Liu Xiaobo and the Future of China
Liu Xiaobo died on July 13, 2017, a victim of intolerance by a fearful Chinese government that imprisoned him for his leadership role in writing and organizing Charter 08. That… Read more »
Category: Human rights
North Korea diplomacy ‘may come at cost of human rights’
Will diplomacy with North Korea come at the cost to human rights? The Committee of Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), a non-governmental organization based in Washington, DC, set up… Read more »
China: When the Law Meets the Party
Like an army defeated but undestroyed, China’s decades-long human rights movement keeps reassembling its lines after each disastrous loss, miraculously fielding new forces in the battle against an illiberal state…. Read more »
Democracy in Iran: Why It Failed, How It Might Succeed
How resilient is the Islamic Republic of Iran? asks analyst Eric Lob. The answer to this question is that the future survival of the Islamic republic is tenuous at best… Read more »
Protect civil society to promote stability in Egypt
As long as Egypt’s government continues to suppress peaceful dissent and stifle pluralism, it is part of the problem of growing instability, not part of the solution, says a new… Read more »
A Venezuela formula to punish Maduro, help the people
A US subsidiary of Venezuela’s PDVSA that has been used as collateral for a Russian loan has emerged as a stumbling block to Washington’s moves to impose additional sanctions on… Read more »
Human rights a casualty of Philippines’ ‘war on drugs’
President Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial campaign against illegal drugs in the Philippines will be the subject of a hearing at the U.S. Congress this week. The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission… Read more »
Where are the bodies buried in North Korea? Regime conducts public executions for theft, watching S Korea media
Efforts to hold the Kim regime accountable for decades of brutality against North Korea’s people have so far amounted to little, but that isn’t stopping human rights activists from trying… Read more »
Online and On All Fronts: Russia’s assault on opposition ‘reaching new heights’
Russia has introduced significant restrictions to online speech and invasive surveillance of online activity and prosecutes critics under the guise of fighting extremism, Human Rights Watch said in a report released… Read more »
Liu Xiaobo ‘will be proven right in the end’: death exposes Western kowtowing to China
It came as little surprise when, after the death of the dissident Liu Xiaobo last week, China’s vast army of censors kicked into overdrive as they scrubbed away the outpouring of… Read more »