Washington: The Chinese authorities incentivised and forced inter-ethnic marriages which have been occurring within the Uyghur area since 2014, in accordance with a report by a Washington-based advocacy group. The new analysis by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) is predicated on proof from Chinese state media and coverage paperwork, government-sanctioned profiles and testimonials, and accounts from girls within the Uyghur diaspora. The report, “Forced Marriage of Uyghur Women: State Policies for Interethnic Marriage in East Turkistan,” examines the Party-State`s position in selling, incentivizing, and coercing interethnic marriage between Uyghur girls and Han males in East Turkistan.
The report gives proof to point out that the Chinese Party-State is actively concerned in a marketing campaign of forcefully assimilating Uyghurs into Han Chinese society by means of combined marriages. “This report brings to light another form of gender-based violence that demands action from concerned states, relevant UN agencies, and women`s groups,” stated Omer Kanat, UHRP Executive Director.
“The Chinese government targets women in its ongoing genocide of the Uyghur people. Uyghur women report routine sexual violence in China`s concentration camps and prisons, and evidence of the forced sterilization was integral to the genocide adjudication of the Uyghur Tribunal,” Kanat added.
The report paperwork Party-State insurance policies and coercive practices associated to Uyghur-Han marriages. “Evidence includes state-approved online accounts of interethnic marriages and weddings; state-approved personal online testimonials from individuals in interethnic marriages; government statements and policy directives; and firsthand accounts of coerced and incentivized marriages from Uyghur women in the diaspora,” UHRP stated in its report.
It provides that forced and incentivized marriages within the Uyghur area are types of gender-based crimes that violate worldwide human rights requirements. Government insurance policies incentivizing and coercing intermarriage and different gender based-abuse solely additional the continued genocide and crimes towards humanity being dedicated in East Turkistan.
Multiple governments and the United Nations have acknowledged that the human rights abuses in East Turkistan represent or could represent genocide and/or crimes towards humanity, in accordance with the report.
The Washington-based UHRP urged girls`s rights advocacy campaigns to name for accountability and finish forced and incentivized marriages suffered by Uyghur and different Turkic girls.
It additionally requested the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination towards Women (CEDAW) to completely study proof of gender-based crimes in its 2023 nation overview of China, and calls on the Chinese authorities to implement measures to successfully finish and forestall such state-sponsored forced marriages and sexual violence.Â
