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China: ‘Harmonization Plan’ Erasing Tibetan Language

Policy for Kindergarten Children Imposes Chinese-Medium Environment, Indoctrination

Beijing-Pyongyang Thaw Leaves North Koreans No Escape

Click to expand Image North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (right) greets Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Pyongyang, North Korea, on February 10, 2026. © 2026 Korea Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP Photo Earlier this month, Chinese...

China: Pressure on Catholics Escalates

Click to expand Image The Xishiku Catholic Church, in Beijing, China, May 9, 2025. © 2025 Andy Wong/AP Photo A decade into President Xi Jinping’s “Sinicization” of religion campaign, Catholic communities across China face tightened ideological control, strict surveillance,...

China: Prominent Rights Lawyer Sentenced to 5 Years

Click to expand Image The 2017 trial of human rights lawyer Xie Yang seen on the social media account of the Changshai Intermediate People's Court in Beijing, China, May 8, 2017. © 2017 Ng Han Guan/AP Photo (New York)...

North Korea’s Rights Crisis, Not Just Missiles, Needs Global Attention

Click to expand Image South Koreans in Seoul watch a news broadcast showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his daughter visiting the undisclosed manufacturing site for a nuclear-powered submarine, December 24, 2025. © 2025 Kim Jae-Hwan/SOPA Images...

China: Cybercrime Bill Entrenches Censorship, Surveillance

Click to expand Image A person standing before an image of the Chinese national flag in Beijing, October 23, 2017. © 2017 Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images (New York) – The Chinese government’s proposed law to combat cybercrime extends far...

UN Committee Should Promote, Not Oppose, Civil Society

Click to expand Image United Nations Headquarters in New York City, US, July 16, 2024. © 2024 Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via AP Photo The United Nations will hold elections in April for the 19 members of the UN Committee on...

Don’t Forget Tibet on Anniversary of 1959 Lhasa Uprising

Click to expand Image Exiled Tibetan artists observe a minute's silence as they mark the 66th anniversary of an uprising in Tibetan capital Lhasa, at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharamshala, India, March 10, 2025. © 2025 Ashwini Bhatia/AP Photo...

China: Officials Pressuring Uyghurs in France

(Paris) – Chinese authorities have attempted to pressure two ethnic Uyghur activists living in Paris, including by asking one to spy on France’s Uyghur diaspora, Human Rights Watch said today. The case highlights the Chinese government’s increasing harassment of critics abroad and members of diaspora communities, abusive acts beyond China’s borders known as “transnational repression.”

Hong Kong: Conviction of Activist’s Father a Grim Milestone

Click to expand Image Anna Kwok, a Hong Kong activist exiled in the US, in Washington, DC, July 10, 2023. ( © 2024 Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters (New York) – A Hong Kong court’s conviction of the father of a prominent...