e-3035 (Foreign affairs)
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the House of Commons
- Canada's obligated to confront the violation of international human rights in China against the Uyghur Muslims and minorities;
- Canada’s international human rights imply that “advocating on behalf of persecuted religious and belief communities under threat’’...‘‘is an important part of Canada’s constructive engagement in the world’’;
- The UN general assembly released a statement calling the Chinese detention centers “Internment camps” distinctly similar to the Nazi concentration camps;
- Canada needs to acknowledge the Chinese government forced displacement of the Uyghur Muslims in internment camps;
- Over one million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and predominantly Muslim minorities are being held in these camps facing methods of torture that include, but are not limited to, beatings, rape, sterilization, electrocution, organ harvesting, and subjugation to medical experiments;
- The UN secretary-general reports on sexual violence as being a brutal crime, with some UN officials going on to state it as a war crime; and
- Qulbinur Sedik, a Han Chinese teacher sent to the Uyghur internment camps to teach, had undergone and seen the atrocities that the women in these detention centers faced, such as forced IUDs, sterilization, genital examinations, and consistent gang rapes from officers.
- Open for signature
- December 29, 2020, at 10:27 a.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- April 28, 2021, at 10:27 a.m. (EDT)