Human Rights Violations News and Updates
China is arbitrarily detaining an estimated one million Muslims in Xinjiang, in what the authorities call “political education camps.” Millions more are subjected to intrusive mass surveillance.
Following unprecedented global attention on Saudi Arabia’s discriminatory male guardianship system, which restricts women’s rights to travel (among other things), Saudi authorities undertook reform.
Professor David Kotz discusses how the U.S.'s hardened trade stance has nothing to do with human rights, despite new reports of the massive human rights violations of the Uighurs, a Muslim minority in western China.
Human rights in China under Xi Jinping ‘worst since Tiananmen crackdown
Saudi Arabia's human rights record has been called into question after the news that 47 people were executed in one day.
The country remains a member of the United Nations human rights council despite making extensive use of the death penalty and carrying out dozens of public executions.
Cultural and Historical Challenges to the UN Declaration of Human Rights China
"Before considering the general principles, I would like to point out that the problem of human rights was seldom discussed by Chinese thinkers of the past, at least not in the same way as it was in the West. There was no open declaration of human rights in China, either by individual thinkers or by political constitutions, until this concept was introduced from the West. In fact, the early translators of Western political philosophy found it difficult to arrive at a Chinese equivalent for the term “rights”. The term we use to translate “rights” now is two words “Chuan Li”, which literally means “power and interest” and which, I believe, was first coined by a Japanese writer on Western Public Law in 1868, and later adopted by Chinese writers."
-Lo Chung Shu https://en.unesco.org/courier/2018-4/confucian-approach-human-rights
