On International Human Rights Day, the European Union (EU) issued a strong statement expressing deep concerns over ongoing human rights violations in China, particularly about civil, cultural, economic, social and political rights.

The EU urged China to uphold the fundamental rights of all individual, including ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities.

The EU highlighted serious human rights violations in Xinjiang, where reports of mass detentions, widespread surveillience, forced labour, and systemic abuses, such as torture, forced abortion, and sterilization, continue to emerge.

The EU also expressed concern over restriction on religious freedoms, the use of birth control policies, and sexual and gender-based violence. These abuses, they said, contribute to cultural erasure, particularly for minorites in the region. Click here to read more.

Source: Tibet.net