Compulsory sterilization
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Compulsory sterilization, also known as forced or coerced sterilization, refers to any government-mandated program to involuntarily sterilize a specific group of people. Sterilization removes a person
A young Rhinelander who was classified as a bastard and hereditarily unfit under the Nazi regime
Bilingual poster in English and Spanish for a rally against forced sterilization
Since 2014, the government of the People's Republic of China has committed a series of ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang which has often been c
Compulsory sterilization
…but this is difficult to confirm due to the closed-off nature of the area. These measures have sometimes been characterised as part of an ongoing Uyghur genocide in the province. Czechoslovakia carried out a policy to sterilize Romani women, starting in 1973 and continuing through the Velvet Revolution of 1989…
Detainees listening to speeches in a camp in Lop County, Xinjiang, April 2017
Mihrigul Tursun, a former detainee of the Xinjiang internment camps
Posters in Bordeaux, France, accusing Nike of complicity in the Uyghur genocide.
Mosque in Tuyoq, Xinjiang (2005)