Legislators, Rights Advocates Urge More US Action on Hong Kong Reforms

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Members of U.S. Congress and human rights groups are urging the U.S. government to do more for Hong Kong’s democracy ahead of a vote next week in Hong Kong on the territory’s Continue reading

Calls Grow For Aung San Suu Kyi to ‘Talk Democracy’ to Beijing

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Aung San Suu Kyi meets with China’s president Xi Jinping in Beijing, June 11, 2015.
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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi should “talk democracy” to China’s Continue reading

China Holds Activist Who Posted Umbrella Selfie on Tiananmen Square on June 4

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image (12)Du Yanlin photographs himself with an umbrella on Tiananmen Square, June 4, 2015.
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Authorities in the Chinese capital are holding an activist on public order charges after he raised a black umbrella on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on the anniversary of the June 4, 1989 military crackdown on the student-led democracy movement, activists said.

Du Yanlin, 52, who has worked for outspoken artist Continue reading

Declaration of Unity of the Tenth Interethnic Interfaith Leadership Conference

April 30, 2015

Washington DC, USA
We, the delegates to the Tenth Interethnic/Interfaith Leadership Conference, held from April 26 to 30, 2015 in Washington, DC with the theme of “Building A Free Democratic Homeland with Citizen Power: Prospects and Pathways,” recalled recent human rights and democratic movements in each of our communities, and looked ahead at the challenges and opportunities facing all of us.

Despite the worsening human rights conditions and the grim prospects for an immediate democratic transition in our homelands, we are encouraged by the unremitting Continue reading

China Silent on Aung San Suu Kyi’s First Visit

1B857161-4E94-4AE0-9437-1EB35E7C6EDC_w640_r1_s_cx0_cy0_cw93Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China, June 10, 2015.

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Last updated on: June 10, 2015 10:29 AM

BEIJING—Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, making her first visit to China this week, is expected to meet with Communist Party leaders including President Xi Jinping. Continue reading

Ai Weiwei Trades Politics for Subtlety in First Solo Exhibition in China

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The installation of an ancestral hall from Jiangxi Province in adjoining galleries forms part of Ai Weiwei’s exhibition.Credit Oak Taylor-Smith

Barred since 2011 from traveling outside his home country, the artist Ai Weiwei has become a master of what might be called “remote exhibition-making” — Continue reading

Pressure from Chinese Authorities Forces Ex-Detained Feminist to Shutter Organization

 

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Portraits of the five feminists who were detained in March displayed at a protest on their behalf in Hong Kong: Li Tingting and Wei Tingting (top, left to right), and Wang Man, Wu Rongrong and Zheng Churan (bottom, left to right). Ms. Wu said she has shut down her women’s rights organization.Credit Tyrone Siu/Reuters

A women’s rights organization linked to two of the Continue reading

China to Push ‘Special Bond’ With Myanmar During Suu Kyi Visit

FILE – Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is seen in a Nov. 13, 2014, image in Naypyitaw, Myanmar.

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BEIJING—Chinese leaders will woo Myanmar’s opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on her first visit to the country, a snub for the quasi-military Continue reading