Beyond Borders: Evaluating China’s Xinjiang Policies through the Lens of International Human Rights Law

Policies of the People’s Republic of China in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are studied using international human rights law. Various leaked papers and images, sightings from witnesses and testimonies from rights groups point out that Uyghurs endure mistreatment on several occasions. It involved organizing labor camps, monitoring everyone closely, having them work and denying people places of worship or access to their traditions. Using human rights ideas from a variety of backgrounds could solve the issues in Xinjiang and make individuals in Xinjiang feel involved. Chinese regulation, existing treaties and customary international law make it possible to consider some actions in China as arbitrary detention, acts of religious and ethnic discrimination and crimes against humanity or cultural genocide. It ends by pointing out that actions by other countries to enforce their principles are shaped by a range of interests and an upholding of sovereignty, and it advises cooperation, proper investigations, and law improvements to address and prevent any more abuses in Xinjiang