Four years ago this month, Chinese authorities stopped activist Cao Shunli at Beijing’s airport. After questioning her about her plans to travel to Geneva, where she was slated to participate in training sessions about the United Nations Human Rights Council, Cao was detained, held incommunicado for a month, and then charged with “picking quarrels and stirring up troubles.”
Lack of Transparency in Donor Funding for Syrian Refugee Education
Secret Detentions and Enforced Disappearances in Bangladesh
Discrimination Against LGBT Students in the Philippines
Human Rights Watch reporting on the Burmese military’s ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing.
“What will happen to us?” “Will they fingerprint us?” was the constant refrain as we watched a human wave of asylum seekers and migrants from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan crossing the Serbia-Hungary border.
