By AFPRescuers were working Sunday to reach 18 people trapped underground after a cave-in at a gold mine in northwest China's Xinjiang region, state media reported.A total of 40 people were working underground at the mine in Yining county, about 100...

By AFPFifty countries on Monday signed onto a statement read during a UN debate that condemned the "severe and systematic" human rights violations in China's Xinjiang region."We are gravely concerned about the human rights situation in the People’s R...

By AFPThe UN report detailing serious rights abuses by China in its Xinjiang region found possible crimes against humanity but not genocide -- an atrocity crime tough to prove in international law.As the fall-out from the report continues to reverber...

By AFPThe United Nations released a major report into serious human rights abuses in China's Xinjiang region Wednesday, saying torture allegations were credible and citing possible crimes against humanity but stopping short of calling it genocide.The...

By AFPThe UN human rights chief said Thursday that it remained unclear whether a long-delayed report on China's Xinjiang region will be published before she steps down next week."I had fully intended for it to be released before the end of my mandate...

By AFPMinorities have been drafted into forced labour in China's Xinjiang region in sectors such as agriculture and manufacturing, a report by an independent UN expert has concluded, in what it said could amount to "enslavement as a crime against hum...

CAIRO- June 1, 2022: China has hit back at US accusations of violating human rights, saying that the United States still violates rights with its policies regarding indigenous people and African Americans, besides turning millions of people in the Mi...