Category: human rights

Programming Alert: Documentary ‘Canaries in a Cold War’

The documentary “Canaries in a Cold War” will be released on NTD Television Sunday, Feb. 20, at 1:30 p.m., and re-run Saturday, Feb. 26, at 5:00 p.m. It will also be available on-demand on EpochTV starting Wednesday, Feb. 9. At the beginning of 2021, singer-songwriter and human rights activist James H. White set out for…


UN Neglecting China’s Human Rights Abuses Due to Beijing’s Influence: Whistleblower

The United Nations (UN) is neglecting the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) human rights abuses, due to Beijing’s diplomatic and financial influence over the global body, according to whistleblower Emma Reilly. “There is an actual policy that the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the secretary general and various other senior officials, do not meet … with…


On ESPN, Professor Equates China Genocide to Sports Injuries

News Analysis Is there a genocide going on in the United States? I don’t think so. But on Feb. 4, a professor from Northwestern University compared the genocide against the Uyghurs in China to sports injuries in the United States. In the Xinjiang region of China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has subjected Uyghurs and…


Conflicting Government Statements on Trafficking Victim Ignite Outrage in China

Conflicting government rhetoric failed to abate a snowballing outcry on the Chinese internet about a mentally-ill mother of eight shackled in a hut for twenty-some years. Days before the start of the Beijing Winter Olympics, a video of a woman living in spine-chilling conditions appeared almost ubiquitously on the newsfeed of Chinese internet users. The…


Beijing Tries to Flip the Script on Oppression

News Analysis How has Beijing responded to U.S. pronouncements that it stands with its athletes and their freedom of speech? Expectedly, it answered according to a time-tested two-part strategy from the authoritarian handbook: totally deny all allegations and instead assert that all of those under regime control love the government and are living in perfect…


Is the UN Helping China Hide Its Crimes?

Commentary In 1945, shortly after the Second World War, the United Nations (U.N.) was established. According to its website, the intergovernmental organization was created to develop “friendly relations among nations, and promote “social progress, better living standards and human rights.” In reality, though, the U.N. appears to be inherently corrupt. In 2005, as The Economist…


Most Australian Companies Failing to Identify and Address Modern Slavery Risks: Report

A new report has found that companies in Australia are failing to identify or address modern slavery and labour exploitation in their supply chains and called for the strengthening of Australia’s modern slavery laws. The Modern Slavery Act, which entered into force on Jan. 1, 2019, established a modern slavery reporting requirement for large businesses and…


Human Rights Groups March Across Golden Gate Bridge to Boycott Beijing Olympics

SAN FRANCISCO—Thirteen human rights groups crossed the Golden Gate Bridge and went to the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco on Feb. 4 to express opposition to holding the 2022 Winter Olympics in China. The groups told NTD Television that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has a long track record of human rights abuses. “Today, we’re…


Big Business Still in China

News Analysis Despite a growing outcry in democracies over the threat to human rights and international stability from China, and Beijing’s genocide against Uyghurs and other religious groups, major Western corporations continue to do business in the country, including with the military and police. Some of that business could be in violation of a new…


Epoch Times Reporter Released on Bail From Nigerian Prison

Luka Binniyat, whose reporting of massacres in Kaduna State provoked the ire of authorities, has been released on bail after enduring nearly three months in a Nigerian prison. Binniyat told The Epoch Times he will face prosecutors on Feb. 28 on the charge of cyberstalking, which legal experts have called controversial. “The conditions in the…