Indian Uyghur Society Marks International Women’s Day: Honoring the Resilience and Suffering of Women in East Turkistan

8 March 2025
Press Release – For Immediate Release
Indian Uyghur Society (IUS)
IndiaUyghur.org
indianuyghursociety@gmail.com

SRINAGAR — On International Women’s Day, the Indian Uyghur Society (IUS) joins the global community in celebrating the achievements of women while drawing urgent attention to the plight of Uyghur and other Turkic women in East Turkistan. As the world honors women’s rights and freedoms today, we cannot forget that millions of women in East Turkistan are being systematically deprived of their most fundamental human dignity.

Under China’s brutal occupation, Uyghur women are stripped of their rights to be mothers through forced sterilizations and abortions. They are subjected to forced marriages with Chinese men, coerced into slave labor that leaves them homeless and landless, and denied the right to educate their children in their own language and culture. The tears of our mothers, sisters, and daughters continue to flow with sorrow, marking a genocide that specifically targets the biological and cultural future of our nation.

“Our struggle is not just for political freedom, but for the safety and dignity of every Uyghur woman,” said Wasim Abdullah, President of the Indian Uyghur Society. “Until the day when the women of East Turkistan shed tears of happiness and freedom instead of grief, our rightful struggle will continue. We will not rest until justice is served.”

The Indian Uyghur Society calls on women’s rights organizations, governments, and people of conscience everywhere to amplify the voices of Uyghur women, to condemn the crimes committed against them, and to stand in solidarity with their fight for survival, dignity, and liberation.