Human Rights

News 03/31/21, 10:41

U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Tuesday, March 31, that the Biden administration's "human rights" foreign policy will put focus on abortion distancing itself from the concept left by the Trump administration whose focus was on religious freedoms and fundamental values such as life. In the release of the 2020 ...

U.S. 03/19/21, 10:16

Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro previously said that the border crisis should be laid at President Trump's feet. Castro said on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that the surge of unaccompanied children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border was a “challenge ” Biden is managing after former President Donald Trump left the ...

China 01/11/21, 12:39

China Daily, one of the Chinese Communist Party's propagandists, published an article titled Eradication of extremism has given Xinjiang women more autonomy in which it attempts to disguise the forced sterilization of Uighur women as a process that achieved "gender equality and reproductive health" for Uighur women. The article states, “In ...

China 10/26/20, 15:59

On Sunday, October 25, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, to protest the arbitrary detention of 12 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists by Chinese regime authorities as they attempted to flee to Taiwan last August. Reuters reported that the protests were presented as a global campaign in support ...

China 10/26/20, 04:42

A northern Californian advocacy wants the nation's highest court to use every legal avenue to stop American-owned enterprises that profit from helping international human rights abusers. Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court to urge the judicial authority to hold businesses accountable if they ...

New York 06/22/20, 04:51

A past ailment that attacks the liver and causes inflammation allegedly saved a New Yorker from having organs carved up and sold to wealthy Chinese and overseas patients. Jennifer Zeng believes she could have become a victim of forced organ harvesting, if she had failed to declare to a Chinese doctor ...

Politics 06/18/20, 06:14

President Donald Trump on Wednesday, June 17, signed a bill seeking to sanction Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials responsible for the persecution of Uighurs and other minority groups. “Today, I have signed into law S. 3744, the Uighur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020, President Trump said in a statement. “The ...

D.C. 05/28/20, 04:39

A controversial emergency measure gave representatives the unprecedented ability to vote on behalf of others who could not attend Congress. House Democrats took advantage of the new proxy voting scheme, which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) introduced to allow 74 party members to nominate a colleague who votes on their behalf ...

China 03/12/20, 12:26

Although Hong Kong was granted a high degree of autonomy in 1984 under the "one country, two systems" framework agreed on between Britain and the Chinese communist regime, this autonomy deteriorated and human rights violations increased. The U.S. State Department reported police brutality, unjustified arrests, censorship of free speech, and a ...

China 01/23/20, 09:17

A University of Minnesota student was arrested in China and sentenced to six months in prison for a series of tweets he posted while in the United States, according to a Chinese court document, reviewed by the Axios website. Some of the detained student's tweets contained cartoon images and text that ...

China 01/22/20, 12:26

A new alliance of pro-democracy groups supporting human rights in Hong Kong is calling on the Canadian government to take legal action and other measures against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), reported the Vancouver Sun. At a press conference on Tuesday, Jan. 21, the Alliance Canada Hong Kong (ACHK) shared a ...

China 01/06/20, 20:49

Trade officials from both the U.S. and China are preparing to sign a partial trade deal next week, which will put an end to trade tensions between the two countries, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is hoping the agreement will not stand in the way of U.S. criticism of human ...

China 12/31/19, 07:20

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) on Dec. 28 strongly criticized Chinese leader Xi Jinping after the communist leader was granted a new title of "people's leader," which echos the notorious dictator Mao Zedong. The Wall Street Journal on the same day reported that the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party had labeled ...

U.S. 12/27/19, 07:47

China is about to set a dangerous precedent. They plan to change the word of God, twisting words and meanings to suit their communist ideals. In a crackdown on religion in the country, the government is going to rewrite the Bible and Quran and other religious texts. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ...

China 12/04/19, 14:17

Beijing fired back fiercely at the House passage of Uighur human rights bill and threatened to retaliate, reported South China Morning Post. The House on Tuesday, Dec. 3, passed the legislation in an overwhelming 407-1 vote, calling for the Trump administration to sanction Chinese officials over human rights violations and ban ...

World 11/12/19, 13:42

Shocking videos showing the brutality with which Hong Kong police are repressing pro-democracy demonstrations are going viral on social networks giving visibility to the massive civil rights movement occupying the streets of the city since this summer. Protests began in earnest in June following the announcement of a bill that would ...

World 10/09/19, 06:21

The United States has imposed visa restrictions on Chinese officials involved in a massive crackdown against Uighurs and other Muslim minorities. The State Department stated it would not issue visas to Chinese government and Communist Party officials believed to be responsible for or complicit in mass detentions and abuses in western ...

Business 10/08/19, 04:06

President Donald Trump’s administration has added 28 Chinese organizations to a blacklist over their role in human rights abuses, blocking them from doing business with American companies. The blacklist, so-called Entity List, identifies organizations reasonably believed to be involved, or to pose a significant risk of being or becoming involved, in ...

World 09/30/19, 17:14

There is now Irrefutable evidence the Chinese government is murdering spiritual followers of Falun Gong and other prisoners of conscience for their organs. It was presented at the United Nations in Geneva on Sept. 24. Findings from the final independent China Tribunal in June were presented by international human rights lawyer ...

World 09/25/19, 16:25

Dozens of believers asked the leaders gathered at the United Nations Assembly to put an end to what is possibly the greatest genocide of our time. A hundred people in yellow T-shirts gathered near UN headquarters to call for an end to the massive covert persecution of Falun Dafa in China, ...