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[resource] SDF Chatter: Human Rights: Key Resources + Key Conversations

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This is a work in progress, keep checking back.

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Shanghai’s vanishing protest is a study in modern repression

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To force deserters back to war, Russia’s military is torturing their families

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The threat of sabotage from China is growing. That’s not an excuse to erode Australians’ freedoms.

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[As a personal note by OP: This is about Australia, but it perfectly applies to any democracy on the globe as well imho.]

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A human-rights researcher on why she pushed back when China bullied her university: "Democratic governments must resist authoritarian states trying to co-opt their institutions"

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Op-ed by Laura Murphy, professor of Human Rights at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. Her work focuses on Modern slavery. Murphy became prominent recntly when Sheffield Hallam apologised to her for removing their support for her work on forced labour in China.

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“Putin is the biggest child kidnapper in the world” - An interview with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk

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Stronger laws proposed to stop forced labour in UK supply chains

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The UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights has called for urgent action to prevent goods produced with forced labour from entering the country, warning that existing laws fail to protect workers or hold companies accountable.

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China and Russia repeatedly tried to defund UN human rights work, report says

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A small group of countries led by China and Russia has repeatedly tried to block funding for human rights-related work at the United Nations over a five-year period, according to a report by the non-profit International Service for Human Rights.

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China's targeting of human rights activists grows: UN report

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The targeted repression of human rights activists across borders is becoming more frequent and sophisticated, according to the latest annual U.N. report detailing acts of intimidation and reprisals inside the international organization.

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At the United Nations, China touts its progress on gender equality, but its approach to feminist activism tells a different story

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Ireland: University professor turns down invitation to meet with representatives of "deeply hypocritical" Chinese human rights organisation

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"Guilt by association": Children of human rights defenders are suffering from severe psychological trauma under China's state violence, new report says

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When giving birth is a national duty: China’s struggle to reverse demographic decline

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China political exiles in Thailand lose hope, fearing Beijing's long reach

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"A Call to the Free People of the World

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“A Call to the Free People of the World

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China: Courts used as tools of systematic repression against human rights defenders, report says

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UN experts urge China to end repression of Uyghurs and cultural expression of minorities

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China's new draft ‘ethnic unity’ law tightens ideological control, seeks to justify repression of minorities, erase language rights, extend control abroad, rights groups says

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A newly proposed law in China would provide a broad legal framework to justify existing repression and force assimilation of minority populations throughout the country and abroad, Human Rights Watch said today. Once passed, the law could be used to facilitate intensifying ideological controls, target ethnic and religious minorities including by erasing minority language rights, and foster control beyond China’s borders.

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China-Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai’s son calls for his father’s release at United Nations Human Rights Council

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Speaking up for the voiceless: Russian activists struggle to defend the rights of migrants amid wartime conditions

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Israel/OPT: Israel’s mass displacement order for the entirety of Gaza City is unlawful and inhumane

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Israel must immediately rescind the mass displacement order issued by the military to the residents of Gaza City on 9 September as it escalates its assault on Gaza City compounding the suffering of civilians amidst an ongoing genocide, said Amnesty International today.

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Seven Years of Injustice: Campaign For Uyghurs Demands Release of Dr. Gulshan Abbas

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September 10, 2025, Campaign for Uyghurs (CFU) observes seven years since the enforced disappearance and unjust imprisonment of Dr. Gulshan Abbas, sister of CFU Executive Director Rushan Abbas and Dr. Rishat Abbas, President of Uyghur Academy International. Her case stands as a stark reminder of the Chinese regime’s use of kin punishment and transnational repression amidst the ongoing Uyghur genocide.

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Slew of suicides rocks China’s Liuzhi System which allows authorities – entirely outside of the judicial system – to secretly detain people

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Torture and severe ill-treatment are rampant within the Liuzhi system. Indeed, the system of enforced disappearances and incommunicado, solitary confinement, detention for up to six months is defined as torture in and of itself under international law.

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SCO Summit: China’s ‘Davos’ of Dictators Should Spur Democracies Into Action -- [Opinion]

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Earlier this week, some of the world’s most brutal tyrants, responsible for mass atrocity crimes and egregious repression, gathered in Beijing in a macabre dictator-fest.

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“Like we were enemies in a war”: China’s mass internment, torture and persecution of muslims in Xinjiang

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The evidence Amnesty International has gathered provides a factual basis for the conclusion that the Chinese government has committed at least the following crimes against humanity: imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law; torture; and persecution.

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Mass defiance of Palestine Action ban "will not be silenced" by home raids

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'Chilling Attempt to Evade Accountability': Trump to Boycott UN Human Rights Review

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Amnesty sees potential Israeli war crimes in Lebanon

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Amnesty: still no accountability for China’s crimes against Uyghurs

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Russia moves to withdraw from European Convention for Prevention of Torture

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The Russian government has called on Vladimir Putin to withdraw the country from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, according to a resolution published on a government portal on Monday.

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Reporters Without Borders condemns Israel's killing of journalists in Gaza

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‘The Surge in Executions Shouldn’t Be Mistaken for Strength – It’s a Desperate Act of a Collapsing Dictatorship’

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China's Liuzhi system - a Party rule for solitary confinement outside the official legal system - expands in use amidst reforms

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Liuzhi - retention in custody is part of an internal CCP [Chinese Communist Party] system for detention and investigation and is not part of the State’s criminal justice system. While in Liuzhi, which is decided upon by the CCDI [The Chinese Communist Party Central Commission for Discipline Committee] itself, without any external body to supervise or approve, the person must, by regulation, be kept in solitary confinement, have no access to legal counsel (as this is by definition not a legal process) and may be kept from any form of communication. The target is, by design, held incommunicado. The locations used vary, from custom-built facilities to Party-run hotels, guesthouses, offices etc. The location shall not be shared, meaning the person is, by any definition, disappeared. This period of detention can last six months. There is no external appeal mechanism.

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"No different from a slave catalog" - Russian occupation authorities publish database of Ukrainian children for adoption, sortable by hair and eye color

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"Contemporary forms of slavery": Russia must act to end long-standing trafficking for labour exploitation of migrant women, UN experts say

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*UN experts expressed grave concern over credible and well-documented allegations of long-standing trafficking and forced labour of migrant women in the Golyanovo district of Moscow, in Russia.

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Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine: the ultimate reality check for international law -- [Opinion]

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Op-ed by Nataliya Gumenyuk, an Ukrainian journalist and founder of the Public Interest Journalism Lab. The text is based on Ms. Gumenyuk's intervention at the Helsinki Debate on Europe in May 2025.

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UK must respond to rising transnational repression on British soil by autocratic regimes, particularly China, Russia, Iran, lawmakers say

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I thought only Americans faced nationality-based discrimination by banks. But I heard there are others. Who else?

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FATCA specifically oppresses Americans who live outside the US. It strong-arms banks into treating Americans adversely different based on their national origin (ranging from denial of service to extra data collection and disclosure). I thought Americans were the only people who broadly face discrimination in banking due to their nationality. But I recently heard of other nationalities (not Americans) who are refused bank access due to their nationality (in Europe, where we might have a high expectation of human rights).

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Spain: Court rules authorities breached residents’ human rights in landmark case on livestock megapollution, says "human rights and environmental protection are interdependent"

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The High Court of Galicia has made a landmark ruling today, which confirms that Spanish national and regional authorities have breached residents’ human rights according to both the Spanish Constitution and European human rights law, by failing to manage record levels of pollution from hundreds of pig and poultry farms in the A Limia region.

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Social media can support or undermine democracy – it comes down to how it’s designed

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Designing more and better platforms to support democracy can be an antidote to the wave of global autocracy that is increasingly bolstered by tech platforms that tighten public control.

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China: 10 Years Since ‘709 Crackdown,’ Lawyers Still Under Fire as Communist Party Molds Legal Profession to Serve its Agenda

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The Chinese government is persecuting and silencing lawyers who challenge official abuses a decade after the “709 crackdown” on lawyers defending people’s rights, Human Rights Watch said today. The Chinese Communist Party has also strengthened ideological controls over the broader legal profession.

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Top Latin American human rights court urges "control" of fossil fuels in climate ruling, says that people have a "right to a healthy climate"

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UN Climate Expert Urges Criminalization of Fossil Fuel Disinformation to Protect Basic Human Rights

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In The imperative of defossilizing our economies report, Morgera argues that the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and other rich fossil fuel countries are legally bound by international law to phase out gas, oil and coal by the end of the decade, in addition to compensating communities for the harms caused.

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UN Members Should Renew Expert on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity

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Jewish, Baha’i leaders detained amid Iranian crackdown on spying

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China Building a ‘Patriots Only’ Hong Kong: Five Years under National Security Law, Rights Erased, New Ideological Controls

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China’s government has erased Hong Kong’s freedoms since imposing the draconian National Security Law on June 30, 2020, Human Rights Watch said today.

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China: Rights activist calls on world leaders to 'speak out' for jailed pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai as dozen of groups urge UK PM Starmer to meet with Lai's son

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A Growing Gap between Principle and Implementation: 20 Years of Responsibility to Protect

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“If this is not torture, what is”. Freed Belarusian political prisoners speak out

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"Work for us or ‘we’ll destroy you": China uses dissidents-turned-spies to infiltrate overseas activist groups, as authorities flounder

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How big brands and foreign money prop up Chinese forced labour

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Workers of the world: Modern-day slave labor is being imported from North Korea into Russia despite a UN ban

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Dutch parliament recognizes Soviet 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars as genocide

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A rare look inside China’s secret RSDL prison system by Australian journalist Cheng Lei who was disappeared by China’s state security police in 2020

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Stop unlawful deportations and protect Rohingya refugees in India

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UN Human Rights Chief flags China over 'infringement' of rights in Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong

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Togo: Authorities must investigate allegations protesters were tortured and end crackdown on dissent

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Poor coordination, information gaps hamstring EU efforts to combat China’s repression of overseas dissidents

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What really happens in China's 're-education' camps: 'The suffering and violence' of those caught up in the crackdown on Muslims do not correspond with the narrative propagated by China's government

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crosspostato da: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/36740689

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New report details China’s targeting of protestors abroad

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crosspostato da: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/36696301

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EU’s Human Rights Dialogue with China Still Going Nowhere: Group Urges Brussels To 'Achieve Genuine Progress or Suspend Annual Meeting'

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Human Rights Watch, in a May 15 submission to the EU, reiterated its regret that the EU continues to hold a human rights dialogue with China. Along with other rights organizations, Human Rights Watch has repeatedly criticized the box-ticking nature of the exercise, in which criticism behind closed doors yields no concrete improvements.

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In Defense of Confrontational Protesters

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Independent journalists resist threats in El Salvador

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App-solute Power: U.S. Americans’ Use of Chinese Apps Exposes Their Ignorance of Global Human Rights

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cross-posted from https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/36320854

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Relatives of Tiananmen victims fight against being forgotten in China: ‘I wish the government would give the people answers’

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Holidays in handcuffs: new report examines forced travel in China

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China Travel Magazine: Dissident Edition - published by Safeguard Defenders, a human rights organization - examines the illegal practice of forced travel, where the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) disappears its critics on secret trips to keep them silent at sensitive times [such as on June 4].

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Rights activist Örkesh Dölet descended on to Tiananmen Square with thousands of fellow student protesters. He’s now 36 years into exile.

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Rights Group Calls On China To Address Tiananmen Massacre 36 Years On [And How To Respond To Tiananmen Trolls]

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Thirty-six years after the killing of countless peaceful pro-democracy protesters in Beijing, the Chinese government still seeks to erase the memory of the June 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should cease censorship of the crackdown, allow commemorations, provide compensation to the victims’ families, and hold accountable officials responsible for abuses.

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Sexual violence in Sudan: “They beat us and they raped us right there on the road in public” | Médecins Sans Frontières

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In the Darfur region of Sudan, and in eastern Chad, MSF teams are caring for women and girls who have survived horrific sexual violence

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How China Pursued a Human Rights Activist From Xinjiang to New York

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'The plight of Jimmy Lai shames us all:' Jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and British citizen Jimmy Lai now exceeded 1,600 days in solitary confinement, yet has committed no crime

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crosspostato da: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/35703805

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China’s economy runs on Uyghur forced labour

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Environmental defenders targeted in 3 out of 4 human rights attacks

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China’s love-bombing of Gen Z Taiwanese has its limits: Young people still strongly identify with Taiwan and democratic values

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Spain, the only major European country to extradite people to China despite the ‘generalized violence’ in its prisons

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Companies committing human rights abuses for renewable energy minerals have surged

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