Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the UN Security Council’s support for people held in camps in Xinjiang, China.

The UK and likeminded countries have raised the treatment of Uyghurs in detention centres at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the main intergovernmental forum on human rights, and in the UN Third Committee of the General Assembly, which deals with human rights and humanitarian affairs.

On 10 March at the 43rd session of the HRC, the UK raised concerns about systematic human rights violations and reports of forced labour in Xinjiang during our 'Item 4' statement. On 29 October at UN Third Committee, the UK read out a joint statement signed by 22 other states drawing attention to the human rights violations and abuses in Xinjiang and calling on China to uphold its international obligations and commitments to respect human rights.