Issued on: 26/05/2020 – 09:54Modified: 26/05/2020 – 09:54 China is poised to enshrine individuals’ rights to privacy and personal data for the first time, a symbolic first step as more of the country of 1.4 billion people becomes digitised – and more vulnerable to leaks and hacks. Advertising Read more The legislation is part of […]
Issued on: 26/05/2020 – 05:32Modified: 26/05/2020 – 05:32 China’s plans to impose a new security law on Hong Kong will “only target a handful of lawbreakers”, the city’s leader said Tuesday, as she tried to reassure international businesses and investors rattled by the proposal. Advertising Read more Beijing wants to enact legislation banning “secession, subversion, […]
Divorce and separation affects many families, and following a breakup, most make their own arrangements about where children will live and how their relationships with each parent will work. But some families struggle with this, especially if there are issues like domestic abuse or other concerns about children’s welfare. In these circumstances families may resort […]
Issued on: 20/05/2020 – 03:29 Burundi holds on Wednesday its first competitive presidential election since a civil war erupted in 1993, despite simmering political violence and the new coronavirus pandemic. Advertising Read more President Pierre Nkurunziza, whose government has repeatedly been accused of rights abuses, will step down after 15 years. His ruling CNDD-FDD party […]
ALMATY, Kazakhstan — A prominent Kazakh human rights lawyer who aided a woman who helped expose “reeducation camps” for Muslims in neighboring China says she believes her car was tampered with in an attempt to injure her because of her professional activities. Aiman Omarova, who also represents victims of sexual abuse and was a recipient […]
On May 13, Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court is set to hold its final hearing in the appeal of ethnic Uzbek human rights activist Azimjan Askarov against his life sentence. Askarov, who also contributed to independent news websites, has been behind bars for nearly 10 years on what human rights and media-freedom watchdogs described as trumped-up charges. […]
Tens of thousands of people in Pakistan have protested the assassination of a prominent ethnic Pashtun rights activist and political leader who some say was killed by state-backed militants in the South Waziristan tribal district. Sardar Arif Wazir, one of the leaders of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), was traveling by car in the town […]
Pashtun rights activist and political leader Sardar Arif Wazir has died of injuries sustained in a shooting attack in Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal district. The Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), a rights group that Wazir helped lead, confirmed to RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal that Wazir died in Islamabad on May 2. Wazir was injured when the vehicle […]
Unidentified gunmen have critically injured a prominent ethnic Pashtun rights activist in an attack in Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal district. Sardar Arif Wazir, one of the leaders of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), was traveling by car in the city of Wanna when gunmen opened fire from another vehicle, RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal reported late on […]
The United States and European Union have welcomed the full acquittal in Azerbaijan of a leading human rights defender and an opposition leader. Ilqar Mammadov, chairman of the Republican Alternative Party (ReAL), and Rasul Cafarov, a prominent human rights defender and board member of ReAL, were acquitted by the Azerbaijani Supreme Court on April 23 […]