Category: Human Rights

The UN indicated Friday it was urging Thailand not to send dozens of detained Uyghurs to any country where they risk "significant" harm, after reported plans to deport them to China. Rights groups have warned that Bangkok is preparing to deport ...

Thai authorities denied Wednesday there was an immediate plan to send back to China 48 Uyghurs held in the country's detention centers after UN experts warned the group could face torture if they return. The Uyghurs fled China -- which has ...

By Marc Burleigh Authorities in Brazil said Friday they were probing Chinese auto giant BYD and one of its contractors for suspected "trafficking" of Chinese workers who were building a factory in the South American country.

A contractor for Chinese EV giant BYD denied on Thursday there were "slave-like conditions" in a Brazil factory, where local officials said they found evidence of forced labor. Local officials in Brazil's northeast Bahia state, where the BYD factory was being ...

Myanmar and China have the world's worst internet freedom, with declines reported in a number of other countries led by Kyrgyzstan, a study said Wednesday. The further deterioration in Myanmar, a Beijing ally where the military seized power in 2021, marks ...

Diplomats from China and the African Union met this week as part of a regular dialogue focused on human rights. Even though Monday's talks were premised on making "concrete recommendations to pressing human rights concerns in both regions," neither side made ...

A lot of EV consumers bought new battery-powered cars in the hope it would be better for the environment than a vehicle with a conventional internal combustion engine that runs on fossil fuels. By some measures, that's no doubt true.

Türkiye's intelligence agency detained six people suspected of spying on ethnic Uyghurs who have fled persecution in China, state media reports said Tuesday. A seventh person is wanted but remained at large, the reports said, without specifying the suspects' nationalities.

The UN Human Rights Council’s current hearing on China’s human rights record is exposing a global split. The Universal Periodic Review process happens once every 4.5 years for all member states. However, China’s turn has drawn particular attention, with numerous countries lining ...

The Chinese government is reportedly lobbying non-Western countries to support its human rights record as it faces a United Nations Human Rights Council review on Tuesday. Diplomats told Reuters that China’s mission to the UN in Geneva sent memos to counterparts ...

There's mounting concern in the U.S. and Europe that their global reputations, particularly in developing countries, will be among the latest casualties of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. In the Global South, anger is rising against ...

On November 16, 2023, an overcrowded wooden boat carrying around 250 Rohingyas attempted to land in the Indonesian province of Aceh. They were unwelcome, and locals turned the boat away. The Rohingyas are a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority group in Myanmar. Thousands are forced to risk ...