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The U.N. Human Rights Office has been seeking "meaningful access" to China's Xinjiang region over the past year.

While our deep entanglement with China's economy makes broad sanctions hard to implement, trade can still be a useful "stick" to punish and ideally change behavior—if used wisely.

For the second year in a row, the United States assesses "genocide" and "crimes against humanity" are taking place against Uyghurs in China's Xinjiang region.

China's tit-for-tat measures come 10 days after the United States imposed visa restrictions on Chinese officials said to be responsible for the repression of religious freedom.

China's Foreign Ministry demanded a withdrawal of the Biden Administration's latest round of political sanctions.

On this International Women's Day, we ask that you say the names of women targeted and imprisoned for exercising and advocating for freedom of religion and belief.

It's a relatively small act for the leader of the free world to say the name Gulshan Abbas. It could change the course of my mother's life.

"For us, the genocide doesn't stop in the two to three weeks of the Olympic Games," Zumretay Arkin, an ethnic Uyghur Muslim, told CBS News.

Yan Jiarong of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games interjected to have the final say on questions related to Taiwan and the Uyghurs.

"Every athlete needs to know when they put their flag on, you're standing for freedom or you're standing for human rights abuses," the former U.N. ambassador said.

The skier has denied any deliberate attempt to display the East Turkestan flag at the Olympic Games.

The alleged human rights violations "have no place in civilized society," Mayor Zdeněk Hřib of Prague said during a recent episode of "The Diplomat."

The Chinese leader wants to emerge from the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing as Dictator for Life.

Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter prohibits demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda, and China warned Olympians could be punished.

Wiesel's remarks came on the annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

An estimated one million Uyghurs are in concentration camps, treated as little more than chattel, and enslaved.

"China does not have the right to host the Olympics while committing all the torture, cruelty and genocide against Uyghurs," said one protestor.

Mars said the characters used for M&M's advertising would be updated to reflect a "more dynamic, progressive world."

Rights groups warned U.S. athletes against making comments about China while at the 2022 Olympics, saying they should save comments for when they're back home.

The fallout from a previous incident involving a former Houston Rockets general manager was estimated to be hundreds of millions of dollars.

Chamath Palihapitiya said he cared more about the domestic human rights situation in the U.S. than about "a segment of a class of people in another country."

Alluding to allegations about China's detention of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, the Chinese Foreign Ministry told the U.S. to shut down Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

A year ago, the Twitter account of the Chinese embassy in Washington quoted an article saying "emancipated" Uyghur women were "no longer baby-making machines."

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger sought to defend his company's decision on Monday.

Tesla's Xinjiang dealership has drawn criticism as rights groups continue to raise concerns about the plight of the region's Uyghurs.

"We urge [the U.S.] to discard the obsolete Cold War zero-sum mentality and ideological bias," Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian said.

Firsthand witnesses, a U.K. tribunal and numerous governments have all said that China is committing human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims.

Biden signed the bill blocking imports from the Xinjiang region unless it's proven they weren't produced with forced labor, as well as a bill for ALS treatment.

Chinese state media criticized Intel this week before the American chipmaker issued an apology on Thursday.

Lawmakers are invested in top U.S., international, and Chinese corporations—through stocks or mutual funds—tied to human rights abuses in Xinjiang.