Human rights

"Achieving justice for 298 victims of the downing of Flight MH17 is and will remain the government's highest priority," said Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Stef Blok in a press release. "By taking this step today -- bringing a case before the ECtHR and thus supporting the applications of the next of kin as much as we can -- we are moving closer to this goal." … [Read more...] about Netherlands to bring Russia before European Court of Human Rights over downing of Flight MH17

Each year the United Nations Development programme assigns a theme in an attempt to shed light on a particular issue concerning the world and this year the theme is centred around the health and rights of women and girls. During the pandemic, with unemployment on the rise, women’s health and well-being are on the line, not just from the coronavirus but also from the increase in gender-based violence. … [Read more...] about World Population Day 2020: Raising awareness about the health and rights of women amid the coronavirus pandemic

If you accept that situation you don't require the judiciary, the criminal procedure law, the Indian Penal Code or even the Constitution of India because there is somebody who decides who gets to live and who gets to die. … [Read more...] about ‘Retired SC or HC judge must probe Vikas Dubey’s death’

WASHINGTON/BEIJING: The US has imposed sanctions and visa restrictions on three senior Chinese officials, including the regional boss of the ruling communist party, for alleged human rights abuses targeting Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and members of other minority groups in the restive Muslim-majority Xinjiang province. China is accused of mass detentions, religious persecution and forced sterilisation of Uyghurs and others in the resource-rich northwestern province. Authorities there are thought to have detained about a million people in re-education camps in recent years for "vocational training" to counter radicalism and separatism in Xinjiang. The three senior officials named by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a statement were: Chen Quanguo, the communist party secretary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and a member of the powerful Politburo; Zhu Hailun, party secretary of the Xinjiang political and legal committee; and Wang Mingshan, party secretary of the Xinjiang … [Read more...] about US sanctions Chinese officials over repression of minorities in Xinjiang; Beijing vows to retaliate

President Donald Trump has said he held off on imposing sanctions on Chinese officials over the mass incarceration of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang to protect US-China trade negotiations, according to an interview published on Sunday. Activists say China has rounded up at least one million Uighurs and other Turkic peoples and is trying to forcibly assimilate them by wiping out their culture and punishing basic Islamic practices. Beijing counters that it is running vocational educational centers that offer an alternative to Islamic extremism, but the issue has further shaken US-China ties, which were already troubled by a bitter trade dispute. When asked by news site Axios why he has held off on imposing direct US Treasury sanctions on Chinese officials linked to Xinjiang, Trump said: "Well, we were in the middle of a major trade deal." "And I made a great deal, $250 billion potentially worth of purchases," the president added. "And by the way, they're buying a lot, you probably … [Read more...] about Trump says held off on Xinjiang sanctions over China trade deal: Interview