All posts tagged human rights

CPJ Blog: Chinese microblog regulates, suspends users–again

Pity those of us who monitor the ups and downs of China’s popular microblog platform, Sina Weibo. For every story its users spread in defiance of local censorship, there follows a clampdown .

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Outstanding reporting on Chen Guangcheng’s story by RFA and VOA is unnoticed by Broadcasting Board of Governors

[caption id="attachment_12220" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Chen as Tank Man - 2011 Christmas Card to Free Blind Chinese Human Rights Activist Chen Guangcheng"][/caption] The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) executives

Chen Guangcheng says he listens to Voice of America radio which IBB executives claim almost no one can hear in China

BBG Watch Commentary

"[B]lind activist Chen Guangcheng ... the youngest of five brothers, began grade school at age 17. He was inspired to tackle injustice by listening to

Voice of America radio to China – the sounds of news silence from Broadcasting Board of Governors

The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the federal agency in charge of US international broadcasting, has eliminated two hours of live Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin radio

Human rights activist and VOA supporter publishes article on China’s war on baby girls

[caption id="attachment_10955" align="alignleft" width="113" caption="Jing Zhang, Women's Rights in China "][/caption] The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting

Supporter of U.S. broadcasting to China Reggie Littlejohn testifying in Congress on Chen Guangcheng

[caption id="attachment_12033" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Congressman Chris Smith with CUSIB Advisory Board Member Reggie Littlejohn"][/caption] Supporter of Voice of America broadcasts to China Reggie Littlejohn is testifying at the

Bipartisan effort by Victor Ashe and North Carolina congressmen to save BBG transmitting station is part of larger fight for public oversight of U.S. international broadcasting

BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a federal agency which oversees U.S. government-funded international broadcasting by the Voice of America (VOA), Radio and TV Marti

10 Most Censored Countries

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CPJ's new analysis identifies Eritrea, North Korea, Syria, Iran as worst

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Blog: Blind lawyer spurs news blackout in China – CPJ

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News of blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng has been censored for months. International news reports of his escape last week

Guangcheng case highlights ‘clash of ideas’ in US-China relations

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng’s audacious escape from detention is likely to have as big an impact on

CUSIB’s Reggie Littlejohn reported on Chen Guangcheng’s escape from house arrest

[caption id="attachment_11696" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Chen Guangcheng with his family"][/caption] The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) Advisory Board member Reggie Littlejohn reported that blind Chinese human rights activist

At Broadcasting Board of Governors, public diplomacy starts at how its executives treat their most vulnerable foreign employees

How an employer treats his employees determines how loyal they are, how well they perform and how an organization they work for is perceived by the public. Public

Passive aggressive BBG staff?

BBG Watch Commentary Is it only us, or was Lynne Weil engaging in a bit of passive aggressive behavior at the recent Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) meeting in

Radio Free Asia Honored at Hong Kong Human Rights Press Awards

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:   April 23, 2012 Contact: Rohit Mahajan 202 530 4976 mahajanr@rfa.org   Radio Free Asia Honored at Hong Kong Human Rights Press Awards   Human Trafficking Web Video Series,

BBG Governor Victor Ashe pays tribute to Annette Lantos and her late husband

[caption id="attachment_14381" align="alignleft" width="187" caption="Annette Lantos with her husband Congressman Tom Lantos"][/caption] At the meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) in Miami on April 20,

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