Tag: human rights violations

UN Says Venezuelan Courts Are Involved in Human Rights Violations

By Antonio Maria Delgado From Miami Herald Venezuela’s justice system is exceedingly unjust, with its courts being used as a tool of repression used to arbitrarily jail activists and political opponents to the Nicolás Maduro regime while turning a blind eye to a growing number of human rights violations, a United Nations report said Thursday….


EU Slaps Sanctions on Nicaraguan First Lady, 7 Others

BRUSSELS—The European Union on Monday slapped sanctions on Nicaraguan first lady and Vice-President Rosario Murillo and seven other senior officials accused of serious human rights violations or undermining democracy, amid a crackdown on opposition politicians in the Central American country. EU headquarters said in a statement that the sanctions, which include asset freezes and bans…


China’s Useful Elitists: Westerners Exploited for Beijing’s Domestic Image

Early in February, the BBC broadcast interviews with several Uighur women who graphically described the horrific treatment they’d received while detained in one of the concentration camps where China has reportedly locked up a million or more ethnic Muslims for “vocational training” and “deradicalization.” China’s response was swift and predictable. It accused the BBC of…


Orange County Congresswoman Joins Committee to Oversee CCP’s Human Rights Violations 

An Orange County congresswoman has been tapped to help U.S. Congress keep tabs on China’s international human rights standards compliance. Rep. Michelle Steel (CA-48) was recently appointed to a commission that tallies the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) human rights abuses on its own citizens and people in other countries. “We really have to watch what China is doing,” Steel…


Two Liberal MPs Say They Will Vote to Recognize Uyghur Oppression as Genocide

Two Liberal MPs say they will be voting in favour of a motion put forward by the Conservatives to declare Beijing’s persecution of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in China a genocide.  In the House of Commons on Feb. 18, Liberal MP John McKay expressed his support for the motion. He said the Chinese regime’s…


Two Liberal MPs Say They Will Vote to Recognize Uyghur Oppression a Genocide

Two Liberal MPs say they will be voting in favour of a motion put forward by the Conservatives to declare Beijing’s persecution of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in China a genocide.  In the House of Commons on Feb. 18, Liberal MP John McKay expressed his support for the motion. He said the Chinese regime’s…


Tories Call on Government to Declare Chinese Regime’s Persecution of Uyghurs a Genocide

The Conservatives are calling on the federal government to officially declare Beijing’s persecution of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in China a genocide. Conservative Foreign Affairs Critic Michael Chong submitted a motion to the House of Commons Thursday calling on the Liberal government to take a stand against the Chinese Communist Party’s “absolutely no mercy”…