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Experts asked lawmakers to build an international coalition of support for the Uyghurs, increase tariffs on China and work to prevent U.S. companies from profiting off of forced labor. A guard tower and barbed wire fences surround an internment facility in the Kunshan Industrial Park in western China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File) WASHINGTON (CN) —  “I feel like I must speak up as a survivor for all those who have not survived.” Tursunay Ziyawudun is ...

April 19, 2021 13:51 U.S. Republican Representative Chris Smith, the co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, in a Congressional hearing on April 15 described the South Korean government’s ban on sending propaganda leaflets -- or "bible and BTS balloons" -- as a "retreat… from its longstanding commitment to human rights," and said he is "extremely" alarmed by it. In the same hearing his co-chair, Democratic Representative James McGovern expressed hope ...

The Biden administration has decided to return to the UN Human Rights Council in order to reform it and to call time on its notorious anti-Israel bias. Gerald M. Steinberg explains that while the structural and political obstacles to those goals are formidable, some improvements might be possible if the US prioritises objectives, which should include the removal of Item Seven from the permanent agenda, acts consistently and robustly in their pursuit, is willing to publicly criticise key officia...

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In a nondescript office on the outskirts of Seoul, a man I will call Kang copies South Korean television dramas and documentaries onto USB drives. In Seoul, this content is standard fare. Where it is headed, however, such information is rare—and dangerous. When the drives are ready, they will be smuggled into North Korea, where the programs they contain are banned by the totalitarian regime in Pyongyang, and anyone who possesses or watches them risks high fines, imprisonment, or even executio...