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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A study calling for the retraction of Chinese scientific papers on organ transplantation because of unethical procurement of organs was published last week in the medical journal BMJ Open. Many […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
Something is rotten in the state of Israel when a 14-year-old girl can be shot dead for unarmed protest against impoverished entrapment in a strip of blockaded land that strangles […]
The Human Rights Council has just reviewed Sri Lanka, and seem disappointed. Despite promises to reform (seeking the Holy Grail of trade deals), President Sirisena’s government continues to favour torture […]
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