Since 2014, the government of the People's Republic of China has committed a series of ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang which has often been characterized as genocide. There have been reports of mass arbitrary arrests and detention, torture, mass surveillance, cultural and religious persecution, family separation, forced labour, sexual violence, and violations of reproductive rights. Beginning in 2017the government incarcerated over an estimated one million Uyghurs without legal process in internment camps officially described as "vocational education and training centres", in the largest mass internment of an ethnic-religious minority group since World War II.