-discrimination that every human being is considered to be equal without differences. Unfortunately, presently, many human rights violations against minority groups are triggered by differences of ethnicity, religion, race, or language. In 2018, the CERD Committee reported that there were arbitrary arrests of ethnic minority Uighurs in the Xinjiang region ofChina. A number of reports say that the Chinese government had violated several basic rights of the Uighurs. Several international human rights law conventions have regulated remedies when a state commits a human rights violation. This paper is intended to examine the forms of human rights violations committed against the Uighur minority and the legal remedies that can be done to hold the Chinese state accountable for alleged human rights violations committed.