(SHI YU / CHINA DAILY) Nearly 60 years have elapsed since Martin Luther King Jr. made the iconic and one of the most powerful speeches in the history of civil liberties and human rights movements. "I have a dream…" is a touching speech, a powerful protest against racial discrimination, yet his grandchildren are still judged […]
Richelda Extremadura (right) executive director of Lila Pilipina, an organization of former comfort women and their supporters, assists alleged Filipino "comfort women" as they display Origami paper cranes to symbolize peace during a forum to demand justice, compensation and apology from the Japanese government for their war crimes, Jan 22, 2016 at suburban Quezon city, […]
Photo taken on Aug 16, 2022 shows the White House in Washington, DC, the United States. (PHOTO / XINHUA) SEOUL – The White House on Tuesday nominated a special envoy for human rights in the Democratic Prople's Republic of Korea, moving to fill a post that has been empty since 2017. President Joe Biden nominated […]
Afghan students walk toward their university in Kabul, Afghanistan on Feb 26, 2022. (HUSSEIN MALLA / AP) KABUL – UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed expressed alarm to Taliban officials in Kandahar over violations of women's rights in Afghanistan, the United Nations said on Friday after she made a rare visit to the Taliban's southern heartland. […]
An Afghan woman and a girl walk in a street in Kabul, Afghanistan on Nov 9, 2022. (ALI KHARA / REUTERS) KABUL – The United Nations deputy secretary-general discussed women's rights with Afghanistan's acting foreign minister on Wednesday after the Taliban authorities banned most female aid workers and stopped women and girls from attending high […]
The National People’s Congress Standing Committee’s interpretation of the National Security Law for Hong Kong will not jeopardize Hong Kong’s judicial independence and should not affect the city’s rule of law. More important, it does not have any adverse effect on the special administrative region’s much valued protection of human rights. Wikipedia is a […]
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JAKARTA, Dec 19, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Indonesia clarifies that the New Criminal Code was drafted carefully and obeys Human Rights aspects, following the emergence of reactions related to the ratification of the code. Deputy Minister of Law and Human Rights Edward Omar Sharif Hiariej on Friday stated the criminal code was […]
The United States is fond of portraying itself as a champion of human rights and pointing an accusing finger at what it alleges are human rights abuses in countries that are in its bad books. Thus it will have surprised few, if any, that US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns issued a statement on Saturday, […]
Dec 10 is Human Rights Day, which this year marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The 1948 Declaration was one of the first major achievements of the newly-formed United Nations. Key elements have since been adopted and incorporated into many other UN treaties and into national constitutions. It identifies […]
In this file photo taken on March 1, 2021, the Iranian national flag is seen outside the International Atomic Energy Agency headquarters during the agency's Board of Governors meeting in Vienna. (JOE KLAMAR / AFP) TEHRAN – The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned the German ambassador for the third time in the past four […]
In this photo released on Aug 11, 2022 by the Iranian foreign ministry, ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani speaks in Tehran, Iran. (IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY VIA AP) TEHRAN — The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday that Tehran will not cooperate with the "political" fact-finding mission proposed by a recent United Nations Human Rights Council […]
FIFA President Gianni Infantino was spot on when he slammed Western countries for "hypocrisy" for trying to give "moral lessons" to other nations. A Swiss Italian, Infantino said on Saturday that "for what we Europeans have been doing around the world in the last 3,000 years, we should be apologizing for the next 3,000 years […]
A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a mobile vaccine clinic bus at the Grand Bazaar of Tehran, Iran on Jan 22, 2022. (VAHID SALEMI / AP) KUALA LUMPUR / SINGAPORE / TEHRAN – A top Iranian human rights official on Sunday blamed US sanctions that deny Iranians access to essential medicines for thousands of […]
According to Joseph Nye, the soft power of a country rests primarily on three resources: its culture, its political values, and its foreign policies (Joseph Nye, Is the American Century Over? (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2015), p 59). Portraying itself as a defender of global human rights and pretending to promote human rights at home and […]
That more than 60 countries at the Third Committee of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly in a joint statement on Oct 31 expressed opposition to interference in China's internal affairs under the pretext of human rights speaks volumes about how the big stick policy of the United States and some other […]
An Israeli flag flies in a street in front of the Ibrahimi Mosque or the Tomb of the patriarchs, in the West Bank town of Hebron, on May 26, 2022. (HAZEM BADER / AFP) GENEVA – A Palestinian human rights group told a UN panel on Monday it had been subject to threats and "mafia […]
UN body made correct decision in nixing US-led bid for debate on China’s Muslim minorities A United States-led proposal to discuss alleged atrocities against Uygurs and other Muslim minority groups in China was rejected by the United Nations’ highest human rights committee earlier this month. Some have criticized the ruling, but I feel the UN […]
Job seekers consult employers at a career fair for disabled people in Cangzhou, Hebei province, in May, 2022. (FU XINCHUN / FOR CHINA DAILY) Ten years ago, the Asia-Pacific region came together and designed the world's first set of disability-specific development goals: the Incheon Strategy to "Make the Right Real" for Persons with Disabilities in […]
A view of the skyline of Manama, capital of Bahrain, at night Oct 20, 2010. (HAMAD I MOHAMMED / REUTERS) GENEVA – Bahrain will no longer run in an election to the UN's top human rights body later this month, a UN website showed. A UN site showed that Bahrain withdrew its candidacy on Sept 26 […]
GENEVA – A United Nations committee found on Friday that Australia had violated the human rights of a group of islanders off its north coast by failing to adequately protect them from the impacts of climate change. The complaint, filed over three years ago by eight Torres Strait Islanders and their children, is one of […]
GENEVA – A United Nations committee found on Friday that Australia had violated the human rights of a group of islanders off its north coast by failing to adequately protect them from the impacts of climate change. The complaint, filed over three years ago by eight Torres Strait Islanders and their children, is one of […]
The 46-page report recently released by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) on the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region of China claims that the authorities’ measures to counter terrorism and extremism in the region “may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity”. We must take such an allegation with […]
The latest 2021/22 Human Development Report was recently released. Titled “Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives: Shaping our Future in a Transforming World,” it “paints a picture of a global society lurching from crisis to crisis, and which risks heading towards increasing deprivation and injustice.” This is a big shock to those of us who aspire for […]
‘May” is such a wonderful word in the English language. It can support perhaps the deadliest of accusations but can simply be justified by “Hey! I said ‘may’, didn’t I?” As someone brought up with a lawyer’s training, I think I would probably throw up if a judge were to say to me, “Your client […]
The report on human rights conditions in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, released by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights last week, is nothing but an "illegal document" and "a perverse product of the United States and some other Western forces' coercive diplomacy", as the spokesperson for the Permanent Mission […]
Elizabeth Salmon, the UN special rapporteur for human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, listens to the Republic of Korea’s Unification Minister Kwon Youngse during their meeting at the Government Complex in Seoul, on Sept 2, 2022. (AHN YOUNG-JOON / AP) SEOUL – The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea's foreign ministry criticized a […]
Recent court proceedings confirm that many rioters involved in the 2019 turmoil are just young students. Over the years, many youngsters have been radicalized by, among others, vocal lawyers. They were told that unlawful violence can sometimes “solve problems”, or make life “colorful”. Many others, including law lecturers and teachers, have helped disable the law […]
Elites, intellectuals and historians from the Middle East describe their region as a geopolitical theater where the United States has committed innumerable human rights crimes. The region, to be sure, has witnessed the highest number of violations against humanity and human rights. The US has not only committed a series of crimes against children and […]