Editor's Note: The United Nations Human Rights Council began the 45th session of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva, Switzerland, this week. On Wednesday, several Chinese scholars discussed the issue of Chinese modernization and human rights protection during a side event of the session...More

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday announced new sanctions against two Chinese officials for "serious human rights abuses" against Uygurs in Xinjiang, as the US also moved to block imports from three additional Chinese companies due to allegations of forced labor. Chinese embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu said...More

During a seminar held by the China Society for Human Rights Studies on Monday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the society's president Padma Choling highlighted China's role as a contributor, advocator and practitioner of the declaration over the years. While some...More

The China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS) on Tuesday released a report, revealing a series of crimes committed by the US in the Middle East and surrounding areas that have seriously violated the basic human rights of people and caused permanent damage and irreparable losses to countries...More

Editor's Note: Inmates in prisons are subject to labor exploitation, minors working as child laborers are abused, and human trafficking remains rampant: Today, more than 150 years after the abolition of slavery in the US, the above-mentioned problems still exist in the country. Some American politicians have racked...More

"China has launched another furious attack on Australia's human rights record," Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported after Australia's third Universal Periodic Review took place at the 47th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. In fact, Russia, Nepal, Syria, the Marshall Islands, and the UN Refugee Agency...More

The Washington Post on Saturday covered the story of a 12-year-old girl, an Alaska native student, whose remains was buried more than 100 years ago in Pennsylvania. She was among more than 100,000 indigenous children distributed to around 375 boarding schools throughout the US from the late 1800s...More

As the 47th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council is scheduled to be held in Geneva on Monday, the Global Times learned that Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and some other Western countries have worked to misuse the UN platform to bring topics on...More

The Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation in Canada, a home community of the Kamloops Indian Residential School where the remains of 215 children buried at the site have been uncovered, confirmed on Thursday that some children were as young as three years old. "This is a tragedy of...More

Recently some Western countries have been insisting that the “north Korean human rights issue” should be treated by the United Nations Security Council. In retrospect, the UNSC discussed the DPRK’s “human rights issue” and passed “human rights resolutions” against it every year from 2014. However, since 2018 it...More

Cheer of excitement and joy erupted from the crowds gathered outside the Government Center in downtown Minneapolis, when the judge read out the verdict from the jury, finding that Derek Chauvin, the police officer who killed George Floyd with his knees, was guilty of murder and manslaughter. Celebration...More

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Several opposition groups have announced their withdrawal from the Civil Human Rights Front in the past few days after foreign media quoted sources as saying that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government is investigating whether the Civil Human Rights Front has violated the national security law for...More

It is evident that US Democratic President Joe Biden and his team will pay more attention to the human rights agenda in foreign policy than their Republican predecessors did. It is also clear that Washington will actively use this agenda in dealing with its main geopolitical adversaries -...More

US-led coalition forces entered Afghanistan with the narrative of the "war on terror" following the September 11 attacks in New York City in2001. Since then, this nearly two decades old conflict has had a devastating impact on the lives of Afghan civilians. They have bore the brunt of...More