IUF 2026 — Current
International Uyghur Forum 2026
11–13 June 2026 · Berlin, Germany
11–13 June 2026 · Berlin, Germany
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) in partnership with the Uyghur Center for Democracy and Human Rights (UZDM) is convening the third International Uyghur Forum — "Ten Years Since the Camps: From Recognition to Accountability – What's Next?" — from June 11–13, 2026, in Berlin, Germany, supported by the Uyghur Friendship Group in the German Bundestag. The forum aims to bring together approximately 150 participants and move the global response decisively from recognition to accountability.
Germany-based human rights activist and independent China researcher
Chair of the WUC Research Center
Coordinator and Data Technician at Uyghur Transitional Justice Database (UTJD)
Researcher on Turkology
Vice Chairman of the JUA and Director of East Asia Affairs at the World Uyghur Congress
Director of Bitter Winter
Executive Director of the Center for Uyghur Studies
WUC Executive Committee Vice Chair
President of the Uyghur PEN Centre
Senior Research Fellow in China Studies for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
President of East Turkistan Human Rights Watch Association
Director General, Centro para la Apertura y el Desarrollo de América Latina (CADAL)
Chair of the WUC Legal Committee
Chairman of Global Human Rights Defence
Deputy Chair of the WUC Executive Committee
Chair of WUC’s Refugees Center
President of Uyghur Projects Foundation
Researcher and Senior Lecturer in East Asian History at University of Manchester
Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School and Former President of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA)
Professor, Human Rights Lawyer
Human rights lawyer, Counsel to both the China Tribunal and the Uyghur Tribunal
British Barrister, Chief Prosecutor at the ICTY
Senior Advocacy Manager at the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR)
Vice President of the WUC
Professor of International Human Rights Law at Essex University, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Maldives, Former UN Special Rapporteur on FoRB
Mexican human rights lawyer and member of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID)
Deputy of WUC Executive Committee
Camp Survivor
President of ERIAD
Founder and Executive Director of Justice for All International (JPTi)
WUC Berlin Director & Treasurer
President of the Swiss Uyghur Association and Chair of the WUC Youth Committee
Associate Professor of Law at University of Ottawa
Professor of Psychiatry at Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU)
Professor of Psychiatry
Member of the Hungarian Parliament & Former Deputy Mayor in the 1st District of Budapest
First Deputy Mayor of Prague
Elected Council Member of the Amsterdam City Hall
Elected Council Member of the Paris City Hall
Society for Threatened Peoples
Thai Lawyer
Egyptian HRD & Director of Law and Democracy Support Foundation
Researcher at Sinopsis
International Campaign for Tibet
WUC EU Officer
Chair of WUC Health Committee
President of Uyghur Academy International
Chair of the WUC Women’s Committee
Publisher at Optimum International
Exeucutive Director of Stop Uyghur Genocide
Secretary General of Freedom for Hong Kong
UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Form of Slavery
Director in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
Association of Ethical Shareholders
Former President of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
Executive Director of Campaign for Uyghurs (CFU) & Chair of the WUC Executive Committee
Vice President of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD)
Senator, France
Representative of the Taipei Representative Office in the Federal Republic of Germany
Sikyong, Central Tibetan Administration
First Secretary of the Socialist Party, France
Vice-President of the Senate of the Czech Republic
Member of the German Bundestag
UZDM President
WUC President
Professor at Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Leader of the Bloc Québécois, MP Canada
Turkologist and translator
Fortify Rights
Member of Parliament for Lac-Saint-Jean, Canada
European Parliament, Chair of Committee on Legal Affairs
UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances
Tibet Initiative Deutschland
Secretary-General, Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO)
International Republican Institute
René Cassin
Representative of Taiwan, Taipei Representative Office in the EU and Belgium
Will be published after the event
| 17:00 – 19:00 | Opening Ceremony |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Networking |
| ↳ "Vanished Voices" Photo Exhibition | |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | Opening Ceremony |
| 18:30 – 19:00 | Fireside Chat — The Future of EU–China Relations |
| 19:00 – 21:00 | Dinner |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Panel 1: Testing Global Red Lines: East Turkistan, Tibet & Taiwan |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Panel 2: Tracing Complicity: Business, Supply Chains & Human Rights |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Parallel Sessions |
| ↳ Roundtable 1: Codifying Assimilation: China's New Ethnic Unity Framework | |
| ↳ Roundtable 2: Diasporas Under Pressure: The Threat of Transnational Repression | |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Parliamentary Luncheon (by invitation only) |
| 13:00 – 14:15 | Lunch Break |
| 14:15 – 15:15 | Panel 3: The Cities Taking a Stand: Amsterdam, Budapest, Paris & Prague |
| 15:15 – 16:15 | Panel 4: Did the Multilateral System Fail? |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Lightning Talk by Uyghur Transitional Justice Database (UTJD) |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee Break |
| 17:00 – 18:30 | Parallel Sessions |
| ↳ Roundtable 3: Beyond Burnout: Building Sustainable Activism | |
| ↳ Roundtable 4: Strengthening the Uyghur Resilience Movement (in Uyghur) | |
| 19:00 – 21:00 | Dinner |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Panel 5: What Next? Advancing International Accountability and Multilateral Response (UN) |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Panel 6: The Courthouse and the Geopolitical Ceiling: Why Law Isn't Enough |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Parallel Sessions |
| ↳ Roundtable 5: Contemporary Uyghur Identity, Culture and Historical Memory | |
| ↳ Roundtable 6: No Safe Haven: Uyghur Refugees and Global Insecurity | |
| 13:00 – 14:15 | Lunch Break |
| 14:15 – 15:15 | Panel 7: The Belt and Road Initiative Trap |
| 15:15 – 16:15 | Parallel Events |
| ↳ Event 1: Book Fair + Q&A | |
| ↳ Event 2: Workshop — Manufacturing Reality: AI and the CCP's Information War | |
| 16:15 – 16:45 | Coffee Break |
| 16:45 – 17:45 | Panel 8: From Surveillance to Criminalisation: Attacks on Religious Freedom |
| 17:45 – 18:30 | Closing Ceremony |
| 19:00 – 21:00 | Dinner |