Category: Human Rights
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Purges of Officials in Xinjiang underscore plight of Uyghur
China’s latest crackdown on the Uyghur peoples of Xinjiang targets officials who are labelled as “two-faced”. More than 70 Uyghur have been detained in Korla, the second largest city by population. These officials have been purged, in what may be seen as a continuation of Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign being extended to Xinjiang. The latest…
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China is monitoring Britain for indications of a thaw as the incoming Labour administration considers its options.
China is hoping the advent of a new British government will offer a chance to reset the volatile relationship between the two countries, but it is unlikely to be plain sailing. State media has latched on to reports that the new Foreign Secretary David Lammy is “considering” a visit at some point. Zhao Junjie, a member of…
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China proposes jail for a human rights lawyer and arrests journalists.
Taipei [Taiwan], August 9 (ANI): Chinese prosecutors are deliberating whether to impose a jail sentence on human rights lawyer Lu Siwei and to arrest citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, as reported by US-based VOA News. Human rights activists argue that these renewed campaigns against Lu and Zhang are a part of the broader campaign of the…
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Five years after China’s attack on democracy, “the Hong Kong we used to know is gone”
Five years ago, white plumes of tear gas arced through Hong Kong’s humid air. Hundreds of thousands of angry protesters were on the streets, demanding their Beijing-appointed leader resign and calling for universal voting rights to decide their own political future. The city, historically hailed as a gateway between China and the proverbial West, felt on the…
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They previously worked for some of China’s largest firms. Now they are undertaking manual labor.
Leon Li used to play a discreet but indispensable part at one of China’s biggest tech giants. As an administrative officer, she worked around the clock to schedule meetings, prepare documents and provide her bosses with whatever support they needed. But in February, she quit the company, forgoing a stable career and comfortable salary for…
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President Joe Biden signs the Resolve Tibet Act, which strengthens America’s Tibet policy.
Dharamshala: On 12 July 2024, US President Joe Biden signed into law ‘‘Promoting a Resolution to the Tibet-China Dispute Act’’ that bolsters America’s Tibet policy through further amendments of the Tibetan Policy Act of 2002 and aims to facilitate the resolution of the longstanding conflict between Tibet and China. Known as the Resolve Tibet Act,…
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EU Should Add Xinjiang, Aluminum to Forced Labor Database
On Tuesday, the United States government added aluminum to its list of priority sectors for the enforcement of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. The law aims to block any good made in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region tainted by state-imposed forced labor from entering the US market. The US decision aligns with the findings of Human Rights…
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The United Kingdom’s Labour Party is likely to prioritize China commerce over human rights.
Luke de Pulford is founder and executive director of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, the world’s largest political initiative on the subject. Previously he co-founded and ran the anti-slavery charity Arise. Labour’s landslide in Thursday’s general election means that for the first time in 14 years, the U.K. will have a center-left prime minister on…
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China rejects crucial Western proposals for human rights changes at a United Nations meeting.
GENEVA – China on Thursday rejected Western-led recommendations for human-rights reforms, including calls for greater freedoms in Hong Kong and for Uyghurs in Xinjiang, but accepted others from allies, as it sought to defend its record at a U.N. meeting. The U.N. Human Rights Council session in Geneva caps off a review process in which Beijing…
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China defends its human rights record at the UN summit.
China faced international criticism about its human rights record Thursday at a United Nations Human Rights Council session in Geneva. Criticism focused mainly on the country’s persecution of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. While the council’s president, Omar Zniber, said China had accepted nearly 70% of more than 400 reform recommendations from U.N. members, Western countries contend…