Human Rights

Female empowerment must be a top priority as Burma moves towards true democracy.

Authorities have charged the owner of one of the country’s only independent media outlets with sedition.

Owner’s of cyber cafés, mobile phone users, and website administrators could face jail time for allowing “seditious comments.”

Stateless, landless, and homeless, Burma’s minority Rohingya people have been called the most persecuted ethnic group in Asia.

Despite growing ties with the U.S., a recent self-immolation in Hanoi was emblematic of the country's deteriorating human rights situation and attacks on free speech.

Activist Chen Guangcheng has given a nuanced, optimistic account of China’s future. Can its leaders follow suit?

On religious freedom and the one-child policy, other nations stand quietly by as Beijing abuses its own citizens. They shouldn’t.

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping is in the U.S. He’s treated to tough criticism on human rights from Joe Biden.

The exploitation of lèse-majesté laws for political gain are undermining human rights in Thailand. Violence is looming.

Leading academics have this month abandoned microblog Sina Weibo over free speech worries. Will more follow?

Indonesia’s arrest of an atheist Facebook user raises more concerns over human rights in Southeast Asia.

Resource-rich Canada and resource-hungry China seem in some ways like natural partners. After a slow start, they just might be.