Voting Rights Bill Puts Democrats on a Crash Course With the Filibuster
When they passed a $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill this month, Democrats in Congress sped past their Republican opposition, ...
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Rights Activist Jailed in China’s Guangdong Over Support For Hong Kong — Radio Free Asia
A court in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong has handed down a two-year, nine-month prison sentence to a ...
McConnell attacks voting rights bill as GOP mounts ‘despicable’ bid to restrict ballot access
Republican Senator Mitch McConnell has criticised a sweeping voting rights proposal as a “solution in search of a problem” ...
US promises to protect women’s rights in Afghanistan
The United States vowed Tuesday to protect progress made in Afghanistan on women’s rights over the past 20 years, ...
UN Rights Body Adopt Sri Lanka Resolution in Key Vote – The Diplomat
The Pulse | Diplomacy | Politics | South Asia India abstained from voting while China voted against the resolution. AdvertisementThe 47-member United Nations Human Rights ...
U.S. Joins Allies to Punish Chinese Officials for Human Rights Abuses
WASHINGTON — The United States placed sanctions on top Chinese officials on Monday, as part of a multinational effort ...
Democrats Press for D.C. Statehood as Part of Voting Rights Agenda
WASHINGTON — House Democrats put new weight on Monday behind their push to grant statehood to Washington, D.C., convening ...
EU, US, Canada, UK Sanction Chinese Officials, Entities Over Rights Abuses in Xinjiang — Radio Free Asia
The European Union, U.S., Canada, and the U.K. on Monday leveled sanctions against Chinese officials and security entities as ...
Amazon Takes U.S. Rights To German Series ‘We Children From Bahnhof Zoo’
Amazon Prime Video has snapped up the rights to German coming of age series We Children From Bahnhof Zoo ...
EU approves Magnitsky sanctions on Human Rights violators in China, Myanmar, DPRK, Libya Chechnya and South Sudan
Many thousands of opponents of Myanmar’s 1 February military coup marched on Sunday in towns from north to south, ...