Opinion: China's Long Game On Human Rights
China is taking a more confident and active role in the international human rights system, even as the United States pulls back, writes Ted Piccone of the Brookings Institution.
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Latin American Countries Urge Investigation Of Venezuela For Crimes Against Humanity
The countries have submitted a request to the International Criminal Court in the Hague for an investigation of alleged human rights abuses in Venezuela dating back to 2014.
'He Belongs To The World': The Powerful Work Of A Jailed Bangladeshi Photographer
Photojournalist and activist Shahidul Alam has helped nurture a generation of South Asian photographers. He was jailed last month on charges of "spreading propaganda and false information."
Nicaragua Expels United Nations Team After Report Critical Of The Government
The human rights team had recently released a report documenting the extrajudicial killing, torture and sexual assault of protesters by the government of President Daniel Ortega.
Turkey's State Of Emergency Ends, While Erdogan's Power Grows And 'Purge' Continues
So far, more than 130,000 people have been sacked from the military, police, civil service and academia in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's crackdown, known in Turkey as "the purge."
Rohingya Crisis Is Making Some In Myanmar Rethink Their Views Of Aung San Suu Kyi
"All this likeness of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi, it's all make-believe," says the director of a civic organization in Yangon. "And now we know the real Aung San Suu Kyi."
U.S. Announces Its Withdrawal From U.N. Human Rights Council
The Trump administration long has chafed at the dubious rights records of many council members and what it calls a "chronic bias against Israel." Now the U.S. is following through on threats to leave.
After Crackdown, Egypt's LGBT Community Contemplates 'Dark Future'
Homosexuality isn't illegal in Egypt but human rights groups say other laws have been used to target LGBT Egyptians. "Prison killed me. It destroyed me," says an Egyptian woman jailed after a concert.
Will Trump Raise North Korea's Human Rights Abuses At Summit With Kim Jong Un?
"No regime has oppressed its own citizens more totally or brutally than the cruel dictatorship of North Korea," the president said in January. Human rights experts fear the issue may be ignored now.
Court Allows Northern Ireland's Abortion Law To Stand — But Says It Violates Rights
On technical grounds, the U.K.'s Supreme Court rejected an attempt to overturn strict abortion limits in Northern Ireland. But the court also said that the law is incompatible with human rights.