Munich [Germany] July 26 (ANI): The World Uyghur Congress (WUC), in its latest weekly brief, highlighted a series of developments concerning the rights of Uyghurs, including a submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), opposition to China’s newly enforced Ethnic Unity Law, the deportation of a Uyghur asylum seeker from Germany to China, and new academic research on investigating state repression in authoritarian regimes.

According to the WUC weekly brief, on July 20, 2026, the WUC and the Uyghur Center for Democracy and Human Rights (UZDM) jointly submitted a report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child ahead of China’s upcoming review by the Committee. The report is intended to inform the Committee’s pre-sessional working group, scheduled to meet from September 29 to October 2, 2026.

As cited in the WUC weekly brief, the report examines the situation of Uyghur children through the framework of the Convention on the ...