The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
Via email

Dear Madam Speaker:

We the undersigned groups, urge swift passage of House Resolution 317, condemning the ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity committed against the Uyghur people and calling on the President to take “all possible actions” to end these atrocity crimes.

No time is to be lost. The ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity against the Uyghur people must be addressed on an emergency basis.

We commend House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Michael McCaul for introducing the Resolution, and Committee Chairman Gregory Meeks for swift action to secure Committee approval on April 21. We hope you will bring the motion to the floor very soon.

The bipartisan Resolution calls upon the President to “use the voice, vote, and influence of the United States” to refer the People’s Republic of China‘s genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other Turkic groups to the United Nations for investigation.

Crucially, the Resolution calls for the President to direct the US Permanent Mission to the United Nations to “seize the United Nations Security Council of the circumstances of this genocide and crimes against humanity and lead efforts to invoke multilateral sanctions in response to these ongoing atrocities; and take all possible actions to bring this genocide and these crimes against humanity to an end and hold the perpetrators of these atrocities accountable under international law.”

Uyghurs in the diaspora around the world, and groups concerned with genocide prevention, religious freedom, and human rights for all, fully endorse this Resolution and urge swift passage.

Most sincerely yours,

1. Uyghur American Association
2. Uyghur Human Rights Project
3. Campaign for Uyghurs
4. World Uyghur Congress
5. Australian East Turkistan Association
6. Australian Uyghur Tangritagh Women’s Association
7. Belgium Uyghur Association
8. Boston Uyghur Association
9. Dutch Uyghur Human Rights and Democracy Foundation
10. East Turkistan Association of Canada
11. East Turkistan Education and Solidarity Association
12. East Turkistan Foundation
13. East Turkistan Human Rights Watch
14. East Turkistan Union in Europe
15. Isa Yusuf Alptekin Foundation
16. Japan Uyghur Association
17. Norwegian Uyghur Committee
18. Nozugum Foundation
19. Sweden Uyghur Education Union
20. Switzerland Uyghur Association
21. UK Uighur Association
22. Uyghur Human Rights and Democracy Center
23. Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project
24. Uyghur Transitional Justice Database
25. Victoria Uyghur Association
26. Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
27. No Business with Genocide
28. Jewish World Watch
29. Minaret Foundation
30. Jewish Community Relations Council/American Jewish Committee Detroit (JCRC/AJC Detroit)
31. Jewish Movement for Uyghur Freedom
32. Justice for All – Save Uighur Campaign
33. Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
34. Hong Kong Democracy Council, US
35. Human Rights in China
36. Humanitarian China
37. International Campaign for Tibet (ICT)
38. International Tibet Network Secretariat
39. China Against the Death Penalty
40. China Aid
41. Citizen Power Initiatives for China
42. Dialogue China