All posts tagged human rights
China’s ‘dictator complex’
Contrary to the conventional wisdom that China “is the world’s quintessential practitioner of realpolitik –[pursuing] its national interests without ideological biases,” the Communist authorities have an irrational “dictator complex,” writes Minxin Pei. China maintained its support for Slobodan Milosevic’s regime almost until the very end of his rule. In Africa, China stuck by Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, inviting him to visit Beijing even when he was an international pariah. Of Latin American leaders, the mandarins in Beijing seem to have taken a particular liking to Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, a dictator in all but name.
BBG may delay birthday present for PRC; no immediate RIFs of VOA journalists
BBG Watch has learned that due to overwhelming protests, including a full bipartisan rebuke by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Broadcasting Board of Governors may delay
BBG’s Commission on Innovation holds first meeting in New York as BBG ignores advice on human rights reporting from its own journalists
The BBG is bragging about its commission on innovation, which is great, but what the BBG needs even more is a commission on sensitivity to human rights abuses
BBG’s Commission on Innovation holds first meeting in New York as BBG ignores advice on human rights reporting from its own journalists
The BBG is bragging about its commission on innovation, which is great, but what the BBG needs even more is a commission on sensitivity to human rights abuses
BBG plan for VOA will harm human rights activists in China — Politburo Media Review
BBG Watch — BBG Politburo Media Review (also on BBG Watch Hot Tub Blog) The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) wants to end all Voice of America radio
China – Activists attacked while trying to visit human rights lawyer under house arrest — RSF
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Five human rights activists and netizens were attacked by presumed police auxiliaries on the night of 18 September while trying to
China – Journalist murdered while covering illegal cooking oil scandal
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that Li Xiang , a journalist with Luoyang Television in Luoyang (in the eastern
Iran – Regime continues to wage its war against foreign media — RSF
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iranian government's targeting of the BBC's Farsi-language TV station, BBC Persian.
Continued here:BBG pushes health reporting and English lessons, downplays political and human rights journalism on Voice of America
Recent developments suggest that the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which manages U.S government-funded international broadcasts, has chosen health reporting and English lessons as a partial substitute for
BBG’s “Recent Threats to Media Freedom” statement remains open to charges of hypocrisy
The latest BBG statement on threats to media freedom, while quite strong, ignores the detention of VOA correspondent in China earlier this year and is silent on violence
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Martina Schiavon: The news that Chen Guangcheng has been imprisoned for 4 years for his ...
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Ben: Radio "Svoboda" is drawn in strange actions: of defense of British Pe...