Human Rights
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Conflicts - Tensions
Hong Kong’s academic freedom suffers under security regime, report says
Voice of America Hong Kong’s national security law, enacted in July 2020, has eroded academic freedom in the former United Kingdom colony, according to a report released in late September 2024. The report, by the international group Human Rights Watch and the United States-based advocacy organization Hong Kong Democracy Council, said university authorities have imposed greater control and limitations on…
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PRC pushes propaganda, manipulated information about human rights abuses
Voice of America The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is using new propaganda campaigns to obscure its human rights abuses against Tibetans and Uyghurs. The PRC recently invited foreign bloggers to Xinjiang in northwest China, home to millions of Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority. It also inaugurated a communication center to produce content spreading PRC-favored information about Tibet, which…
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Human rights advocates, investigators document CCP’s transnational repression
FORUM Staff Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked intimidation, harassment and violence during CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping’s visit to San Francisco, California, sought to silence criticism of Beijing’s repressive policies. CCP supporters appeared to coordinate actions that ranged from stealing protest signs to beating demonstrators, according to investigations by The Washington Post newspaper, and the Hong Kong Democracy Council and Students…
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China’s human rights record draws sharp rebuke at U.N.
Agence France-Presse The People’s Republic of China (PRC) met stinging criticism in early July 2024 from United Nations member countries and organizations over its human rights record. All 193 U.N. member states must undergo a review every four to five years, followed by a report on the recommendations the country is willing to accept. During the PRC review in January,…
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Survey of escapees indicates worsening quality of life in North Korea
Radio Free Asia A survey of more than 6,300 North Korean escapees paints a bleak picture of life in the isolated country: Food has grown scarcer amid a weakening economy and rampant corruption. Women play a more elevated role in families and society — not because of a heightened sense of equality but out of economic necessity, interviewees said. The…
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Experts: PRC, Russia uphold North Korea’s human rights violations
FORUM Staff Japan, South Korea and the United States are aligned on improving human rights in North Korea, experts say. Meanwhile, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Russia are exacerbating conditions for a beleaguered North Korean population. “China and Russia are really helping to facilitate a worsening of the North Korean human rights situation,” Victor Cha, an Asia expert…
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South Korea, U.S. confront PRC on North Korean human rights
Radio Free Asia South Korea and the United States decried the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) repatriation of North Korean defectors, pledging to collaborate in addressing the human rights crisis in the country. The vow came as South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin met with the U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, Julie Turner, in Seoul in…
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Protester who unfurled anti-Xi messages still detained year later
Voice of America A year ago, Peng Lifa draped protest banners from Beijing’s Sitong Bridge. They unfurled to reveal exhortations against the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) zero-COVID policy, calling it a violation of freedom of expression and demanding real elections and political reform. One banner criticized CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping as a “national traitor.” Another said, “We want food,…
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