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UNHCR: State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2010 - China

During the year there were numerous examples of human rights violations, including: abuses of freedoms of expression, speech and press; denial of other civil and political rights; an insufficiently independent and effective judiciary; as well as many cases of arbitrary arrest, detention and inadequate access to remedy.
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Views Show How North Korea Policy Spreads Misery

Interviews in the past month with eight North Koreans who recently left their country ... paint a haunting portrait of desperation inside North Korea, a nation of 24 million people, and of growing resentment toward its erratic leader, Kim Jong-il.

UN 2010 Reports Highlight the Persecution of Falun Gong

All three Special Rapporteurs sent numerous urgent appeals to the Chinese government concerning Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetans, Christians and Uighurs, or lawyers who have sought to defend their legal and human rights.

 

The Party's Over: China's Endgame

China faces a number of problems: banks with a spate of bad loans, defective products, poisonous foods, a grossly underfunded social security system, a rapidly aging society due to the brutally enforced one-child policy, rising violent crimes, a monumental environmental crisis, the biggest wave...

Chinese accused of vast trade in organs

China's hidden policy of executing prisoners of the forbidden quasi-Buddhist group Falun Gong and harvesting their organs for worldwide sale has been expanded to include Tibetans, "house church" Christians and Muslim Uighurs, human rights activists said Monday.