Feds under fire for deferring decision to declare China’s actions against Uyghurs as genocide

A Global Affairs legal adviser told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that an international court or tribunal 'must' declare whether a genocide has taken place, but international law experts disagree.

Appearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on March 24, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said the government takes allegations of genocide 'very seriously,' and she looks forward to reading the report coming from UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, who will be visiting China in May. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

April 6, 2022

As MPs across the partisan spectrum question why the Canadian government has yet to declare that the Chinese government’s repression of Uyghurs constitutes genocide, Global Affairs says an international court or tribunal must be the one to make the declaration, but international law experts say th...

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