At the UN in October 23 nations condemned Beijing’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang. Sadly 54 others backed a response praising Beijing’s “remarkable achievements in the field of human rights.” […]
Turkey has now launched its offensive against the Kurdish Syrian Defense Forces in North East Syria, days after Donald Trump called President Tayyip Erdogan then tweeted that US troops would […]
On July 30th the UN issued an unusually angry briefing concerning the July 12 shooting of a nine-year-old Palestinian child, Abdul Rahman Shteiwi, by Israeli Security Forces during the weekly protest […]
On July 18th, in Westminster Hall, MPs lined up to list human rights abuses perpetrated by Saudi Arabia, particularly against women, and to ask the government to openly criticise Crown […]
More than 2,000 non-Iraqi ISIS suspects detained in Syria by Western-backed Syria Democratic Forces may soon be transferred to Iraq for prosecution, since most of their countries are refusing to […]
When might we draw the line and refuse to supply weapons to another State? Egypt might be a case for consideration. For the last 6 years a war has been […]
The last time the doctor visited Brunei a bunch of British soldiers got off the plane… which may not seem relevant to Brunei Darussalam’s new penal code, but it is. […]
China doesn’t like criticism. In September 2013 a Chinese Human Rights lawyer, Cao Shunli, was arrested when trying to fly to Geneva to attend China’s last periodic review by the […]
The prominent Chinese rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang has just been sentenced to four and a half years in prison for “subversion of state power.” His crime was defending political activists, […]
Bad news for Sri Lankan Tamils and, indeed, anyone who thinks rewarding war criminals is basically bad. On January 10th Major General Shavendra Silva was appointed Chief of Staff of […]
IS CHINA trying to erase the identity of the Uyghur people? Of the 10m Uyghurs in Xinjiang province, western China, around one in eight is now interned in a re-education […]
‘I tickled the little feet thinking I would get a little smile. And it was just like tickling a ghost.’ David Beasley of the World Food Programme describes seeing a […]
Mrs May’s search for “new partnership” led her to Nigeria last month. She took a delegation of twenty-nine business figures to ‘showcase opportunities for a Global Britain,’ promising that the […]
Back in 2006, allegations first came to light that prisoners of conscience were being killed on demand for organ transplants throughout China, but in 2015 China said they had transitioned […]
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