Tag: human rights

Beijing Olympics Win ‘Gold Medal for Repression’: Labor Report

An international trade union body has joined a long list of human-rights advocates challenging the appropriateness of Beijing hosting the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, which start in less than 100 days. “The sports of the Olympics have rules, but the Chinese Communist Party has shown that it has little or no respect for international laws…


Beijing’s Wolf Warrior Diplomacy Generates Negative Opinions in Sweden Toward Chinese Regime

Commentary While Sweden once was one of the most favorable nations toward China, relations have soured over the years, with the Chinese ambassador resigning from his post in September. A combination of Sweden’s support for human rights and a tough stance on China’s wolf warrior diplomacy has led to loss of favor with the Chinese…


Vancouver Groups Renew Call For Boycott of Beijing Olympics

Chinese-Canadian groups renewed their call this week for a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics on the occasion of the 100-day countdown to the top international sporting event in February. “The reason for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics is clear: It’s because the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] continues to do evil,” Ningyu Huang, co-ordinator of…


A Family Of Four Fled North Korea, Kim Jong-Un Ordered Arrest At All Costs

Recently, a family of four fled North Korea to China after dosing the border guards with sleeping pills. After learning the news, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un declared: “The defectors must be caught and punished no matter the cost!” According to The Chosun Ilbo, a South Korean daily newspaper, a family of four in North…


A Family of 4 Fled North Korea, Kim Jong-Un Ordered Arrest at All Costs

Recently, a family of four fled North Korea to China after dosing the border guards with sleeping pills. After learning the news, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un declared: “The defectors must be caught and punished no matter the cost!” According to The Chosun Ilbo, a South Korean daily newspaper, a family of four in North…


A ‘Blunt Attack’ on Human Rights: EU Lawmaker Urges Europe to Use Trade to Hold China Accountable for Organ Harvesting

The European Parliament needs to prioritize human rights over trade and confront the Chinese regime’s forced organ harvesting atrocities, a Dutch lawmaker said on Oct. 27. The last time the EU acted on the issue was in December 2013, when its legislative body adopted a resolution condemning the organ transplant abuse. Since then, however, “it…


United Nations Human Rights Council Paralyzed by Beijing’s Participation: Report

For over 70 years, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been the de facto standard of human rights for nations around the world. But the Chinese regime, in the pursuit of global dominance, is working hard to redefine human rights through the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), said a French military think tank…


Educating Students About the Victims of Communism

Commentary Many Americans today assume that the threat of Communism subsided with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But “We continue to see Communist and socialist regimes pop up and spread not only in Latin America—for example, in Venezuela and Nicaragua—but around the world,” says Ambassador Andrew Bremberg, president and CEO of the Victims…


‘They Will Monetize Everything’: Experts Highlight How Beijing Has Turned Rights Abuses Into an Industry

The Chinese Communist Party has become an expert in profiting off its human rights abuses, according to a former State Department official, who pointed to the regime commercializing slave labor—and even body parts from slain prisoners of conscience. Robert Destro, a former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, said that the…


‘They Will Monetize Everything’: Beijing Has Turned Rights Abuses Into an Industry, Experts Say

The Chinese Communist Party has become an expert in profiting off its human rights abuses, according to a former State Department official, who pointed to the regime’s commercializing of slave labor—and even body parts from slain prisoners of conscience. Robert Destro, a former assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor, said that…