URRF— Uyghur Refugee Relief Fund

About Us

Uyghur Refugee Relief Fund (URRF) is a non-profit organization registered in Ontario, Canada in March 2019, with the generous support of our Uyghur community across Canada on a volunteer basis. URRF is intended to work with various government organizations, NGOs and communities around the world to offer logistic and settlement services for Uyghur refugees in dire need. URRF promotes the resettlement of Uyghur refugees who fled China's ongoing prosecution, to safe countries, including in Canada. This is done through Government sponsorship and community sponsorship programs, and we offer various forms of assistance to address their needs for smooth transition to their new life, as well as their education and counselling.
More than 70 years of iron-fisted crackdown by China has took a dramatic turn when China incarcerated more than 3 million Uyghurs in modern day concentration camps without any due process 3 years ago. The entire Uyghur region has become an open-air prison, families and children are shattered. This unprecedented Chinese repression has caused thousands of Uyghurs fleeing to save their lives by leaving everything behind. URRF has been established to work with government and non-governmental global partners to address the dire need of those displaced Uyghur refugees fleeing from Chinese prosecution. This Fund will support life-saving assistance and relief efforts for displaced, Stateless Uyghur Refugees, Uyghur Orphanages in various unsafe countries. Your support will help those survivors of Chinese prosecution and traumatized victims receive much needed immediate relief in their plea in settling to safe countries and create a future for their children.

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Uyghur Refugee Relief Fund (URRF) is committed to sponsoring Uyghur families and orphan children who are recognized as refugees by UNHCR or a foreign state into Canada. URRF will assist in the resettlement of Uyghur refugees in Canada, and provide education, counselling and other support services for Uyghur refugees in need. URRF is committed to relieve poverty among Uyghur refugees who have been displaced and living in their third country, by providing food and other basic supplies. URRF will provide community assistance for their smooth transition in adapting to real life in Canada. URRF will provide community relief for their need of accommodation, employment and other social needs that the refugees may require.

Sponsor Uyghurs Worldwide

As a newly established non-profit organization, URRF will start sponsoring Uyghur refugees who are recognized as refugees by the UNHCR or a foreign state. URRF is working closely with the Uyghur Mosque in Toronto and other Non-profit organizations in co-sponsoring Uyghur families, and is also working to obtain a Sponsorship Agreement Holder from the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada to resettle refugees from abroad through various sponsorship programs.

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Uyghur Refugees waiting for Resettlement

Currently hundreds of thousands of Uyghur refugees and orphan kids are living in third countries to escape the Chinese Communist regime's persecution and cultural genocide in East Turkistan. They live in fear and have no place to go.

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Resettlement

URRF provides resettlement assistance programs such as lodging, food, finding jobs and other basic necessities.

Volunteer

URRF needs dedicated volunteers to help the refugees during their settlement period, get their basic needs met and make our mission succeed.

Donation

URRF accepts donations from all generous people across the world. The services that URRF is providing require the necessary financial resources. Without your support and donations, our mission can not be accomplished.

Our Team

Mehmet Tohti

Director

As licensed Legal Professional and decades old accumulated experience working on Uyghur cause internationally, Mehmet Tohti is determined in finding lasting solution to the tragic situation of Uyghur refugees who are now scattered in various high risk countries of dismal human rights record and live in constant fear of possible repatriation to China where they will face cruel treatment,enforced disappearances or even killed. He lives in Mississauga Ontario.

Shawkat Imam

Chairman

Shawkat Imam is a well-respected senior member of the Uyghur community. He is one of the founding members of the Uyghur Mosque in Toronto and also served as president until recently. He has been active in organizing community activities, meetings and providing counselling and other support services to his people.

Tursun Tohti

Project Manager

Tursun Tohti is a professional engineer with B.Eng and M.Eng degrees. He works as a power engineer in an engineering consulting firm. Tursun Tohti has years of experience in project management and community services. He is committed to serving the Uyghur refugees and assisting them in any way he can.

A Success Case

Mr Pahirdin Israel family of seven people came to Canada from Turkey on Wednesday July 12, 2023 via a community sponsored program. ICNA Relief Canada and Uyghur Refugee Relief Fund (URRF) together sponsored this family. The family has been warmly welcomed by the Uyghur community in GTA, and started their new life in Canada. The family is currently living in Mississauga ON. More sponsored families are in the process of completion. Hopefully we will welcome more families soon this year.

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News on uyghurs

International media reports about the Chinese Communist regime's unprecedentedly brutal policy on the people of East Turkestan.

“I Escaped, But Not to Freedom”: Failure to Protect Uyghur Refugees

June 20, 2023 By Ben Carrdus

The urgency of a response to the plight of Uyghur refugees around the world is growing. In many countries, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is unable to fulfill its mandate for a variety of interrelated reasons: the host country is not a party to the 1951 Refugee Convention; the host country places limits on UNHCR’s reach; or UNHCR’s efforts are ineffective and there are no contingencies in place to provide protections to refugees. Amid concerns about the insufficiency of international protections, the Chinese government’s economic and diplomatic enticements are rendering Uyghur refugees in second countries ever more prone to refoulement under bilateral agreements and informal arrangements brokered with Beijing. Despite an authoritative body of evidence documenting the scale and severity of human rights violations in the Uyghur Region,1 Beijing expects host countries to deport Uyghur refugees on demand. And meanwhile, China continues to harass and intimidate Uyghur refugees around the world, which includes the punishment of Uyghur refugees’ family members still in East Turkistan.

M-62 GENERAL INFORMATION / M-62 INFORMATIONS GÉNÉRALES

On February 1, 2023, MP Sameer Zuberi’s private member’s motion M-62,[1] tabled June 21, 2022, passed unanimously with 322 votes in the House of Commons and among the cabinet, including by PM Trudeau.

The motion calls on the Canadian government to resettle 10,000 Uyghur and other Turkic Muslim refugees into Canada starting in 2024, citing the Canadian parliament’s recognition of the Uyghur genocide in February 2021 and acknowledging the urgent need for Uyghurs in danger of refoulment to China from third-party states.

Canadian Parliament votes unanimously to accept 10,000 Uyghur refugees

February 2, 2023 at 10:39 a.m. EST By Adela Suliman

Ten thousand Uyghurs may soon be able to live in Canada after its Parliament voted unanimously in favor of a motion to allow the resettlement of the persecuted mainly Muslim minority from China.

Lawmakers in Canada’s House of Commons voted in favor of the proposal 322-0 on Wednesday, with the chamber erupting into applause as the motion was carried.

U.S. Declares China's Human Rights Abuses Against Muslim Uighurs 'Genocide'

January 25, 2021 By Peter O'Dowd, Samantha Raphelson

The United States government has declared the Chinese government is committing genocide against the Uighurs, a Muslim ethnic minority, in northwest China.

'Their goal is to destroy everyone': Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape

February 2, 2021 By Matthew Hill, David Campanale and Joel Gunter

Women in China's "re-education" camps for Uighurs have been systematically raped, sexually abused, and tortured, according to detailed new accounts obtained by the BBC.

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