Brussels’ hemicycle passed an urgent resolution on human rights and religious freedom in the land of the Red Dragon. We applaud it while noting a few faults. Marco Respinti Finally, the European Union (EU) gets things rolling. On April 18, during its plenary session, the European Parliament (EP) approved an urgent resolution requesting attention on the awful situation of human rights in China and requiring ...

Attending an institution of higher learning like KU allows you to be in an environment cherishing inclusion and diversity of opinion. But you quickly come to find not all the world is like that. Recently a professor brought awareness of a situation thousands of miles and light years away from our Mount Oread utopia: the brutal religious persecution of Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang Province of northwest Chi ...

The epoch time BRUSSELS—European lawmakers have called for sanctions to be issued against Chinese officials responsible for human-rights abuses and a halt on exports of cyber technology to China. A group of EU parliamentarians published a new draft resolution that was made public on April 18, urging Beijing to stop its persecution of Uyghur and Kazakh minorities, Falun Gong adherents, Tibetans, and Christia ...

Speech by High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini at the European Parliament urgency debate on China, notably the situation of ethnic and religious minorities Strasbourg, 18/04/2019 - 11:46, UNIQUE ID: 190418_5 Thank you, Mr President, As some of you [Members of the European Parliament] have mentioned, today we do have, compared to five years ago, a new strategy with China, but most importantl ...

Urumqi, China, Apr 15, 2019 / 11:08 am (CNA) Government-run social media and facial recognition technology are being used to help monitor and detain Muslims in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. This technology has been around China since 2016, but it has been a growing concern in regards to violations of religious freedom and human rights. Uyghurs are a Turkic-speaking ethnic minority that mainly i ...