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The Mexican president’s botched Covid response and his lean toward militarization indicate that he takes his cues from the past, not the future.

In a letter to the National Basketball Players Association on Tuesday, the US Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) called on American basketball players to end endorsement deals with Chinese sportswear companies including Anta and Li-Ning that use cotton sourced from Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

70 years of colonization of Tibet by China: Tibetans are a minority on their own land May 22, 2021, 4:02 PM IST Youdon Aukatsang is currently serving her third term as an elected member of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPIE). She is also the Director of Empowering the Vision Project [ENVISION], an NGO dedicated to youth empowerment with focus on Tibetan youth. In her past work experiences, she was involved in advocating for and monitoring human rights in Tibet. Youdon maint...

The Vatican Remains Silent on the Persecution of Chinese Christians 04/23/2021 at 5:46 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White By Fr. Mario Alwxis Portella, Crisis Magazine, April 12, 2021 Last November, Pope Francis, for the first time, called China’s Muslim Uighurs a “persecuted” people, something human rights activists have been urging him to do for years. However, during his solemn Urbi et Orbi Easter blessing on Easter Sunday, Francis snubbed the Uighurs as he carefully omitted any re...

The suit accuses Spain-based Inditex (whose brands include Zara, Bershka, Massimo Dutti, Oysho, Pull and Bear and Stradivarius), France-based SMCP (comprised of Parisian brands, Sandro, Maje, Claudie Pierlot and De Fursac), U.S.-based footwear company Skechers, and the U.S. subsidiary of the Japanese fashion retailer Uniqlo, of being "accomplices in serious crimes," including "concealment of the crime of forced labor, the crime of organized human trafficking, the crime of genocide and crimes ag...

No reports of increased blood clots in clinical studies of AstraZeneca vaccine, says EMA, seeking to quell rising fears.

Tibet Post International A Voice For Tibet Where is Tibet located on a map? Latest News His Holiness the Dalai Lama while speaking on Morals and Ethics, from his residence in Dharamsala, HP, India on April 2, 2021 12-25-20 00:00:00 06-27-20 11:39:59 Tsetan Norbu, President of National Democratic Party of Tibet (NDPT). Photo: TPI/Aashna Thakur Latest Impact Ian Hickie, a Professor of Psychiatry in Sydney, speaking by from Australia during the dialogue with His Ho...

Bridging the COVID-19 vaccine divide On Kindly Share This Story: THE recent pledges of COVID-19 vaccines from a number of rich Western countries towards assisting poorer countries to acquire enough doses of the vaccines to roll out their vaccination campaigns are edifying. By making new commitments to effectively end the COVID-19 pandemic through sharing of vaccine and increasing funds to the COVAX facility, world leaders have effectively risen to the challenge against the pandemic. COVAX is t...

US senators revive bill to combat China’s censorship Reuters, WASHINGTON A bipartisan group of US senators were to revive legislation as soon as yesterday to counter Chinese censorship in the US, a new effort by US lawmakers to hold Beijing accountable for its growing efforts to stifle criticism beyond its borders, US Senator Jeff Merkley said. US officials have complained that the Chinese government has increasingly sought to suppress opposition to the Chinese Communist Party by coercing US ...

/ Reuters, WASHINGTONA bipartisan group of US senators were to revive legislation as soon as yesterday to counter Chinese censorship in the US, a new effort by US lawmakers to hold Beijing accountable for its growing efforts to stifle criticism beyond its borders, US Senator Jeff Merkley said.