03/10/2024

U.S. bans Chinese firms in Uyghur region as Beijing fights forced labor claims

The U.S. has added two new Chinese companies to a Xinjiang trade blacklist over forced labor accusations. The move comes just one week after Beijing retaliated […]
02/10/2024

China/Hong Kong: Amnesty International recognizes three activists as prisoners of conscience

Amnesty International today designated three prominent human rights defenders from Hong Kong and mainland China as prisoners of conscience. Human rights lawyers Chow Hang-tung and Ding […]
30/09/2024

US, EU demand China respond to human rights abuses in Xinjiang

The U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Council called on China on Tuesday to implement recommendations made by the U.N.’s human rights office in a […]
24/09/2024

Canada, Mexico Should Halt China Forced-Labor Imports, U.S. Lawmakers Say

A bipartisan group of legislators urges the country’s two neighbors to use U.S. law as a model to keep out imports that can be traced to China’s Xinjiang region
21/09/2024

China cracks down on Communist party officials for reading banned books

Hillary Clinton and Hannah Arendt thought to be among authors of books procured by officials, as Xi Jinping tightens grip on Communist party
18/09/2024

World leaders must act to end decade of injustice for jailed Uyghur academic

The international community must take concrete steps to help secure the release of the Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti, Amnesty International said ahead of the 10-year-anniversary of […]
27/08/2024

Two years after Xinjiang findings, UN reports ‘limited access to information’, ‘reprisals’ against activists

A spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, issued today a rare public statement on his Office’s work on China, marking two years since the release of its groundbreaking report on the grave human rights situation in the Uyghur region (Xinjiang).
31/07/2024

China sanctions US lawmaker for criticizing Beijing’s human rights record

Rep. Jim McGovern says he is unfazed by the measure and will wear it as a ‘badge of honor.’
19/07/2024

China rejects key Western calls for human-rights reforms at U.N. meeting

China on Thursday rejected Western-led recommendations for human-rights reforms including calls for greater freedoms in Hong Kong and for Uyghurs in Xinjiang, but accepted others from […]