Zumretay Arkin
@ZumretErkin
Uyghur Activist from 🇨🇦, based in 🇩🇪|| Director of Global Advocacy 🇺🇳 /Spokeperson @Uyghurcongress. || Views my own, 🔁 not endorsement.
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23-11-2015 19:58:56
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Keine Weiterentwicklung des Freihandelsabkommen mit China ohne Menschenrechte, Herr Bundesrat Guy Parmelin! #NoComplicity
Helene Budliger Artieda SECO WBF DEFR EAER act.campax.org/petitions/rote…
Dünya Uygur Kurultayı sözcüsü Zumretay Arkin, Çin'in Uygurlara karşı soykırımı ve inanç özgürlüğünü bastırmasını duyurmaya yönelik çalışmaları nedeniyle, Roosevelt’in onuruna tesis edilen Dört Özgürlük Ödülü kapsamında İnanç Özgürlüğü Ödülü'ne layık görüldü.
Ödül töreni, Hollanda
It was an honour to meet with the 🇳🇱Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the King, the Queen and the rest of the Royal Family.
📣 PRESS RELEASE 📣
The WUC Director of Global Advocacy and Chair of the Women’s Committee, Zumretay Arkin was awarded the Freedom of Worship Award by the Roosevelt Foundation in recognition of her dedicated fight for the rights of Uyghurs. Ms. Arkin accepted the reward on behalf
Made it to Middleburg today to attend the Roosevelt Foundation welcoming ceremony with the other incredible laureates. Eliot Higgins, Grace Forrest, Sonia Guajajara, SAVEUKRAINE 🇺🇦 !
Zumretay Arkin receives the Freedom of Worship Award.
Zumretay Arkin has been campaigning for years for the rights of Uyghurs, a people in western China.
More info at fourfreedoms.nl
#fourfreedoms #freedom #Uyghur
This week, WUC’s Director of Global Advocacy, Zumretay Arkin together with Uyghur Human Rights Project Associate Director for Research & Advocacy Peter Irwin are attending the #HRC55 , meeting with 🇺🇳experts, diplomatic missions and the International Labour Organization.
#EndUyghurForcedLabour #EndUyghurGenocide
Great meeting many inspiring and women in positions of power from around the 🌎! Pleasure to meet Merem Mastoura Tahar #التباوية and Michelle Bachelet .
Merci ma très chère Geneviève Garrigos pour cet accueil 🙏🏼
I had the opportunity to meet with the Foreign Minister of Mongolia 🇲🇳 Battsetseg Batmunkh at the International Women’s Day conférence in Paris.
Join us on Wednesday in #Geneva for this #HRC55 side event on the role of human rights defenders in fostering accountability for atrocity crimes featuring remarks from Ahmed Abofoul | أحمد أبو فول Al-Haq الحق, Zumretay Arkin World Uyghur Congress, Yasmin Ullah, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing, Michael Fakhri & more.
HOW IRONIC!
PSA: don’t be fooled by China. 🇨🇳 is the perpetrator of genocide itself. Remember? The #UyghurGenocide .
This narrative is counterproductive and hurtful to communities that are at risk.