This week, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released a report detailing the United States’ history regarding sanctioning Iranian officials known to be involved in severe restrictions and violations of human rights and religious freedom.
The United States Department of the Treasury has launched a new round of sanctions, this time against (1) the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), (2) former XPCC Political Commissar Sun Jinlong, and (3) XPCC Deputy Party Secretary and Commander Peng Jiarui.
We must continue to condemn and place pressure on North Korea to extend all rights, privileges, liberties, and freedoms- the most basic forms of human dignity- to its citizens.
23 NGOs and organisations call for the dropping of all charges against Pastor Keshav Acharya who police in Nepal detained for a total of 99 days this spring. The letter, submitted last week to the Attorney General, decries the Nepali authorities’ handling of the pastor’s case and points to how their actions and the charges contravene both the Nepali constitution and international human rights law.
John Oliver confirms exactly what we all know to be true: “there is an ethnic group in China being systematically surveilled and imprisoned in an attempt to essentially wipe their culture off the map.”
Unfortunately, the months of May, June, and July have seen a handful of deaths of Indian Christians, both men and women as well as adults and teenagers, in a string of unrelated murders believed to be motivated by religious extremism.
Just this week, following a letter addressed to Ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu from the House Caucus on India-Americans, the House of Representatives ratified an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act which condemns acts of Chinese aggression
