MPs will vote Wednesday on a motion by Liberal backbencher Sameer Zuberi that calls on Canada to accept 10,000 Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities who are now living in third countries
Parliament is poised to vote on making room for Uyghurs in Canada’s refugee intake, while a new report describes a dire humanitarian crisis unfolding for the minority fleeing repression in China.that calls on Canada to accept 10,000 Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities who are now living in third countries. MPs who seconded the motion include former foreign minister Marc Garneau.is committing genocide against the Uyghurs and other minorities. The U.S.
A new Uyghur Human Rights Project report titled, On The Fringe of Society: Humanitarian Needs of the At-Risk Uyghur Diaspora, describes what it calls a developing humanitarian crisis among those in self-imposed exile in states such as Turkey, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. All these countries are reliant on Chinese foreign investment.
High rates of unemployment plague these refugees, who often lack identification documents because they left China without passports or ID cards and now live as stateless, displaced persons, the report says. Without documents, they are often cut off from access to health care. “Uyghur people in third countries are a threat of deportation to China where they face the threat of concentration camps, forced sterilization, separation of children from families and forced labour,” Mr. Zuberi said.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
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