China: Joint Letter to President Obama, January 2011
Dear President Obama,
To be a success, the forthcoming US-China summit should demonstrate your administration’s commitment to human rights issues in China.
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Analysis: Obama on human rights in China: agree to disagree?
Few diplomatic rituals are more predictable than U.S. presidents prodding Chinese leaders over China’s human rights record.Continue Reading
Analysis: Obama on human rights in China: agree to disagree?
Few diplomatic rituals are more predictable than U.S. presidents prodding Chinese leaders over China’s human rights record.Continue Reading
Citing rights failings, firm divests Cisco holdings
A US investment management firm has divested of its holdings in Cisco, accusing the networking giant of failing to respond to human rights concerns, particularly in China, and lacking transparency.Continue Reading
Activist manager sells Cisco shares on rights concerns
Activist investor Boston Common Asset Management LLC said that it has sold most of the 167,000 shares it held in Cisco Systems Inc, capping a lengthy dispute with the company over its human rights record.Continue Reading
Israel/West Bank: Jail for Peaceful Protesters
(Jerusalem) – An Israeli military appeals court’s decision on January 11, 2011, to increase the prison sentence of a Palestinian man who protested Israel’s construction of a separation barrier in the West Bank compounds the grave due process concerns r…Continue Reading
Promises Unfulfilled
This 67-page report details how despite the Chinese government’s progress in protection of some economic and social rights, it has undermined many of the key goals of the National Human Rights Action Plan (NHRAP) by tightening restrictions on rights of…Continue Reading
China: Human Rights Action Plan Fails to Deliver
(Washington, DC) – The Chinese government has failed to deliver on commitments in its first-ever National Human Rights Action Plan (2009-2010) to protect key civil and political rights over the past two years, Human Rights Watch said today.
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China’s human rights ‘action plan’ short on any action, say rights groups
A two-year government “action plan” to protect human rights in China has proved to be “largely a series of unfulfilled promises,” a leading international human rights watchdog has found.Continue Reading
China fails on human rights plan: rights group
The continued use of torture, illegal detention, censorship and other offenses means China has failed to deliver on its first human rights action plan, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.Continue Reading
China fails on human rights plan, group says
A human rights group says the continued use of torture, illegal detention, censorship and other offenses mean China has failed to deliver on its first human rights action plan,Continue Reading
Vietnam: End Chokehold on Dissent Before Party Congress
(New York) – The Vietnam Communist Party should renounce its practice of tightening controls on peaceful dissent in the lead up to the Eleventh Party Congress and free those who have been imprisoned, detained, and censored, Human Rights Watch said toda…Continue Reading
Iran human rights activist jailed for 11 years
An Iranian human rights lawyer who has worked with Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, has been jailed for 11 years for actions deemed “detrimental to national security,” the activist’s lawyer said on Monday.Continue Reading
US slams ‘unjust’ verdict against Iran rights lawyer
The United States condemned as “unjust” Monday a guilty verdict in Iran against a prominent human rights lawyer, calling it part of a systematic attempt to silence defenders of democracy and human rights.Continue Reading
Beijing’s Broken Promises on Human Rights
China’s first National Human Rights Action Plan committed the Chinese government to end the practice of "extortion of confessions by torture" and put police and security forces on notice that "it is strictly forbidden to extort confessio…Continue Reading