Category: Human Rights Watch

LIVE NOW: Human Rights Watch Releases Its Annual Human Rights Report

Human Rights Watch, a prestigious Human right organization, holds a news conference at 9:45 p.m. ET, on Jan 11, in Jakarta, Indonesia, to release its annual state of human rights report and its plans for 2023. The Epoch Times will livestream the event. …


Human Rights Watch Releases Its Annual Human Rights Report

Human Rights Watch, a prestigious Human right organization, holds a news conference at 9:45 p.m. ET, on Jan 11, in Jakarta, Indonesia, to release its annual state of human rights report and its plans for 2023. The Epoch Times will livestream the event. …


Chinese Police Conducting Mass DNA Collection From Tibetans for Purposes of ‘Social Control’: Canadian Researchers

The Chinese regime has been conducting mass systemic DNA collection on Tibetan civilians, with up to 1.2 million samples collected over the past five years, according to the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab. Published on Sept. 13, the study analyzed 100 publically available sources, including 44 reports containing figures of the number of DNA samples…


Human Rights Watch Urges Australia to Act on CCP’s Human Rights Abuses in Xinjiang

An advocacy group is calling on the Australian government to sanction Chinese officials for human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region. Human Rights Watch (HRW), an international non-governmental organization that works to raise awareness of human rights abuses globally, published an article on Sept. 13, urging the Australian government to “take firm action” against the…


International Outcry as Burma’s Military Executes 4 Democracy Activists

Burma’s military junta has executed four democracy activists convicted of terrorism in a move swiftly condemned by international human rights groups. The four men were executed for committing “violent and inhuman acts of terrorism,” the junta’s Information Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. This marks the first executions carried out by Burma in decades….


Does the United Kingdom Protect Human Rights?

Commentary The responses of the UK government to the COVID-19 pandemic had an overwhelming impact on human rights in that country. This is the conclusion of the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI), an international non-governmental organisation, in its 2021 human rights report. According to HRMI, “a detailed survey of human rights experts tells us that a…


Beijing Largest National Security Risk in University Research Sector: Aussie Senate Report

Australia’s taxpayer-funded university research sector has long been targeted by authoritarian regimes resulting in the transfer of sensitive research, with a new government report specifically identifying the Chinese regime as the largest, but not the only, culprit of foreign interference. In the report, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) found several instances where…


Beijing as Largest National Security Risk in University Research Sector: Aussie Senate Report

Australia’s taxpayer-funded university research sector has long been targeted by authoritarian regimes resulting in the transfer of sensitive research, with a new government report specifically identifying the Chinese regime as the largest, but not the only, culprit of foreign interference. In the report, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) found several instances where…


Activists Urge UN Rights Chief to Release Delayed Report on Xinjiang

GENEVA—Now that the Beijing Winter Olympics is over, U.N. rights chief Michelle Bachelet must release her long-delayed report on alleged violations in China’s Xinjiang region against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. Ken Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, urged Bachelet to issue her office’s findings before her March…


More Than 170 Vietnamese Activists Locked in Their Homes: Rights Group

The Vietnamese government has placed more than 170 rights activists, including their family members, under house arrest and barred them from leaving the country on “fabricated national security grounds,” a human rights group said on Thursday. Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report documenting the Vietnamese government’s “systematic blocking” of more than 170 rights activists,…