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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.
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