Uighurs and rights advocates on Tuesday decried lame global action over a damning 2022 UN report detailing torture and sweeping abuses in China’s Xinjiang region. Members of China’s Uighur minority joined non-governmental organizations on the sidelines of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, to urge UN High Commissioner (read more…)
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China’s national online ID service went into affect earlier this month, promising to increase user privacy by reducing the amount of data collected by private-sector companies, but privacy and digital rights activists continued to criticize the measures as increasing government control over citizens’ online lives.
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China has officially launched internet identification requirements that rights groups have warned will further curtail online anonymity and increase the risks for freedom of speech in what is already one of the world’s strictest online censorship and surveillance systems.
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TOKYO — In the decade since China’s widespread crackdown on human rights lawyers and advocates, Beijing has enhanced the national security apparatus to further suppress civil society.
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According to anonymous sources, the dissident who publicly challenged “dictator Xi Jinping” in October 2022 and inspired the “blank paper” protest against the zero-COVID policy has been tried and convicted. Human rights groups are calling on Beijing to disclose his whereabouts and provide details about his trial. The case comes (read more…)
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In 2015, a nationwide campaign rounded up hundreds of rights advocates. Since then, suppression has become more systematic and less visible, lawyers say
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Hong Kong (CNN) — China has mastered the craft of policing the internet, operating one of the world’s most extensive online censorship and surveillance regimes. With mandatory identity checks on every online platform, it has become almost impossible for users to stay anonymous.
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Thirty years ago today, Chinese authorities disappeared a six-year-old Tibetan boy and his family. They haven’t been heard from since – but the impunity enjoyed by the Chinese government continues to fuel threats to religious freedom, collective punishment, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detention.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney faces a host of urgent and challenging policy issues. The first is trade with the United States, and support for sectors of the Canadian economy affected by tariffs. But the prime minister is also a person of empathy and values, and those are expected to be (read more…)
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(New York) – Hong Kong authorities’ unjust arrests of the father and brother of the prominent US-based activist Anna Kwok is an escalation of the Chinese government’s use of cross-border repression, 87 international and diaspora rights groups, including Human Rights Watch, said today in two joint statements.
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Beijing-backed “GONGOs” have transformed the Palais des Nations into a hostile environment for critics of President Xi Jinping. In the “capital of peace,” the palatial grounds of the United Nations Office at Geneva were meant to embody the 20th-century ideal of a postwar world — when countries might seek to (read more…)
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🧠🎙️ Every face here brought insight, knowledge, expertise, and perspective. 📌Here’s a look at the brilliant minds who joined Communicating International Security over the past year — professionals, thinkers, and storytellers who helped us navigate a fast-changing world.
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