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May 23, 2014

North Korea
Roberta Cohen: Moving Forward on North Korean Human Rights

Roberta Cohen is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, specializing in human rights and humanitarian issues. “Now is the time to act,” the UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Huma…

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May 18, 2011

Elections and Voting
TWE Mailbag: UN Human Rights Council on Syria, Herman Cain on Afghanistan

An Austrian Post employee sorts letters in Vienna. (Leonhard Foeger/courtesy Reuters) The White House just announced that it has imposed financial sanctions on Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and s…

An Austrian Post employee sorts letters in Vienna. (Leonhard Foeger/courtesy Reuters)

May 29, 2020

Hong Kong
Is Hong Kong Still Autonomous? What to Know About China’s New Laws

Beijing’s new national security legislation could effectively end Hong Kong’s promised semiautonomy.

June 2, 2014

China
China’s Rights Struggle Twenty-Five Years After Tiananmen

Despite China’s economic progress in the twenty-five years since the crackdown on democracy activists, ongoing abuses of political and civil rights pose a threat to authorities, says CFR’s Jerome A. …

September 26, 2019

China
Communist China’s Painful Human Rights Story

The Chinese Communist Party has used arbitrary detention to maintain power since the People’s Republic of China was founded seventy years ago.

Shadows of people are seen in front of an illuminated poster of Xi Jinping.