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Podcast: Problematic Women
Episode: What Is Known About China’s Forced Sterilization of Uighur Women
Description: A video surfaced recently of Chinese officials herding a large group of blindfolded Uighur people onto trains in northern China.The aerial footage is reported to have been taken last year, but the details surrounding the incident are unknown. What is increasingly clear, however, is that China is carrying out horrific human rights abuses against Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim Turkic-speaking minority residing in China's Xinjiang region.Olivia Enos, The Heritage Foundation’s senior policy analyst for the Asian Studies Center, joins “Problematic Women” to explain what we do know about these human rights abuses...