Tag: Human rights

US warns companies of potential risks from human rights-related Chinese entities
13Jul By Grace TsoiNo Comments
World

US warns companies of potential risks from human rights-related Chinese entities

In an advisory, the US State Department has warned American companies of the potential exposure they could face from maintaining supply chains with entities that engage in human rights abuses including the forced labor of Uighurs, ethnic Kyrgyz, ethnic Kazakhs and other Muslim minority groups, in China’s Xinjiang region and beyond."Today, the U.S. Department of State, along with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is issuing an advisory to caution businesses about the risks of supply chain links to entities that engage in human rights abuses, including forced labor in Xinjiang and elsewhere in China," the State Department said in a statement."Since 2017, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has ramped up its campai
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Kashmiri activists express concern over proposed amendments in Interim Constitution of PoK
22Jun By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia

Kashmiri activists express concern over proposed amendments in Interim Constitution of PoK

Kashmiri political activists have raised concerns over the proposed amendments in the Interim Constitution of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) by the Pakistani establishment saying that the 'unjust' law will give all authorities to directly-appointed officers from Pakistan, instead of the elected representatives in the illegally-occupied region.The provisions of the proposed 14th Amendment Bill in the Interim Constitution of PoK include laws which restrict any person to participate in political activity which does not believe accession with Pakistan.Activists have described it as a violation of the rights of “self-determination and fundamental human rights” of people of PoK."Pakistan has always imposed such laws through its facilitators on the people of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, which comp
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Thailand: Protesters demand investigation of exiled activists’ kidnapping
12Jun By Joanne SerriehNo Comments
Business

Thailand: Protesters demand investigation of exiled activists’ kidnapping

In Thailand’s capital Bangkok, protesters in held a small rally outside the Prime Minister's offices on Friday urging the authorities to investigate the suspected kidnapping of an exiled activist by unknown gunmen last week in Cambodia.Wanchalearm Satsaksit, 37, a previously little-known pro-democracy activist who fled from Thailand following a 2014 military coup, was seized on a street outside his apartment in Phnom Penh on June 4.Cambodian authorities initially said they did not have enough information to investigate, but later said they would. Thailand government officials have denied any role in the disappearance."It has been more than a week since this happened, but there has been no progress in the investigation," Jutatip Sirikhan, president of the Student Union of Thailand, said at
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Coronavirus has exposed ‘US-style human rights’ crisis, says Chinese report
11Jun By Joanne SerriehNo Comments
World

Coronavirus has exposed ‘US-style human rights’ crisis, says Chinese report

The China Society for Human Rights Studies issued a report on Thursday terming the US response to the coronavirus pandemic as “self-interested, short-sighted, inefficient, and irresponsible,” saying that it exposed the long-existing problems within the country.In the report titled, “The COVID-19 Pandemic Magnifies the Crisis of US-Style Human Rights”, the Rights group said “inequality within the US society was being fully exposed during the pandemic."“The US response to the pandemic has not only caused the tragedy in which about 2 million Americans became infected with the virus and more than 110,000 have died from it, but also caused the exposure and deterioration of the long-existing problems within the United States, such as a divisive society, the polarization between the rich and the
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