Sep 28, 2020

Southern Mongolia: While Protests to Save Native Continue, Crackdown Intensifies

The Japanese news network NHK had access to videos of the protests conducted by Mongolians in China. Local residents have taken to the streets for the right to keep their native tongue alive. In response, demonstrators and parents of children who boycotted classes have been detained and that for allegedly staging illegal rallies and treated like political prisoners. China denies that its new language...

Sep 28, 2020

Southern Mongolia: While Protests to Save Native...

The Japanese news network NHK had access to videos of the protests conducted by Mongolians in China. Local residents have taken to the streets for the right to keep their native tongue alive. In response,...

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Sep 26, 2020

Ethiopia: Attorney General Denies Cases against...

This week, the Attorney General Gideon Timothewos made the announcement that about 2000 people are facing charges for the prostests in the aftermath of the killing of Hachalu Hundessa, an iconic Oromo...

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Sep 25, 2020

Hmong: US Senator Introduces Bill Recognizing...

Today [24 September 2020],  U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, introduced legislation that recognizes the refugee and immigrant communities from Southeast...

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Sep 24, 2020

Abkhazia: Sukhum Continues to Call for Dialogue...

The day after being elected president of Abkhazia on 22 March 2020, Aslan Bzhaniya expressed his intention to have an Abkhazian-Georgian dialogue. In parallel to the current Geneva format of dialogue,...

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Sep 23, 2020

Tibet: China Expands Mass Labor Program

China is forcing Tibetan farmers and herders into labour programmes similar to those used in troubled Xinjiang, a US research institute alleged Tuesday. "This is now, in my opinion, the strongest, most...

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Sep 21, 2020

Southern Mongolia: New Language Policy Imposed...

Even before the new language policy imposed by China, ethnic Mongolian schools operated bilingually and children had a good command of Mandarin. Fewer than one in six people speak the indigenous...

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Sep 19, 2020

Southern Mongolia: Chinese Foreign Minister's...

The official visit of China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Mongolia on September 15 and 16 to meet with Mongolian President, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister triggered a wave of protests amid...

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Sep 18, 2020

Crimean Tatars: EU Calls on Russia to Release...

The EU spokesman Peter Stano has called on Russia to release all “illegally detained” Crimean Tatars. The case refers to the military court in Rostov-on-Don that sentenced eight Crimean Tatars...

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