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A Religious Minority Enslaved: Addressing the Complicity of U.S. Companies in Uyghur Forced Labor U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Hearing A Religious Minority Enslaved: Addressing the Complicity of U.S. Companies in Uyghur Forced Labor Panel Sophie Richardson is the China director at Human Rights Watch. A graduate of the University of Virginia, the Hopkins-Nanjing Program, and Oberlin College, Dr. Richardson is the author of numerous articles on domestic Chinese political reform, democratization, and human rights in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Vietnam. She has testified before the European Parliament and the US Senate and House of Representatives. She has provided commentary to the BBC, CNN, the Far Eastern Economic Review, Foreign Policy, National Public Radio, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Dr. Richardson is the author of China, Cambodia, and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence (Columbia University Press, Dec. 2009), an in-depth examination of China's foreign policy since 1954's Geneva Conference, including rare interviews with policy makers. Louisa Greve is the Director of Global Advocacy for the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP). The UHRP promotes the rights of the Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim peoples in East Turkistan, referred to by the Chinese government as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Previously, Ms. Greve was Vice President for Programs and East Asia Director at the National Endowment for Democracy. She currently serves as Washington Fellow for CSW, an advocacy group promoting freedom of religion or belief for all peoples and faiths. Ms. Greve has served on the Amnesty International USA board of directors, the Virginia Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the International Advisory Committee of the Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China, among others. She is the author of several book chapters on ethnic issues and human rights in China and has testified before Congress on democracy in Asia. Bios, A Religious Minority Enslaved: Addressing the Complicity of U.S. Companies in Uyghur Forced Labor Scott Nova is the Executive Director of the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC). The WRC is an independent labor rights monitoring organization that conducts investigations of working conditions in factories around the globe. Prior to joining the WRC, Nova was the Executive Director of the Citizens Trade Campaign, a national coalition of environmental, religious, human rights, labor and other public interest groups. Nova has also served as the Director of the Preamble Center, a DC-based research and policy organization that focused on a broad range of economic issues, from Social Security to international commerce. As a community leader in Rhode Island before moving to Washington, Nova helped found a number of statewide public interest organizations, including the Consumer Alliance, a coalition of auto insurance consumers, and People First, a network of groups promoting equitable tax, budget and social welfare policy. Adrian Zenz, Ph.D. is a non-resident Senior Fellow in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington, D.C. He also supervises Ph.D. students at the European School of Culture and Theology in Korntal, Germany. His research focus is on China’s ethnic policy, public recruitment in Tibet and Xinjiang, Beijing’s internment campaign in Xinjiang, and China’s domestic security budgets. Dr. Zenz is the author of ‘Tibetanness’ under Threat and a co-editor of Mapping Amdo: Dynamics of Change. He has played a leading role in the analysis of leaked Chinese government documents, including the “China Cables” and the “Karakax List.” Dr. Zenz is an advisor to the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, and a frequent contributor to the international media. Olivia Enos is the Senior Policy Analyst in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation, where her work focuses on human rights and national security challenges in Asia. Her research spans a wide range of subjects, including democracy and governance challenges, human trafficking and human smuggling, religious freedom, refugee issues, and other social challenges in the region. Enos, who joined Heritage in 2013, has published numerous papers on human rights in North Korea and China, threats to democracy in Southeast Asia, human trafficking in Asia, and reforming the U.S. refugee program, among other subjects. Enos has a bi-monthly column in Forbes where she writes on the intersection between human rights challenges and national security concerns. Bios, A Religious Minority Enslaved: Addressing the Complicity of U.S. Companies in Uyghur Forced Labor .
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