This Week's Spotlight: Kashgar - Uyghur Human Rights Project
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THE CAUSE
Uyghurs are ethnically and culturally a Turkic people living in the area of Central Asia commonly known as East Turkistan, which the Chinese government controls through what many scholars recognize as a settler-colonial occupation.

Today, the Uyghur homeland has been turned into a high-tech police state with ubiquitous surveillance blanketing cities and villages. Since 2017, the Chinese government has carried out an ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity, arbitrarily detaining an estimated 1.8–3 million Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in concentration camps and hundreds of thousands more in the prison system. Uyghurs have been subject to atrocity crimes that include arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, forced labor, torture, sexual violence, coercive birth prevention campaigns, and the widespread destruction of cultural and religious sites.


THE ORGANIZATION
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) promotes the rights of the Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim peoples in East Turkistan, referred to by the Chinese government as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, through research-based advocacy. UHRP was founded in 2004 as a project of the Uyghur American Association and became an independent nonprofit organization in 2016.

CHARITY PRIZE
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Week 3: Jerusalem - Palestine Children's Relief Fund

Week 4: Lagos - Helping Hands for Africa

Week 5: Kashgar - Uygher Human Rights Project

Week 6: Islamabad - Chinar International for Kashmir

Week 7: Sana'a - United Muslim Relief for Yemen

Week 8: Kabul - Helping Hands for Afghanistan

Week 9: Dhaka - Islamic Relief for Rohingya Refugees