Please join the Roosevelt House Human Rights Program and Human Rights Watch for a conference that will convene experts, scholars, journalists, and activists at the forefront of the human rights crisis in the Xinjiang region of China.

Keynote remarks will be given by Nury Turkel, Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and author of the memoir No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs.

Monday, September 12, 2022
1:00 PM - 5:30 PM ET

Roosevelt House Auditorium
47-49 E 65th Street

Panel 1: What's Happening in East Turkestan (Xinjiang)?

Rushan Abbas, Founder and Director, Campaign for Uyghurs
Jewher Ilham, Human Rights Advocate and Spokesperson, Coalition to End Uyghur Forced Labor
Rizwangul NurMuhammad, Program Manager Associate, Justice for All, and Co-Founder, Empower Communities Charitable Trust
Isaac Stone Fish (Moderator), Founder and CEO, Strategy Risks
Adrian Zenz, Director and Senior Fellow in China Studies, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation

Panel 2: Why is Genocide Committed?

Jessica Batke (Moderator), Senior Editor, ChinaFile
Magnus Fiskesjö, Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University
Ilshat Hassan Kokbore, Vice Chairman, World Uyghur Congress Executive Committee
Zubayra Shamseden, Chinese Outreach Coordinator at the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP)
Teng Biao, Hauser Human Rights Scholar, Hunter College

Panel 3: What Should We Do?

Martin S. Flaherty (Moderator), Leitner Family Professor of Law, Founding Co-Director, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice, Fordham Law School
Akram Keram, Senior Program Officer, National Endowment for Democracy
Elizabeth M. Lynch, Founder and Editor, China Law & Policy
Amelia Pang, Investigative Journalist and Author of Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods
Sophie Richardson, China Director, Human Rights Watch