China's Weibo site backtracks on gay censorship after outcry
Apr 17, 2018
One of China's top social networking sites has announced that it will no longer be "cleaning up" content related to homosexuality following strong online opposition to the plan
Pakistan watchdog says country failing on human rights
Apr 16, 2018
An independent rights group in Pakistan says the country has failed to make progress on several issues over the past year, ranging from forced disappearances to women's rights and protection of religious minorities
AP Exclusive: Jailed Chinese pastor's US family seeks mercy
Apr 16, 2018
The American family of a prominent Chinese Christian pastor is asking for leniency after he was sentenced to prison for missionary work as the atheist ruling Communist Party exerts greater control over believers
Bangladesh rejects Myanmar's claim of repatriating Rohingya
Apr 16, 2018
Bangladesh has rejected a claim by Myanmar that the Buddhist-majority nation has repatriated the first five among some 700,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled to neighboring Bangladesh to escape military-led violence against the minority group
Indian protesters seek end to sexual violence against women
Apr 15, 2018
Thousands of people have protested across India to seek an end to sexual violence against women
Child's rape, killing in India mired in religious politics
Apr 13, 2018
The gang rape and killing of an 8-year-old Muslim girl gets tangled in corrosive religious and political debate in India
Rohingya in camp tell Myanmar official they survived attacks
Apr 12, 2018
Rohingya Muslims living in a refugee camp in Bangladesh told a visiting Myanmar official about the violence that forced them to flee their homes and presented him a list of demands for their repatriation
Myanmar court refuses to dismiss charges against journalists
Apr 11, 2018
A Myanmar court has refused to dismiss a case against two Reuters journalists after the reporters' lawyers insisted last week that the evidence doesn't support the charges
Memory boxes capture Afghans' pain of war, attempt to heal
Apr 10, 2018
Survivors of Afghanistan's many wars create memory boxes to deal with their losses and pain, attempt to heal
China bans exports to North Korea of weapons-related goods
Apr 9, 2018
China has tightened U.N. sanctions over North Korea's missile and nuclear programs by banning sales to Pyongyang of industrial products that can be used to make weapons
