human rights

In a sharp rebuke to Trump policies, Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday formally scrapped a blueprint championed by his predecessor to limit U.S. promotion of human rights abroad to causes favored by conservatives like religious freedom.

“Unless stern legislation is brought against forced conversions of minor girls and the accused are punished, there is little hope for safety of our children,” rights activist Lala Robin Daniel says.

Uyghur women detained in China are being subjected to systematic rape and brutal torture, according to accounts from former detainees and a former guard.

Insurgents have beheaded “scores” of people in several days of attacks that began Oct. 31 in Cabo Delgado, a province in the East African country of Mozambique.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged the Vatican on Wednesday to join the United States in denouncing violations of religious freedom in China, saying the Catholic Church should be at the forefront in the fight to insist on basic human rights there.

Amid extrajudicial killings and other violence taking place in the Philippines, international church groups and human rights organizations are demanding an independent, impartial investigation into atrocities that have characterized President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration.

A doctor has shared that for 20 years she helped China carry out its Uyghur genocide by performing abortions, removing women's wombs, and killing infants right after they were born.

Chinese funerals cannot be Christian funerals, says the Chinese Communist Party, which is expected to release new religious regulations on February 1.