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EU lawmakers voted on Tuesday to ban products made using forced labour which supporters hope will be used to block goods from China, at the risk of raising tensions with Beijing.The law does not directly mention China, but many lawmakers hope it will be used to block imports from China involving the region where the Uyghur Muslim minority lives.

Volkswagen is drawing up plans to pull out of China’s troubled Xinjiang region after the German car maker was accused of benefiting from human rights abuses there.

Forced sterilisation is a backward and painfully discriminatory response to disability.

'My husband abandoned me because I could no longer get pregnant' - survivors’ chilling accounts at the hands of health providers

A group of 85 HIV-positive women represented by the Her Rights Initiative (HRI) has written an open letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa, calling on him to start the process of compensation from government after they were forcefully sterilised by clinicians.

The Dutch government has issued an official apology to transgender and intersex persons who were compelled to undergo surgery and sterilise to be formally recognised in their gender under a law. The law, which was enacted in 1985 and remained in effect until 2014, is likely to have affected 2,000 individuals, despite years of protest from human rights groups and organisations such as the United Nations and the Council of Europe.

BEIJING, May 19 — She was already beyond child-bearing age, but Qelbinur Sedik says Chinese authorities still forcibly sterilised her, part of what she describes as a systematic campaign to suppress births of Uyghurs and other minorities in the tense Xinjiang region. In 2019, Sedik — then aged...

Nordic countries like Finland have an image as ideal welfare countries: virtually free healthcare, good student support, free education at all levels. There is certainly a lot to praise, especially as a student. However, perhaps due to this image as the quintessential model of equality and freedom, the ongoing fight for trans rights remains buried deep under the radar of the public consciousness. In Finland, to change one’s gender markers in the juridical system (also known as gender recognit...