On 14 May the US Senate approved a bill titled ‘Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020’ which condemns the Chinese Communist Party for forcibly detaining more than 2 million ethnic Muslims – mainly Uyghurs and Kazakhs – in camps in the region of Xinjiang. The House will now have to vote on the Senate bill before it can become law. If the law is passed, the US government will...
On 14 May the US Senate approved a bill titled ‘Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020’ which condemns the Chinese Communist Party for forcibly detaining more than 2 million ethnic Muslims...
Vietnamese police attacked Khmer Krom farmers last week to prevent them from working on farmland in the southern Mekong Delta. Witnesses claimed that 10 farmers where injured due to excessive police violence,...
The US Senate is planning to bring forward legislation that would impose sanctions on Chinese officials over human rights abuses against the Uyghur minority in China’s Xinjiang region. Senate leaders...
Despite constituting only 11% of the population on the Crimean peninsula, Crimean Tatars are significantly over-represented in arrest and imprisonment figures in Russian-occupied Crimea. According to some...
Former Tibetan political activist Choekyi died at his home in China’s Sichuan province after the authorities repeatedly denied him medial treatment after harsh treatment in prison. Choukyi was arrested...
The Christian minority in Laos remains subject to harassment and discrimination by local officials, in spite of an updated law protecting religious freedoms. In Luang Prabang province, religious rights...
Large brands in the UK, such as H&M, Uniqlo, Muji and IKEA have been named in a document submitted to the British government last week setting out the legal case for the country’s customs...
A widely celebrated festival of the Jumma peoples in the Chittagong Hill Tracts has been postponed to avoid the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Thousands of Jumma workers in other parts of Bangladesh...
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