U.S. pushes China on human rights as talks open
U.S. and Chinese officials opened two days of talks on Monday in broad agreement on the need to bolster a fragile global recovery but with Washington pushing for an easing up in China’s crackdown on dissidents.Continue Reading
Biden and Clinton lecture China on human rights
Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton both expressed concerns on Monday about the recent security crackdown that has occurred in China.Continue Reading
Biden and Clinton lecture China on human rights
Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton both expressed concerns on Monday about the recent security crackdown that has occurred in China.Continue Reading
Biden and Clinton lecture China on human rights
Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton both expressed concerns on Monday about the recent security crackdown that has occurred in China.Continue Reading
Biden, Clinton bluntly press China on rights
Vice President Joseph Biden warned China Monday the United States would press hard on human rights, over which the two sides have a “vigorous” disagreement and criticizing Beijing’s latest crackdown on dissent.Continue Reading
Biden and Clinton lecture China on human rights
Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton both expressed concerns on Monday about the recent security crackdown that has occurred in China.Continue Reading
Biden, Clinton bluntly press China on rights
Vice President Joseph Biden warned China Monday the United States would press hard on human rights, over which the two sides have a “vigorous” disagreement and criticizing Beijing’s latest crackdown on dissent.Continue Reading
Human rights group warns of legal trouble for US, UK over Pakistani drone strikes
LONDON – A human rights group says it is searching for ways to use the British and American legal system to pursue those behind the drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal belt.Continue Reading
Europe: Landmark Domestic Violence Treaty Launches
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US says human rights in China’s own interest
Top US leaders urged China on Monday to improve its human rights record, saying it was in the rising power’s own interest, but a visiting official insisted Beijing was making progress.Continue Reading
Biden and Clinton lecture China on human rights
Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton are both expressing concerns about the recent security crackdown that has occurred in China.Continue Reading
U.S. to raise human rights cases with China: Biden
The United States has “vigorous disagreement” over human rights with China and will continue to raise the cases of detained activists with Beijing, U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden said on Monday.Continue Reading
Clinton says rights improvement in China’s own interest
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday encouraged China at high-level talks to improve its human rights record, saying that progress would boost its own prosperity.Continue Reading
Desperation and hope among Misratah’s wounded
By Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Libya researcher
During the long road journey to Benghazi from Saloum in Egypt, I barely felt the impact of the ongoing conflict in Libya, but for a few checkpoints and some thuuwar (revolutionaries) pract…Continue Reading
US, China to talk trade, currency, human rights
America’s massive trade deficit with China, currency rates and human rights concerns will all be on the agenda when top officials from the United States and China sit down for high-level talks this week.Continue Reading