271. Germany has nine strategic partner countries that disrespect the freedom of the press – the Federal Government must show more commitment towards independent media coverage   On occasion of the World Press Freedom Day, the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) asks the German Federal Government to show more commitment towards the freedom of the press in their strategic  

272. Again, a Tibetan woman dies by self-immolation   …On Wednesday, another Tibetan killed herself by self-immolation as a form of protest against China's policy towards Tibet. The mother of three children died near a monastery in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Aba,…  

273. New IOC guidelines on political expression   … its own population," explained Ulrich Delius, the STP's director, in Göttingen on Wednesday. In China, several Uyghur and Kazakh athletes have been detained in re-education camps, solely on the basis of…  

274. Invitation to our human rights action   The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) and the World Uyghur Congress are organizing a human rights campaign on the occasion of the meeting between the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his  

275. Conflicts in minority regions continue – more than 65,000 Kachin on the run from violence   Despite the liberalization in Burma, there is no end to the fighting and the severe human rights violations in Kachin State in the northeast of the country. More than 65,000 members of the Kachin  

276. Violations of human rights escalate - New figures document the wave of arrests   … the streets in battle dress with machine pistols. " Instead of a dialogue with the Tibetans China's government pursues a course of intimidation and persecution”, criticised Delius. Block wardens are…  

277. Stockholm University closes down Chinese Confucius Institute   … that the political and ideological independence of the Confucius Institutes – which are promoted by China – will now be put to the test in Europe. At the turn of the year, following public criticism, the…  

278. New EU sanctions mechanism   New EU sanctions mechanism: Sanctions based on the Magnitsky Act are an important first step EU must give up its reluctance to criticize Chinese government and other unjust regimes There is no  

279. No clear commitment to primacy of human rights – Coalition agreement is “too indifferent regarding human rights”   From the viewpoint of the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP), the coalition agreement between the SPD and the CDU is “to indifferent regarding human rights”.  

280. New report documents human rights violations in Hamburg's Chinese sister city, Shanghai   … At the opening of China Time 2010 in Hamburg, the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) and the Tibet Initiative Deutschland (Hamburg regional group) presented their second report on the human rights situation in…