UN experts challenge China’s “Ethnic Unity and Progress Law,” citing numerous rights violations

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The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) welcomes the statement released this week by eight United Nations special mandate holders challenging China’s enactment of its “Ethnic Unity and Progress Law” as the latest tool for the Chinese Community Party to further its “Sinicization” goal of forced cultural and linguistic assimilation of Tibetans and members of other communities.

“We would like to draw attention to risks that the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress could entrench a uniform approach to ethnic relations across all regions of China, thereby potentially amplifying restrictions on minority rights,” the Special Rapporteurs said. The Law, which goes into effect on July 1, “…could transform temporary or experimental regional measures into binding nationwide obligations, which could have serious implications for the linguistic, cultural, and reli...

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