On Saturday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet concluded her highly anticipated visit to Xinjiang. It had been hoped that Bachelet’s visit might provide some form of accountability for the millions of...
A recently leaked police database reviewed by AFP and AP identifies over 10,000 Uyghurs from a county in southwestern Xinjiang who have been detained on terrorism-related charges. The list, thus far the largest reported,...
While many look forward to relaxing during the December holiday season, the CCP typically leverages foreign distraction during this period to crack down on Chinese human rights defenders. Among those targeted in a recent wave of...
The Chinese government has moved to strip two human rights lawyers of their licenses to practice, following their involvement in legal cases against citizen journalist Zhang Zhan and the 12 Hong Kong activists caught fleeing the...
The United Nations General Assembly will vote next week for 15 seats on the U.N. Human Rights Council. The council consists of 47 countries, elected annually for staggered three-year terms. Members vie for seats within their...
The following is an excerpt of an article titled “China’s win-win at the UN Human Rights Council: Just not for human rights” by Andréa Worden. Read the full text of the article at Project Sinopsis. Before the Human...
U.S. president Donald Trump announced this week that he would suspend American funding to the World Health Organization while launching an investigation into its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. The WHO has come under fire...
More than 20 countries have issued a joint statement this week condemning China’s mass...
The following article has been republished from Project Sinopsis, with permission. It is also...
On March 14, 2014, lawyer and rights activist Cao Shunli died after being denied medical treatment...
Following reports of forced labor, political indoctrination, abuse, and deaths within Xinjiang’s...
Due to fear of economic retribution, Muslim countries have been largely silent on Xinjiang’s...
In Geneva on Tuesday, China faced its third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on human rights. UN...
The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has issued a report that...
On Tuesday, the U.S. announced its withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council. Like...
The European Union delegation to China issued a statement on Friday ahead of International Human...
In recent years, China has faced repeated accusations of interfering with human rights work by and...
Human Rights Watch fears that Beijing-based poet and artist Liu Xia, the wife of deceased Nobel...
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