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To gather and distribute information concerning Southern (Inner) Mongolian human rights situation and general human rights issues;

To promote and protect ethnic Mongolians’ all kind of rights such as basic human rights, indigenous rights, minority rights, civil rights, and political rights in Southern Mongolia;

To encourage human rights and democracy grassroots movements in Southern Mongolia;

To promote human rights and democracy education in Southern Mongolia;

To improve the international community’s understanding of deteriorating human rights situations, worsening ethnic, cultural and environmental problems in Southern Mongolia;

Ultimately, to establish a democratic political system in Southern Mongolia.

SMHRIC Welcomes US Senate's New Bipartisan Bill Calling Attention to Human Rights Violations in Southern Mongolia

           ...  “As Beijing continues to repress the rights and cultures of ethnic minorities, America must be unwavering in its support of those fighting for their fundamental freedoms,” Senator Merkley said in a press release today. “The Southern Mongolian Human Rights Policy Act sends an unequivocal message: the United States will not stand for the Chinese government’s efforts to erase Mongolian language, culture, and identity. Our bill makes clear that the status quo for human rights—in Southern Mongolia and across China—is unacceptable.”“The Chinese Communist Party not only has nefarious designs on America’s global interests and our critical industries, it has also worked to undermine internationally recognized human rights across the globe, including in Southern Mongolia,” Senator Sullivan stated in the press release. “The plight of the Southern Mongolian people, who were promised autonomy, is similar to the plight of other ethnic and religious minorities in China who are forced into “reeducation” camps, denied religious rights and the right to speak in their own language, forcibly removed from their homes, and forced to engage in slave labor. In Congress, we have appropriately focused on the mistreatment of of other ethnic groups in China  ....

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Herders stage protest demanding compensation

           ... Mongolian herders from eastern Southern (Inner) Mongolia’s Heshigten Banner staged a protest on November 3, 2024, demanding compensation from the local government. According to the protestors, the government of Heshigten Banner has continually withheld a large sum of compensation supposedly already paid to the local Mongolian herders for the Chinese authorities’ livestock grazing ban imposed on the pastoralist communities. “We are herders from Heshigten Banner of Chifeng Municipality. We are gathering here in front of the Banner government, demanding the payment of grazing land and livestock compensation,” one protesting herder stated in a short video posted on the Chinese social media platform Douyin. Apparently, the Banner government failed to keep its promise to answer the herders’ call. “We were here on October 29th as well. What the government told us was to answer our demand today, Monday,” the protestor said. “But it has been three hours already. No one from the government is receiving us.” Being denied compensation for two consecutive years starting in 2023, the herders called for the higher authorities to intervene and demanded a satisfactory explanation. Another herder from Heshigten Banner  ....

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Japan: Chinese authorities harass critics abroad

           ... A.B. is from Inner Mongolia, a region of northern China where ethnic minority Mongols who mainly speak Mongolian comprise 17 percent of the population. A.B. came to Japan for work in 2018 and said he joined peaceful protests in Japan against the Chinese government’s policy of replacing Mongolian with Mandarin Chinese at schools. He said. In response to the language issue, I felt that if I didn’t say anything myself, we [eventually] wouldn’t be able to do anything, so I started expressing my opinions against the Chinese government, against Beijing…. At first, I didn’t disclose my name and face, I wore a mask. My [relatives] were worried about me. I wasn’t sure about my future, I didn’t have capacity to think about it…. I eventually found a job [in Japan], and that’s when I went public with my face and name. Since going public, A.B. said that officials of the local public security bureau – China’s police – in Inner Mongolia have visited his relatives, who are not politically active. Two CCTV videos both timestamped on the same date in 2022, provided by A.B. and verified by Human Rights Watch to have been filmed in Inner Mongolia, show a car with sirens marked “public security bureau” driving up to his relative’s home. Three men, one apparently  ....

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Southern Mongolian representatives spoke at a briefing of UN member states during UNGA

           ... What is happening in Southern Mongolia today is another form of genocide, cultural genocide. Starting last September, Government of China has completely banned Mongolian language in all schools across the region. Anything with Mongolian characteristics are removed from buildings, streets and parks. Those who protest these policies are criminalized and imprisoned. As you all know, China is a signatory to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. But the Government of China publicly claimed that China does not have indigenous people and indigenous issues, because “indigenous issues are a product of Western Colonization only”, claiming that “there is no Western Colonization in China today. Therefore there is no indigenous issues”, according to the Chinese Government. This is how China issues free pass to herself and continues to carry out all forms of human rights violations, not only in Southern Mongolia, but also in other occupied nations including Tibet and East Turkistan. I urge the international community especially democratic nations to hold China accountable for its horrendous crimes and atrocities perpetrated in the occupied nations of Southern Mongolia, Tibet and East Turkistan in front of the eyes of the international  ....

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