Committees

Xinjiang detention camps

Inquiry

This inquiry will examine the ways in which the UK Government can prevent UK companies from benefitting from forced labour in Xinjiang, support members of the Uyghur diaspora community, and strengthen the UK Government’s, and particularly the FCDO’s, atrocity prevention mechanisms.

 

Read the call for evidence for more details about the inquiry

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Past events

Tuesday 27 April 2021
2:30pm Public
Xinjiang detention camps - Oral evidence 27 April 2021
2:30pm
  • Nigel Adams
  • Rupert Ainley (Interim Director North East Asia and China at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
  • Paul Williams (Director Open Societies and Human Rights at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
Room 8, Palace of Westminster
Tuesday 13 April 2021
1:45pm Private
2:30pm Public
Xinjiang detention camps - Oral evidence 13 April 2021
2:30pm
  • Rushan Abbas (Founder and Executive Director at Campaign for Uyghurs)
  • Rayhan Asat (Attorney, Yale World Fellow, President at American Turkic International Lawyers Association)
  • Peter Irwin (Senior Program Officer for Advocacy and Communications at Uyghur Human Rights Project)
3:30pm
  • Azeem Ibrahim (Research Professor, Strategic Studies Institute at US Army War College, and Director at Center for Global Policy)
  • Charles Parton OBE (Senior Associate Fellow at Royal United Services Institute (RUSI))
Virtual meeting
Tuesday 2 March 2021
1:45pm Private
2:30pm Public
Xinjiang detention camps - Oral evidence 2 March 2021
2:30pm
  • Dr Samantha Hoffman (Senior Analyst at Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI))
  • Dr Radomir Tylecote (Director, Defence and Security for Democracy Unit at Civitas)
3:30pm
  • Chloe Cranston (Business and Human Rights Manager at Anti-slavery International)
  • Sophie Richardson (China Director at Human Rights Watch)
Virtual meeting
Tuesday 9 February 2021
1:45pm Private
2:30pm Public
Xinjiang detention camps - Oral evidence 9 February 2021
2:30pm
  • Peter McAllister (Executive Director at Ethical Trading Initiative)
  • Andrew Opie (Director of Food and Sustainability at British Retail Consortium)
  • Damien Sanfilippo (Director of Standards & Assurance at Better Cotton Initiative)
Virtual meeting

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  • Email: fac@parliament.uk
  • Phone: 020 7219 4050 (general enquiries) | 020 7219 2996 or facmedia@parliament.uk (media enquiries)
  • Address: Foreign Affairs Committee | House of Commons | London | SW1A 0AA