BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal: Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.16.12// METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Ical BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191103T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20200308T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.1156715.field_date.0@carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu DTSTAMP:20210301T011741Z DESCRIPTION:\n  \;The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy is excited to announce its 2019 Speaker Series: \;Human Rights in Hard Places.\n\n\n \n The Human Rights in Hard Places Speaker Series was formed to underscore that despite the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948\, \;vast human rights abuses are still occurring \;7 decades later. \;\n\n\n\n We hope for this to serve as a platform for individua ls to hear from the world's leading practitioners and academics in the hum an rights field\, and to listen\, question and engage. \; \;\n\n\n \n Dolkun Isa\, President of the World Uyghur Congress\, \;will give a talk titled\, 'China &\; Human Rights: The Future of the Uyghur Communi ty.' \;\n\n\n\n Dolkun Isa: \;\n\n\n\n President of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) and Vice President of the Unrepresented Nation &\; Peop les Organization (UNPO)\, Mr. Dolkun Isa is a former student-leader of the pro-democracy demonstrations at Xinjiang University in 1988 in East Turki stan. He founded the Students’ Science and Culture Union at the university in 1987 and worked on programs to eliminate illiteracy and to promote sci ence and to lead other students in East Turkestan. He was then dismissed f rom university but completed his physics degree via independent study\, an d went on to receive a Master’s degree in Politics and Sociology from Gazi University in Turkey and a degree in Computer Science in Munich\, Germany . After enduring persecution from the Chinese government\, Isa fled China in 1994 and sought asylum in Europe and became a citizen of Germany in 200 6.\n\n\n\n In November 1996\, he played an important role in establishing t he World Uyghur Youth Congress in Germany and served as Executive Chairman and President. In April 2004\, he also played an important role in the es tablishment of the World Uyghur Congress through the merger of the East Tu rkestan National Congress and the World Uyghur Youth Congress and was elec ted General Secretary. He has since been presenting Uyghur human rights is sues to the UN Human Rights Council\, European Parliament\, European gover nments and international human rights organizations. Dolkun Isa is the cur rent President of the World Uyghur Congress.\n\n\n\n Isa was also the leade r of the students’ demonstration on 15 June 1988 and was expelled from the university in September 1988 after four months of house arrest and a six hour-long dialogue with government officials about the students’ demands. Following this\, he operated a small business and travelled to various cit ies in China and East Turkestan to collect information about the Chinese g overnment’s Uyghur policy between 1988 and 1990. From 1990 to 1994\, he le arnt English and Turkish at Beijing Foreign Language University and engage d in copying and distributing relevant Uyghur history books to the Uyghur community. In 1994\, he was forced to leave China and fled to Turkey\, whe re he received his Master’s Degree in Political Science from Gazi Universi ty in Ankara. He then founded the Eastern Turkestan Youth Union and served as the Chairman during his time in in the country.Dolkun Isa has consiste ntly advocated for the rights of the Uyghur people and has raised the issu e in the United Nations\, the institutions of the European Union and in in dividual states. He has worked to mobilize the Uyghur diaspora community t o collectively advocate for their rights and the rights of the Uyghur popu lation in the Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. He was recognized for his efforts in raising awareness of the human rights situation facing the Uyg hur people and for calling for greater democracy and freedom in China by r eceiving the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s Human Rights Award on 30 March 2016. In 2017\, he was elected as the Vice-President of the U nrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO)\, of which the World Uyghur Congress is a member. In this capacity\, he works with other margin alized or unrepresented peoples to collectively strive for democracy\, fre edom and respect for basic human rights.\n\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190328T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190328T130000 LAST-MODIFIED:20190313T210058Z LOCATION:Taubman Room 520\, 79 JFK Street Cambridge\, MA\, 02138 SUMMARY:Human Rights in Hard Places Speaker Series: China & Human Rights: T he Future of the Uyghur Community URL;TYPE=URI:https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/human-rights-hard-pla ces-speaker-series-crimes-against-humanity-uyghurs-victims-china%E2%80%99s END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR