Let's stop Uganda's anti-gay bill
Campaign Features
The plight of China’s rural migrants
Al Jazeera English has filed a video report on rural migrants and why they are treated like second-class-citizens in China.
Risking it all in the struggle for human rights in China
The wife of jailed Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia has spoken about the fear she faces as she continues to speak out about human rights, report the media.
China in the headlines – 13 October 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
The Wall St Journal looks at the ongoing public health threat posed by Beijing's media censorship.
Radio Free Asia has reaction to the news that jailed Chinese dissident Hu Jia wasn't awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Chinese officials claim they won't torture the Uighurs detainees being held in Guantanamo Bay if they are returned to China.
Plus …
World Day Against the Death Penalty
China, along with Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the US, carried out almost all – about 88 per cent – of the 1,252 known executions that Amnesty International recorded last year.
Defying a global anti death penalty trend
Around the world countless men, women and children wait on death row for their state to kill them – among them is China's Yang Jia and Viet Nam's Tang Thi Ba.
China in the headlines – 10 October 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
Human Rights in China says security forces have beaten and detained a group of villagers, after they staged a peaceful protest about a man made disaster that destroyed farmland and ponds.
The people of Tibet are suffering the worse era of repression since the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
The Washington Post's China expert looks at the case of the Uighurs in Guantanamo Bay and asks what now?
Plus …
Judge orders Guantanamo Uighurs be allowed into US
In a triumph for the rule of a law, a federal judge has ordered the US to immediately free 17 Chinese Uighurs who have been held in Guantanamo Bay for almost seven years, and allow them into the US.
China in the headlines – 8 October 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
China's milk disaster might have been averted, or fewer people affected, if authorities had let journalists do their jobs, writes a media researcher.
Authorities won't say how many children have now been affected by the tainted milk scandal.
China says it hopes the Nobel Peace Prize goes to the "right person", after predictions that a Chinese dissident could win.
Plus …
Skype users monitored in China
Surveillance has been uncovered in the Chinese version of Skype, an Internet-based phone and messaging service, reports the media.
China in the headlines – 7 October 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
Chinese dissidents Gao Zhisheng and Hu Jia have been named as favourities to the win this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
Authorities have stopped parents of children who died in the May earthquake from going to Beijing to protest or from holding memorials.
The Hollywood Reporter delves into film censorship in China.
Plus …
China’s censors meet Wikipedia founder
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has met up with a top official from the Chinese Government body responsible for censoring online content.
China in the headlines – 3 October 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
Revelations that a Skype joint venture in China has been monitoring users' communications.
Critics says China covered up the milk powder scare to protect the Olympic Games.
Plus …
Financial news outlet forced to close temporarily
A press freedom group has news of a Chinese financial publication that's temporarily been shut down. And it has an update on Propaganda Department orders sent to Chinese journalists covering the milk scandal.
China’s Prime Minister and the foreign press
Newsweek has an interview with China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, in which he answers questions about human rights and Tibet.
China clamping down on the Uighur people
Under the Olympic spotlight China was apparently left deeply embarrassed by a string of violent incidents in the restive Xinjiang region, but now it seem it's getting even, according to a report from AP.
China in the headlines – 1 October 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
The American Scholar magazine takes an in-depth look how censorship affects artists and writers in China.
More on news that jailed dissident Hu Jia was reportedly shackled and put in solitary confinement.
Tibet's best-known female writer continues to speak out despite losing her job and being under round the clock police surveillance.
Plus …
Hu Jia’s wife allowed to visit him in prison
Jailed rights activist Hu Jia had his hands and feet shackled and was held in solitary confinement, after he talked to fellow inmates about human rights, says his wife.
China in the headlines – 29 September 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
Petitioner Liu Xueli, who applied to use the specially set up Olympic protest zones, is dragged away to a Re-education Through Labour camp.
Police admit they have detained Chinese activist Ji Sizun, who disappeared on 11 August.
More on the fake news reports about China's latest space mission.
Plus …
Nobel Peace Prize for Chinese dissident?
One expert thinks jailed human rights activist Hu Jia could be in line for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize; and China isn't happy.
The UN to quiz China on human rights
The United Nations wants China to give full details of the number of people killed in the March riots in Tibet, and it wants to know why officials haven't got rid of labour re-education camps.
I hope that Australia is bringing diplomatic pressure to bear in the fight against this prehistoric legislation.
Join the debate
8 February 2012, 11:02PM