Tag: Human rights
Business booms for ‘yellow’ firms backing Hong Kong protest movement
Stepping up an economic campaign that took root amid protests last year, mobile apps and shop banners guide consumers to yellow businesses across the city
Police raid religious gathering in China, detain at least nine people
China has resumed its crackdown against Christian groups after the threat of the coronavirus pandemic started to decline, group says
Police clash with migrant workers as India eases coronavirus curbs
About 1,000 stranded workers seeking help to return to their homes threw stones at police who ordered them to break up
Indonesia pressed to free jailed independence activists
At least 70 Papuan and Moluccan activists have been locked up for peacefully voicing their political views, rights group says
Rohingya survivors tell of misery and death at sea; hundreds still...
As food and water ran out, they began to die of starvation, thirst, and beatings
US religious freedom body tags India as ‘country of particular concern’
Indian govt ‘allowed violence against minorities’ and also ‘engaged in and tolerated hate speech and incitement to violence,’ report says
Taiwan schools Philippines on civil liberties, sovereignty
Taiwan claims that foreign workers' rights and interests are protected by relevant laws and regulations, including freedom of speech
Deported Australian nun slams Philippines’ approach to pandemic
The 73-year-old Catholic nun said Philippine govt is ‘militarizing the country’ instead of waging an all-out war against the virus
UN human rights expert reports on possible crimes against humanity in...
Yanghee Lee said accountability was critical to ending conflict in affected regions
Under the shadow of contagion, Philippine activists killed
Killings comes amid govt warnings against ‘unauthorized relief operations’ in areas under lockdown
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