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North Korean children hold up red scarves to be tied around their necks during an induction ceremony into the Korean Children's Union, the first political organization for North Koreans, held at a stadium in Pyongyang on Friday. Pic: AP.

US to press China over repatriation of NKoreans

By AP News Tue, Apr 23, 2013 10:53AM UTC 0 Comment

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will press China over its forcible repatriation of refugees to North Korea, a U.S. human rights envoy said Monday. He likened the North’s vast gulag to that operated by the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Robert King is among U.S. officials meeting in Washington this week with China’s...

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China criticizes US for its human rights record

By AP News Sun, Apr 21, 2013 5:26PM UTC 0 Comment

BEIJING (AP) — China slammed the human rights record of the United States in response to Washington’s report on rights around the world, saying that U.S. military operations have infringed on rights abroad and that political donations at home have thwarted the country’s democracy. The report released Sunday in China — which defines human rights...

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US: Human rights worsening in China, Vietnam

By AP News Sat, Apr 20, 2013 7:46PM UTC 0 Comment

WASHINGTON (AP) — Human rights conditions are deteriorating in China and Vietnam but improving in Burma as it continues on its bumpy path to democracy, the U.S. said Friday. The State Department also said in its annual assessment of human rights around the world that conditions in North Korea remain “deplorable.” The report said defectors...

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Vietnam, US far apart on human rights

By AP News Fri, Apr 19, 2013 3:49PM UTC 0 Comment

Nguyen Van Dai, right, testifies at a court as his fellow human rights activist Le Thi Cong Nhan, left in second row, listens during their trial in Hanoi, Vietnam. Deputy Secretary of State Dan Baer wanted to meet Nguyen Van Dai and Pham Hong Son, two dissidents well known to Western governments and rights organizations when he was in Vietnam. They have each served four-year prison terms in the past. They are under frequent surveillance and are often harassed, yet remain publicly committed to challenging the party, prepared to accept the risks to them and their family in doing so. (AP Photo)

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese authorities seeking to stop a well-known democracy activist from meeting an American diplomat last weekend deployed an unusual weapon — a group of elderly ladies. The women blocked the road leading to the dissident’s house, preventing a U.S. Embassy vehicle from reaching the house. The vehicle was supposed to take...

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NKorea condemns UN call for human rights probe

By AP News Sat, Mar 23, 2013 3:21PM UTC 0 Comment

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has condemned a U.N. resolution approving a formal investigation into its suspected human rights violations. North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said Friday that it will completely ignore the resolution adopted Thursday by the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. The resolution calls for the creation of a team of...

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