The United Nations Human Rights Council sparked outrage on Wednesday when it announced that two of the seven experts elected to its advisory committee were from Iran and China. Hillel Neuer, Executive ...

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders Mary Lawlor on Monday called on the Chinese authorities to uphold the rights of human rights defenders who have been imprisoned. Lawlor said she was ...

Chinese authorities have formally charged well-known journalist and author Du Bin (杜斌) with “picking quarrels and provoking ...

Geneva [Switzerland]: The latest Annual Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and accompanying reports from the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General have ...

A collection of U.S. reports on human rights offenses trimmed or omitted past language on violations in El Salvador, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E. and Israel, all seen as partners by President ...

Amnesty International, in a report released on Wednesday, revealed that Chinese courts are utilizing ambiguous laws to crack down on civilians’ freedoms of speech and association, subjecting ...

Sweden’s Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard will visit China this week “to promote Swedish priorities regarding economics, trade and security policy.” Unfortunately, the announcement makes no ...