human rights

Urgent: Citizens Movement Leader Xu Zhiyong on Hunger Strike in Protest of Inhumane Treatment in Prison China Change, October 24, 2024 We’ve learned the worrying news that Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永), leader of the Citizens Movement and perhaps…

The White House claimed that “thousands” of veterans could benefit when President Biden announced this summer he was issuing pardons to gay veterans who were forced out of the military because of their sexual orientation “and have carried…

Andrew Espinosa was in his office in Boulder, Colorado, when the first message popped up on the Air Force veteran’s phone: Andy, is this finally the resolution you’ve been working for? President Biden had just announced he was “righting a…

In 2023, the legislature amended the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA) to add anti-discrimination protections for “gender identity” but failed to revise the corresponding religious exemption, effectively attempting to remove it. This year,…

How the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre Shaped China’s Approach to International Human Rights Geoffrey Roberts, June 11, 2024 Fill the Palais des Nations in Geneva with pictures of “happiness” from apricot harvest in Xinjiang to rice plantation…

A Beautiful China – Eight – Petitioner Village Xu Zhiyong, translated by Joshua Rosenzweig and Leo Timm, June 6, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement,…

The ongoing border invasion is perhaps the largest source of human trafficking inside the United States. Yet the woman President Joe Biden tasked with monitoring and combating this problem has largely neglected that nexus in her reports,…

The effort to shut down a mainstream conservative conference in Brussels last week shows partisan censorship is a serious and mounting problem in the West. Although the attempted cancellation failed—thanks to a legal challenge supported by…

If you want to know what postliberalism and the end of democratic self-government look like, a mayor in Brussels just gave us a glimpse. On Tuesday, Belgian police surrounded and temporarily shut down the National Conservatism Conference on…

“When Catholics, Protestants, Feminists, and Marxists all agree on something, you know it’s bad.” Those were the sentiments of Swedish author Kajsa Ekis Ekman, who appeared on a panel of journalists at the second annual Casablanca…