The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is holding hearings this week to figure out whether it has jurisdiction to evaluate if atrocities committed by the Myanmar armed force against Rohingya Muslims made up a genocide. The West African nation of Gambia filed a case at the ICJ in November 2019 implicating Myanmar of breaching the
Some 35 LGBT professional athletes are completing in this years winter season Games in Beijing– a record for any Olympics.The summertime video games in Tokyo, held simply six months ago due to Covid hold-ups, also saw new ground being broken for transgender and non-binary professional athletes. While not all transgender professional athletes go through surgical
Massive clean-up operation. In the consequences of the crackdown, a short article titled “Lets discover the terrorist mask of East Turkistan terrorists” released by Chinas main Xinhua news firm called the demonstrators, “insurgents.”. Following the event, the Chinese government used the demonstration as a pretext to perform a year-long massive “clean-up operation” throughout Xinjiang under
— Darren Linvill of Clemson Universitys Media Forensics Hub. Pro-China accounts have been flooding Twitter with messages that consist of the hashtag #GenocideGames, in what scientists say is an effort to water down the hashtags power to galvanize criticism of the Winter Olympics host nation.Human-rights supporters and Western legislators have actually used the #GenocideGames hashtag
By Saturday, the 20-year-old cross-country skier, had actually provided the slip to an excited worldwide press, her lackluster finish in her Olympic debut hardly mentioned in the Chinese media. The catapulting of Ms. Yilamujiang into the worldwide spotlight, followed by a subtle retreat, marked an exceptional 24-hour whirlwind for the hitherto-unknown professional athlete. Dinigeer Yilamujiang,
Brand names such as Coca-Cola, Airbnb and Visa have paid millions to sponsor the Winter Games, which began Friday in Beijing. In doing so, rights groups state they are endorsing human rights infractions, including the detention of countless Uighur Muslims. The Winter Olympics lasts for simply 17 days, the spotlight on companies that run in
Japans Parliament embraced a resolution on Tuesday revealing concern over the human rights circumstance in China, including the repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang and the crackdown in Hong Kong, calling on its federal government to take procedures to attend to the circumstance. In the unusual rights motion passed 2 days prior to the start of
A Lao human rights activist living in Thailand as a UN-recognized refugee is being held for deportation back to Laos, where he deals with arrest for his advocacy work, Lao sources say. Khoukham Keomanivong was jailed Saturday on a charge of overstaying his permission to be in the country and was attempted Monday afternoon at
2 ethnic Tibetans and a Uyghur are completing this year on Chinas nationwide Olympics group in Beijing, prompting sensations of both pride and concern from activists combating versus human rights abuses in the athletes home areas. Tibetans Yangchen Lhamo, a female, and Tsering Damdul, a man, will be contending in snowboarding and cross-country skiing respectively
