Category: human rights

China ‘Continues to Commit Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity’: Blinken

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on April 12 of carrying out genocide and crimes against humanity throughout 2021. “The Chinese government continues to commit genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, against predominately Muslim Uyghurs among other minority groups,” Blinken said. Blinken delivered the remarks at a briefing…


LIVE: Blinken Delivers Remarks on Human Rights Report


Canadian MPs Urge Passage of Organ Trafficking Bill in Honour of Late Rights Champion David Kilgour

MPs rose in the House of Commons on April 8 to table a petition requesting the passage of a bill combating organ trafficking in honour of David Kilgour, a former cabinet minister and renowned human rights advocate. Kilgour, who had a long career in politics, passed away on April 5 from a rare lung disease….


Nigerian Bandits Rampage Across Nation, Encamp Near Capital

In a brazen show of power, a large band of motorbike riding bandit terrorists has encamped in five communities outside Nigeria’s capital Abuja and may aim to exploit national elections, a defense expert tells The Epoch Times. A whirl of nine bloody bandit attacks in three of Nigeria’s northern states has claimed more than 160 lives…


Most Australian Solar Farms Exposed to China’s Slave Labour Supply Chains

At least six in every 10 of Australia’s largest solar farms have sourced solar panels from supply chains vulnerable to China’s Uyghur forced labour programmes. The United States, Australia, and other western countries have condemned the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over its human rights abuses against more than a million Uyghurs in Xinjiang, including its…


‘World Needs to Wake Up’: Kanter Freedom Calls for ‘Solid Action’ to Punish Communist China for Abuses

Basketball player Enes Kanter Freedom believes it’s time for the world to “wake up” and take action in the face of a belligerent communist China persecuting its own people and exporting its abuses to other parts of the world. “We need to wake up, the world needs to wake up,” he told NTD, an affiliate…


China’s Legal System Steps Up Use of Secret Detentions

News Analysis On the eve of Jan. 11, former lawyer and human rights defender Xie Yang was on a video call with Lyndon Li, a Chinese law student in England, when police suddenly appeared at his home, and the call ended abruptly. The news leaked out within a few days that Chinese authorities had taken…


US Commission Calls for Action Against China’s Bullying, Both Internally and Abroad

China’s “horrific” rights abuses and trampling on global order require a “consistent and coordinated” response from Washington and its allies, congressmen called for in an annual report (pdf) released by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) on March 31. Whether it is systematic repression of human rights domestically, globally economic coercion, or aggressive “wolf warrior”…


US Commission Calls for Action Against China’s Rights Abuses, Both Internally and Abroad

China’s “horrific” rights abuses and trampling on global order require a “consistent and coordinated” response from Washington and its allies, according to an annual report (pdf) released by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) on March 31. Whether it is systematic repression of human rights domestically, globally economic coercion, or aggressive “wolf warrior” diplomacy, all…


Watchdogs Say Press Freedom Under Attack in Nigeria

BIRNIN KEBBI, Nigeria—Press freedom in Nigeria is under growing attack, according to media watchdogs and reporters interviewed by The Epoch Times. That’s the opinion of human-rights lawyer Yakubu Bawa, who spoke to The Epoch Times in his office in Jos. “Nigeria is fast becoming a hostile environment for press freedom,” Bawa said. “That this is…