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Rebiya Kadeer

Uyghur entrepreneur
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November 15, 1946, Xinjiang, China (age 77)
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Rebiya Kadeer (born November 15, 1946, Xinjiang, China) Uyghur entrepreneur and human rights activist. A longtime advocate of greater autonomy for China’s Uyghurs (a Turkic Muslim population that accounts for a slim majority of the population of the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang of western China), she was nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Kadeer was born near the Altai Mountains of far northwestern China, where her father worked as a gold miner. She married at the age of 15 and subsequently helped support her growing family by sewing undergarments and shoes and selling them on the black market. ...(100 of 767 words)

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