Tag: Human rights
Myanmar’s landmine legacy continues to destroy lives
Myanmar found is the only country where govt forces were found to have used antipersonnel landmines in the last year
Protests set for all week in Hong Kong’s business district
One protester said his advertising agency had closed for the week in solidarity with the pro-democracy movement
New phone owners in China need to have their faces scanned
Regulations seen as another way for the authorities to monitor the population
Leaked documents reveal China’s mass brainwashing’ camps
But Chinese officials call documents ‘fake news’
Make-up video with message on Persecution of Uyghurs goes viral
Clip has been watched more than 1.4 million times and "liked" nearly 500,000 times on Chinese social media app
Philippine groups rally against attacks on environmental defenders
Global Witness report has tagged the Philippines as the world’s most dangerous country for activists
Indonesia urged to drop treason charges against Papua activists
There’s no excuse for rounding people up and sending them to prison for peaceful acts of expression, rights group says
Simon Cheng lodges complaint over ‘China forced confession’ broadcast
CCTV showed the footage not long after Cheng spoke of being tortured while in detention for 15 days
Vietnam jails third activist this month in crackdown on Facebook posts
Vietnam has jailed a third activist this month for anti-government posts on social media platform Facebook, state media said on Nov. 28, handing him...
Church, rights activists up in arms over planned Uttar Pradesh anti-conversion...
Freedom of faith is the ‘mother of all human rights,’ activist says
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