Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says her party remains undecided on whether it will support or deny the Act party's motion to vote on if the abuse of the Uyghur minority in China amounts to genocide. Act last week filed notice of a motion that would ask MPs to vote on whether human rights...
After German federal elections in September, Europe’s largest economy is likely to be led either by a human rights champion sending steely messages to Russia and China, or a dovish politician who wants Vladimir Putin to be given more respect. Surprisingly, the former hails from a Green party...
It is widely known that China has been running a Soviet-style program to suppress religious freedom for years. But last month, we received irrefutable evidence of a threat that human rights advocates have long feared: China’s censorship efforts targeting religion and surveillance programs...
Ankara [Turkey], May 2 (ANI): Xinjiang Authorities have detained an ethnic Uyghur couple as they have witnessed human rights abuses in the region, according to their daughter. Yahya Kurban, an ethnic Uyghur from Kargilik county, in Xinjiang's Kashgar prefecture, emigrated to Turkey with his...
The position of Canada and its western allies on the Uyghur genocide is clear. The European Union, United Kingdom, United States, and Canada have not only condemned China for their repression of Uyghur Muslims, but have also imposed active sanctions on China. In recent years, major media...
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Piles of garbage, discarded debris and abandoned buildings are scattered across a post-industrial area on the left bank of the Danube River, just south of the grandiose downtown of Hungary’s capital, Budapest. The area has been unused for decades, languishing in...