China’s ambassador to South Africa, Lin Songtian, published an opinion column in the official Communist Party newspaper People’s Daily on Friday suggesting that China has the world’s “fastest human rights progress,” “anyone could express his or her views anywhere anytime” in the country, and those who condemn Chinese authoritarianism are hypocrites.
A recent ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found that German authorities had not violated a family’s rights when they stormed their home and forcibly seized their four children to prevent them from receiving homeschooling, a decision condemned by human rights advocates as “a major blow to parental rights.”
A United Nations expert described North Korea’s serial human rights abuses as creating an “extremely serious” situation in the communist country during a visit to South Korea Friday, urging Pyongyang to allow U.N. inspections and the world to resolve the current sanctions situation on the country.
New Year’s Day brought thousands of demonstrators to the streets of Hong Kong to denounce China’s oppressive policies and to demand respect for human rights and the rule of law.
Members of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movement in China dressed in Santa Claus outfits spent the Christmas holiday mailing cards to political prisoners and the Chinese officials who imprisoned them.
North Korea’s state media assailed the United States and allies at the United Nations Tuesday for helping pass a resolution condemning Pyongyang’s decades-long systematic human rights abuses, calling the resolution “a serious political provocation against the dignified” Korean state.
The wives of four Chinese human-rights lawyers imprisoned in the big crackdown of summer 2015 shaved their heads on Monday to protest the government’s treatment of their husbands. “We can go hairless, but you cannot be lawless,” they declared at the conclusion of their head-shaving event.
Contents: US issues new sanctions on North Korea over human rights abuses; North Korea threatens retaliation for the sanctions; Japan-Korea relations worsen over ‘comfort women’ issue
The Chinese government published a paper on Wednesday entitled “Progress in Human Rights Over the 40 Years of Reform and Opening Up in China.”
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was heckled off a stage at the University of Southern California on Monday evening as he attempted to deliver a speech marking the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Communist Party head President Xi Jinping of China observed International Human Rights Day on Monday by pledging to “uphold the path of human rights development that fits the Chinese context and promotes well-rounded human development.”
American country music artist Tim McGraw will host a four-day music festival in Cuba next year featuring Communist Party-approved local acts and complimentary gifts from Castro regime companies such as the illegally operating Havana Club, Billboard reported on Wednesday.
The Organization of American States (OAS) will host an unprecedented day-long event Friday offering an international platform to the victims of crimes against humanity and their families, who have suffered by the hand of Cuban communist regime.
Google reportedly excluded privacy and security employees from meetings about its “Project Dragonfly” censored Chinese search app after one employee expressed concerns over its potential effect on human rights.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo penned a no-holds-barred editorial for the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday in which he defended President Donald Trump’s approach to the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia in the wake of writer Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
China’s most famous civil rights activist has joined the chorus of critics who have denounced the recent deal between the Vatican and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a “betrayal” of Chinese Catholics.
Respected human rights organizations including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have accused authorities in Saudi Arabia of torturing and even sexually abusing some of the country’s most high profile dissidents and human rights activists.
Contents: Fifteen countries challenge China’s human rights in Xinjiang province; China’s crackdown on religions continues
North Korea’s state newspaper Rodong Sinmun condemned the United States and other Western countries for allegedly being home to the “world’s most serious violations of human rights” in an editorial Thursday.
The Beijing Fengrui law firm, once home to over 100 lawyers and some of the most sophisticated legal representation for human rights activists and enemies of the state in China, has “ceased to exist” after years of government crackdowns, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported Tuesday.
China’s state media outlets praised official Zhang Jun and its United Nations delegation on Monday for celebrating the country’s alleged human rights progress before the international forum, failing to mention Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s expansion of political re-education camps and terror campaigns against religious minorities.
Hong Kong authorities stepped up their war against Financial Times editor Victor Mallet on Thursday by refusing to allow him to enter the city as a visitor.
The enormous popularity of a rap song criticizing the Thai military junta suggests the public is growing exasperated with the military takeover. Thailand’s rulers are contemplating a crackdown that could get ugly fast.
WASHINGTON, DC – Human rights advocates urged American President Donald Trump on Monday to advance human rights in ongoing denuclearization negotiations with North Korea, noting that doing so promotes U.S. national security.
Radio Free Asia (RFA), one of the most prolific outlets in covering the ill treatment of China’s Uighur Muslim minority, reported this week that a Uighur television host is facing over a decade in prison for hosting a segment on local poverty.
The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee has given France six months to revise its ban on the full face veil in public, ruling the law to be “oppressive” against Muslims.
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has heard complaints from two women in France regarding the country’s ban on the full face Islamic veil with sources claiming they could challenge the law.
A monthly report tracking politically motivated arrests in Cuba published this week revealed that over half the victims of these arrests, most members of pro-democracy dissident groups, were women, an indication the communist regime is systematically targeting women for repression.
Cuban dissident Tomás Núñez Magdariaga, imprisoned on false charges of threats against state police, reached day 50 of his hunger strike on Wednesday.
Cuban dissidents published a video Sunday showing the head of Cuba’s pro-democracy Ladies in White group, Berta Soler, being assaulted and dragged away by state security for holding up a sign reading “Revolution is Repression.”
Beijing is using its embassies and consulates to export repression targeting members of China’s predominantly Muslim Uighur minority group abroad, including the United States, a human rights activist told American lawmakers on Wednesday.
A convicted fraudster responsible for the biggest trading loss in UK banking history has won a last-minute reprieve from his planned deportation.
A Chinese official dismissed reports of Beijing establishing “political re-education camps” for Uighur Muslims in western Xinjiang province on Thursday, telling reporters that the camps are “vocational centers” necessary to integrate less wealthy citizens into the Chinese economy.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet blasted China for its treatment of the Uighur Muslims of Xinjiang province.
Convicted fraudster and Ghanaian national Kweku Adoboli, 38, who was responsible for the biggest trading loss in UK banking history, has accused the Home Office of “racism” for deporting him for his crime.
Human rights violations and infringements on the right to life have worsened since North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un came to power in 2012, a new study released on Wednesday has indicated.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has chosen a hardline Muslim cleric as his running mate in next year’s presidential election, hoping to improve his credentials among the country’s Islamic population.
The Argentinian senate has voted down a bill that would have legalized abortion, despite an aggressive and well-funded international campaign to overturn Argentina’s protections of unborn children.
In the latest development in its ongoing diplomatic row with Canada, Saudi Arabia has announced that it will remove all patients who are currently receiving treatment in Canadian hospitals, while Ottawa urges the Islamic Kingdom to free imprisoned human rights activists.
The United States has provided a further $195 million to Egypt in military aid, despite concern over the country’s dismal human rights record.
