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The International Labor Organization has adopted nearly all of the recommendations detailed in a research paper from VOC, in a major update to its forced labor guidelines not seen in over a decade.

VOC’s President and CEO, Dr. Eric Patterson, writes for Providence Magazine on the UN’s International Day of Conscience, urging the UN to use the day as an opportunity to stand against communism and all other forms of totalitarianism.

VOC’s Director of Government Relations, Karina Lipsman, joined fellow human rights groups to meet with the office of Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and discuss advancing the Uyghur Policy Act.

Washington, DC — New research from a leading China expert shows in greater detail than before how Xinjiang’s mass internment campaign was masterminded and directed by the central Chinese government and Xi Jinping.

A joint op-ed written by VOC’s Dr. Adrian Zenz, Senior Fellow and Director in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, and Rushan Abbas, Founder and Executive Director of Campaign for Uyghurs, was published in Table China highlighting released research from Dr…. Read More

An article from Newsweek cites a recent report from VOC’s Dr. Adrian Zenz, Senior Fellow and Director in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, on recent additional findings of Uyghur forced labor in Xinjiang.

A article from Politico highlights an upcoming report from VOC’s Dr. Adrian Zenz, Senior Fellow and Director in China Studies, on forced labor in Xinjiang. Zenz’s report will show that forced labor transfers are increasing.

The Financial Times released an article on recent evidence confirming that Beijing paid European far-right-wing politicians to shape public opinion on China, particularly attacking VOC’s Dr. Adrian Zenz Senior Fellow and Director in China Studies, for his work on the Xinjiang atrocities.

Representatives of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation were pleased to attend a commemorative press conference on the one-year anniversary of the White Paper pro-freedom movement in China. Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, spoke in front of the U.S. Capitol, along with Chinese pro-democracy activists and Uyghur and Hong Kong activists. Names of Chinese political prisoners were read aloud, and the CCP was decried for its numerous human rights violations.

Washington, D.C. — In a new academic paper, Dr. Adrian Zenz, Senior Fellow and Director in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, performs the first systematic assessment of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) 2012 Survey Guidelines for measuring non-internment state-imposed forced labor in Central Asia.