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Chinese Authorities Shutter Schools in Eastern Tibet
Click to expand Image A security guard outside the Shangri-La Key School in Kardze prefecture, Sichuan province, China, September 5, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Andy Wong The Chinese authorities, as part of their suppression of Tibetans’ basic rights, have...
China: Travel for Uyghurs Heavily Restricted
Click to expand Image A Chinese police officer for border inspection on duty at the Khunjerab Pass in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, January 2, 2025. © 2025 Hu Huhu/Xinhua via Getty Images (New York) – The Chinese government is maintaining severe...
Thailand: Don’t Send Uyghurs to China
Click to expand Image Detainees behind cell bars at the police Immigration Detention Center in Bangkok, Thailand, January 21, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit (Bangkok) – A group of 48 Uyghur men who have been held for over...
Hong Kong: 45 Democracy Advocates Harshly Sentenced
Click to expand Image Elsa Wu, foster mother of activist Hendrick Lui, was taken into a police van outside the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts building after the sentencing of 45 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, November 19, 2024. ©...
Holy See: Agreement with China Should Promote Rights
Click to expand Image St. Joseph's Church, also known as Wangfujing Catholic Church, in Beijing, China, October 22, 2020. © 2020 Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images (Rome) – The Vatican’s renewal of its 2018 agreement with the Chinese government should be...
Australia: Promote Global Response to China’s Rights Abuses
Click to expand Image A guard stands in a tower on the perimeter of the Number 3 Detention Center in Dabancheng in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on April 23, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein (Sydney) – The Australian...
UN, African Union Should Take Bold Action to Protect Sudanese Civilians
Click to expand Image Makeshift shelters for Sudanese refugees who have fled from Darfur, Sudan to Borota, Chad. © 2023 Zohra Bensemra/Reuters United Nations and African Union member states should begin planning the deployment of a mission to protect civilians in Sudan,...
China: Free Unjustly Convicted Uyghur Filmmaker
Click to expand Image Uyghur filmmaker Ikram Nurmehmet. © Private (New York) –The Chinese authorities should immediately release the Uyghur filmmaker and director Ikram Nurmehmet, who was sentenced to six and a half years in prison after being convicted on...
China: Free ‘Bridge Man’ Protester
Click to expand Image Workers are seen at the Sitong Bridge in Beijing on October 14, 2022, where protest banners with slogans criticizing the Communist Party's policies were hanged the day before. © 2022 Noel CelisAFP via Getty Images...
Japan: Chinese Authorities Harass Critics Abroad
Click to expand Image Protesters rally in Tokyo to support the victims of a recent fire in Urumqi, the capital of China's Xinjiang region, November 30, 2022. © 2022 Hiro Komae/AP Photo (Tokyo) – Chinese authorities are seeking to intimidate...
Hong Kong: Academic Freedom Declines Under Security Law
Click to expand Image City University students pushed away physical barriers to leave Post-it notes on the “Democracy Wall,” February 2022. © 2022 Inmedia Academic freedom in Hong Kong has severely declined since the Chinese government imposed the draconian...
China: Free Uyghur Economist Ilham Tohti From Life Sentence
Click to expand Image Economist Ilham Tohti, from China's predominantly Muslim Xinjiang region, speaks to students at the Central Nationalities University in Beijing, China, December 1, 2009. © 2009 Elizabeth Dalziel/AP Photo (New York) – The Chinese government should quash the...
Australia: Strengthen Human Rights Sanctions Process
Click to expand Image Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong (L) and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during a meeting in Parliament House in Canberra, December 7, 2023. © 2023 Hilary Wardhaugh/AFP via Getty Images (Sydney) - The Australian...
UN: World Leaders Should Act to End Rights Crises
Click to expand Image United Nations Headquarters building in Manhattan, New York City, on December 21, 2021. © 2021 Sergi Reboredo / VWPics via AP Images (New York) – World leaders gathering for the United Nations General Assembly’s annual...
China: Free Taiwanese Political Activist
Click to expand Image Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, speaks at a press conference in Beijing, China, September 13, 2023. © 2023 Chen Yehua/Xinhua via Getty Images (New York) – The...
Sudan: Abusive Warring Parties Acquire New Weapons
Click to expand Image Sudanese armed forces with an unexploded one-way attack drone from the Rapid Support Forces recovered from an attack on a government building in Gedaref, Sudan, July 11, 2024. © 2024 Telegram (New York, September 9, 2024) –...
Include Disability in Planned Relocation Processes
Click to expand Image Local resident of Veivatuloa Village in Fiji looks out at seawater flooding around his home at high tide in July 16, 2022. © 2022 Loren Elliot/Reuters Last week, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres issued a global...
China: UN Needs to Address Crimes Against Humanity
Click to expand Image United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk speaks at the UN in Geneva, Switzerland, November 16, 2023. © 2023 Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP Photo (New York) – The Chinese government persists in committing...
New Ai Weiwei Rights-Inspired Limited Edition Lithographs
Click to expand Image © JRP|Editions (Geneva) – The renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has partnered with Human Rights Watch and the Swiss art publisher JRP|Editions on three series of limited edition lithographs that will be available in September...
Meaningful Follow-Up Needed as China’s UN Rights Review Concludes
Click to expand Image Members of the Muslim Uyghur minority present pictures of their relatives detained in China during a press conference in Istanbul, May 10, 2022. Turkey's Uyghur community urged United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle...
China: UN Should Act on Crimes Against Humanity
Click to expand Image United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk speaks at the UN in Geneva, Switzerland, November 16, 2023. © 2023 Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP Photo (Geneva) – The United Nations High Commissioner for...
China: Hundreds of Uyghur Village Names Change
.pb-video{ padding-bottom: 99.25%; } .data-table details { font-family: var(--font-sans); } Click to expand Image A signboard reads "Welcome to Hotan Unity New Village" in Hotan, Xinjiang, September 21, 2018. © 2018 Andy Wong/AP Photo (New York) – Chinese authorities in...
Hong Kong: No Accountability 5 Years after Mass Protests
Click to expand Image A protestor shows five demands gesture as Hong Kong people participate in their annual pro-democracy march in Hong Kong, January 1, 2020. The five demands include democratic elections for Hong Kong's leader and legislature and...
China: Closing Off Memory of Tiananmen Massacre
Click to expand Image Thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators protest in front of the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, May 17, 1989. © 1989 Sadayuki Mikami/AP Photo (New York) – The Chinese government is further suppressing any...
Tibet: Mass Relocations of Tibetans Not Voluntary
Click to expand Image A Chinese Communist Party deputy secretary of Gonjo county visits households to persuade them to agree to the proposed relocation of their village, in Sa-ngen, Tibet Autonomous Region, March 2024. © 2024 Gongjue Pioneers (贡觉先锋)...
China Forcibly Returns 60 Refugees to North Korea
Click to expand Image Photos of the North Korean refugees helped by the North Korea Refugees Human Rights Association of Korea are displayed in Seoul, South Korea on June 11, 2019. © 2019 Josh Smith/Reuters The Chinese government forcibly...
France: Macron Should Stand Firm on Rights in China
Click to expand Image French President Emmanuel Macron and China's President Xi Jinping during the official welcoming ceremony in Beijing on April 6, 2023. © 2023 Sipa via AP Images (Paris) – French President Emmanuel Macron should lay out...
German Chancellor’s Trip to China a Wasted Opportunity
Click to expand Image German Chancellor Olaf Scholz sits opposite of Chinese President Xi Jinping during talks at the State Guest House in Beijing, China, April 16, 2024. © 2024 Michael Kappeler/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo Germany's economy is very dependent on...
Germany: Scholz Should Stand Firm on Rights in China
Click to expand Image German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, November 4, 2022. © 2022 Kay Nietfeld/AP Photo (Berlin) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz should stress...
Hong Kong: New Security Law Full-Scale Assault on Rights
Click to expand Image A screen displays the vote count after the third reading of the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, March 19, 2024. © 2024 AP Photo/Louise Delmotte (New York) – The Beijing-controlled Legislative...