human rights

The International Day of the Girl Child focuses attention on the need to address the challenges girls face and to promote girls’ empowerment and the fulfillment of their human rights.

The United States joined 38 other countries Tuesday in signing a joint statement to the United Nations condemning Chinese human rights abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, and requesting the United Nations investigate the situation.

Pope Francis has called on world leaders to be “especially attentive” to children who have been denied their fundamental rights amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

The United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights has raised alarm over the rising human rights abuses in many Asian countries.

In a jam-packed hospital ward, 43-year-old Sushma Devi was lying on an old bed, murmuring a prayer while trying to ignore the pain from a wound to her head.

The Karen National Union (KNU) in Myanmar has called for an international investigation into the killing of an ethnic Karen woman allegedly by government soldiers in Mutraw District, Karen State.

Asian lawmakers are among the more than 600 elected officials from 30 countries who have called on China’s communist rulers to immediately halt the “systematic and brutal campaign to ‘eradicate’ the spiritual discipline of Falun Gong.”

Myanmar has failed to undertake meaningful reforms to bring its many rights-violating laws into compliance with international standards, Human Rights Watch said July 20 in a submission to the United Nations Human Rights (HRW) Council for Myanmar’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in January 2021.

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a report Tuesday recommending a “binding agreement” between the United States and Pakistan, with the goal of encouraging Pakistan to improve its treatment of religious minorities.