This week, we mark another major advocacy win as the House of Representatives approved the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in a near-unanimous vote of 406-3. This legislation presumes that all goods produced, in whole or in part, in the Xinjiang region of China are the product of Uyghur forced labor and bans these goods…
In a major development for the Rohingya justice movement, two soldiers of the Myanmar army have provided damning video testimony that they were directed to “shoot all you see and all you hear” by their superiors. In addition to confessing to their participation in a litany of violations, including rape, executions, the decimation of villages,…
[September 11, 2020]: In a major development in Sudan’s transition to democracy, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok agreed to a deal that effectively ends 30 years of rule under Islamic law. The agreement, signed with Abdelazziz Al-Hilu, leader of rebel group SPLM-N, declares: “the state shall not establish an official religion. No citizen shall be discriminated…