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A petitioner in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu has died suddenly amid an ongoing battle for redress over her treatment at the hands of local family planning officials, RFA has learned.
"Human rights are everyone’s rights.”
China Must End Discrimination & Violence Against Women
Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have handed down a 16-and-a-half-year jail term to an ethnic Kazakh man on ethnic hatred charges, RFA has learned.
JW World Headquarters (05.12.2017) - On Wednesday, December 6, at 10 a.m., the Leningrad Regional Court will consider the appeal by Jehovah's Witnesses challenging the August 17 decision of the Vyborg City Court, which ruled that the Russian-language New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (NWT) is an "extremist" publication.
Chinese woman sacked for being pregnant wins landmark case against employer
The World Uyghur Congress concluded its 6th General Assembly in Munich, Germany by maintaining its firm commitment to supporting the rights of the Uyghur population in East Turkestan.
A former soldier says life as a woman in the world's fourth-largest army was so tough that most soon stopped menstruating. And rape, she says, was a fact of life for many of those she served with.
Ten North Korean defectors, who were arrested on 4 November after police raided the house where they were sheltering in Shenyang, northeast China, have been forcibly repatriated to North Korea.
