The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice, and the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC) welcome the successful advancement of S.4009, the Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act,… Read More
Every year, VOC commemorates what happened on June 4, 1989, when the Chinese Communist Party crushed a massive pro-democracy movement by sending tanks into Tiananmen Square. Beijing has since erased all mention of June 4 from its history. We still… Read More
A must-read exposé from the Financial Times features key research and insight from VOC’s Dr. Adrian Zenz on China’s cultural genocide against the Uyghurs. Journalist Alison Killing argues that the CCP has entered a new phase of repression, expanding its… Read More
Last month, firsthand testimony from a former Han Chinese police officer who supervised Uyghur labor transfers in Xinjiang described how the system works. Workers are taken to cotton fields under armed escort. Identity cards are confiscated to prevent escape. Those who refuse… Read More
On Thursday, May 14, VOC Fellow Ethan Gutmann spoke before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China on a panel entitled A Market Built on Victims: Stopping Illegal Organ Trafficking in China and Beyond. Gutman provided detailed accounts of his groundbreaking field… Read More
On Tuesday, April 28, VOC’s Associate Director of China Studies, Serkan Tas, testified before the Office of the United States Trade Representative regarding the Section 301 investigation into economies that have failed to effectively prohibit the importation of goods produced… Read More
In a new report from the Victims of Communism Foundation, Dr. Adrian Zenz, VOC’s Senior Fellow and Director in China Studies, outlines a long-needed framework to better identify and measure systems of forced labor, empowering national and multilateral entities to… Read More
Pop Mart’s viral Labubu dolls, sold in “blind boxes” across U.S. retail stores, are linked to state-imposed forced labor in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, a new study confirms. Independent laboratory testing verified by The New York Times and published… Read More
Speaking with the New York Times, VOC Senior Fellow and Director of China Studies Adrian Zenz explains how the viral Labubu dolls, sold across America by the Chinese company Pop Mart, are linked to state-imposed forced labor in China’s Xinjiang… Read More
Pop Mart’s Viral Labubu Toys Expose Forced Labor in Global Supply Chains Pop Mart’s collectible Labubu dolls, sold in “blind boxes” across U.S. retail stores, contain cotton that traces directly to China’s Xinjiang region, where up to 3 million Uyghurs… Read More