Persberichtenoverzicht van China

The time has come for world leaders to address the poorly regulated global arms trade that fuels grave human rights abuses of tens of millions of people and claims countless lives each year, Amnesty International said today as the Final UN Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) opened in New York.

In a campaign led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the International Committee for Liu Xiaobo, with the support of Amnesty International, hundreds of thousands of people around the world united on Wednesday in support of imprisoned Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia. Supporters delivered petitions as part of a campaign created by Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Change.org to demand their immediate release.

A Chinese woman who beat her husband to death with a gun after suffering months of domestic violence should not be executed, Amnesty International urged on Wednesday.

Claims that China’s system of “Re-education Through Labour” [RTL] is to be stopped in 2013 will raise more questions than answers, Amnesty International said in the wake of reported comments by Meng Jianzhu, head of the Chinese Communist Party’s Political and Legal Affairs Committee.