It’s become a matter of routine that every year the United States and China – from their respective positions of moral superiority – take part in a diplomatic tit-for-tat in which they each document the other’s human rights violations. In America, this...
Reflecting on the life of Mahatma Gandhi, George Orwell wrote that: Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases. Aung San Suu Kyi, writing after being...
The Dalai Lama suggests he’ll be the last of his line, and in doing so challenges Chinese imperialism. If one stands at the foot of the Potala Palace – once the residence of the Dalai Lama in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa – and looks south, the beauty of the surrounding...
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is doubling down on their year-long assault on ‘violent terrorist activities’, but what does this really mean? Independent journalist Tim Robertson reports from Urumqi, the capital of the western Chinese province of Xinjiang. Any...
The American philosopher Richard Rorty believed that the best way to combat human rights violations was to engage people emotionally, rather that rationally. He believed that a global culture of human rights, which in essence is a universally shared sense of humanity,...
