China Human Rights

in recent months Beijing has been busy targeting home-grown adversaries -- Chinese civil rights lawyers -- in a series of moves that has been described as "an all-out attack."

Both Iran and China are modernizing autocracies committed by a combination of ideology and fear to maintaining control over their peoples' access to information. Iran's lesson for China's leaders is that the technologies of censorship, despite their increasing sophistication, may not be sufficient to prevent determined citizens from using technologies of communication to organize dissent and political opposition on a mass scale.

BEIJING — A well-known Chinese dissident who co-authored a bold political manifesto calling for greater freedom and an end to one-party rule has...

My experiences out West revealed the simmering race relations between the Han and Uighur peoples, which helps explain the necessity of sending Uighur detainees from Guantanamo to Palau and not back to China.

Iranian women are standing shoulder to shoulder in a way never before seen in a society that mistreats them so severely.

Police warned two Shanghai venues against hosting events, even as a state-run daily hailed the festival as a "showcase" of progress....

What happens when the Chinese request all PC's include internal hardware mechanisms for the tracking and monitoring of its users?

The report challenges the official government position that the Dalai Lama "incited" the protests and criticizes the government's response.

The fact that Tiananmen has yet to have a sequel can be explained largely by the economic success of the regime since 1989.

By Minky Worden Twenty years after the Chinese army killed untold numbers of unarmed civilians in Beijing and other cities on and around June 3-4, 19...

So long as American forces remain in South Korea, and no one threatens to unleash a refugee flood by invading or imploding North Korea, China can return to its ancient practice of "benign neglect."

An estimated 70% of North Koreans living illegally in China are women, many of whom live with Chinese men, have children with them and were sold by human traffickers.

In a marked departure from past practices, Beijing legal authorities have threatened to complicate or deny applications to renew the legal licenses of...

China should see the Dalai Lama as "part of the solution" on Tibet instead of trying to isolate him, US President Barack Obama's top Asia adviser said...

As the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai approaches, the government has been making a push to showcase the city as a model of social harmony. Just how they are making the sell misrepresents the minorities of China.

China's cabinet released on Monday what it called the country's first national human rights action plan, a lengthy document promising a wide range of ...

Eight parents and teachers have been jailed on state secret charges after using hi-tech communication devices to help pupils cheat in college entrance...

The story of one girl in China shows the struggle migrants face as they try to balance the demands of family, education, and their livelihoods.

Like the Olympics, the 2010 World Cup has the world's attention. It also became a chance for China to step in and force its anti-Dalai Lama message onto the stage.

The Chinese banking system has been through so much stress during the last few decades, they are in a much better position than the U.S. to deal with the global financial crisis, says Joshua Cooper Ramo.

This is China we're talking about, so the video isn't just funny, punny wordplay. The grass-mud horse video has become a national symbol of resistance to authority and censorship.

The folks trying to defeat Chas Freeman's appointment are trying hard to switch the ostensible reason for their dislike of him from Israel policy to Chinese human rights. It's not working.

MAQU, China -- Enraged nomads stormed through this windswept town on the Tibetan plateau a year ago this month, raiding a police compound, setting fir...