Human rights
- Asia Pacific, China, Donald Trump, Human rights, Jimmy Lai, US news, US politics, World news, Xi Jinping
Trump’s lack of focus on human rights in China is big departure for US diplomacy
Change reflects both transformation of US in Trump era and China’s increasing confidence on world stageAsked b…
- Asia Pacific, China, Europe, Freedom of speech, Germany, Hong Kong, Human rights, Jimmy Lai, Law, Media, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, Press freedom, World news
Jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai wins free speech award in Germany
Media tycoon honoured in absentia as critics decry his 20-year sentence under national security lawThe jailed …
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Number of executions in North Korea rose dramatically during Covid – report
Regime used its isolation after closing borders to escalate killings when global scrutiny disappeared, NGO cla…
- Conflict and arms, Global development, Human rights, Menstruation, Myanmar, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Myanmar military regime widens sanitary towel ban, claiming rebels use them for first aid
Activists say clamp down on period products to target insurgents is gender-based violence and violates rightsM…
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Norway’s state telecoms firm accused of helping Myanmar regime seize activists
Lawsuit in Norway alleges Telenor passed on data helping Myanmar military arrest 1,200 activists, some in safe…
- Aid, Bangladesh, Food security, Global development, Global education, Global health, Human rights, Myanmar, Refugees, Rohingya, South and Central Asia, World news
In the Rohingya refugee camps, we really want you to keep the gas running | Ajas Khan
Aid cuts mean the ethnically-cleansed refugees from Myanmar face a return to cooking over toxic flames, or kee…
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My year in solitary confinement has not broken me. My peaceful fight for Baloch rights in Pakistan goes on | Mahrang Baloch
No home in Balochistan is safe and enforced disappearances are widespread. Detaining me and other rights activ…
- Art and design, Asia Pacific, China, Culture, Human rights, Mao Zedong, Sculpture, US news, World news
US-based dissident artist put on trial in China over satirical Mao sculptures, says rights group
New York-based Gao Zhen was detained in 2024 during a family visit to China and then tried for ‘defaming natio…
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‘They can reach me wherever’: China using financial tactics to coerce people who flee, says report
UK urged to tackle transnational repression, as dissidents say Beijing has targeted them with tax bills and ot…
- Business, Employment, Global development, Global health, Human rights, Pakistan, South and Central Asia, Workers' rights, World news
‘The whole country is doing it’: how illegal kidney traders target Pakistan’s desperate brick kiln workers
Enslaved by debt, victims often feel compelled to sell an organ to repay loans – but can find themselves even …
- Afghanistan, Classical music, Culture, Folk music, Human rights, Islam, Law, Middle East and North Africa, Music, Religion, South and Central Asia, Taliban, World news
The Taliban are burning musical instruments in the name of morality. It is an assault on all culture
The sounds of Afghan history are being erased to prevent music’s ‘moral corruption’ of the Afghan people. We c…
- Bangladesh, Children, Global development, Global education, Human rights, Sex trafficking, Sex work, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
‘Invisible’ children born in the brothels of Bangladesh finally get birth certificates
Destined to a perilous life with no right to an education or to vote, state recognition ‘gives them hope’, cam…
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Chinese technology underpins Iran’s internet control, report finds
The technologies include facial recognition tools used on Uyghurs in western China, say expertsIran’s architec…
- Art and design, Child marriage, Global development, Human rights, India, Photography, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Women behind the lens: ‘I met 14-year-old Arti a day before her wedding. Her suicide six years later hit home’
Despite being illegal, child marriage is still common in much of India. Saumya Khandelwal, a photojournalist, …
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Living hell of North Korea’s ‘paradise on Earth’ scheme back in spotlight in Japan
Plaintiffs in case say they were lured from Japan, exploited for labour and cut off from families for generati…