Farrow presses China to help end abuse
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After starting an Olympic-style torch relay through countries that have suffered genocide, Mia Farrow on Friday pressed China, the host of the 2008 summer games, to help end abuses in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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The US secretary of state is to urge China to play a greater role in the crisis over North Korea's nuclear plans.
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China, rocked by a brick kiln child slavery scandal, plans to set up a national panel to stop human trafficking, aimed at protecting women and children from forced labor and prostitution, state media reported on Tuesday.
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The Bush administration's point man for human rights in North Korea pressed China on Thursday to put more pressure on North Korea to end human rights abuses.
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China's lawyers association has urged making slavery a specific crime, an official newspaper reported on Tuesday in the wake of a trial of brick-kiln operators accused of brutally exploiting trapped workers.
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HONGTONG, China  - China has promised a sweeping crackdown on a slave labor scandal in a poor part of the country where poverty and unbridled growth have made work abuses commonplace.
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Hollywood actress Mia Farrow says  she will ignore a deportation threat and pursue plans to light  a symbolic Olympic torch in Cambodia's "Killing Fields," as  part of a campaign to end atrocities in Sudan's Darfur.
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WASHINGTON: Chinese Minister of Finance Jin Renqing has called on the world&#39;s developed countries to step up their aid provision to poorer nations.
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RUGAO, China  - Zhou Fenying is a living witness to the dark history that still poisons China's relations with Japan more than 60 years after World War Two.
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Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan has urged China to &quot;have a heart for dogs&quot; after thousands of the animals have been killed to fight rabies outbreaks, the animal rights group PETA said.
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China has gently urged Burma's military rulers to ease the strife that has seen tens of thousands take to the streets in protest, diplomats said Tuesday, even as Beijing said publicly it would stick to a hands-off approach toward its neighbor.
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China should help resolve a  humanitarian crisis in Darfur as one of a few &quot;critical  players,&quot; a British minister said on Tuesday, urging the  world&#39;s most populous country to be more active in global  diplomacy.
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US actress and UNICEF goodwill ambassador Mia Farrow pleaded Tuesday for urgent protection for beleaguered civilians in Central African Republic and Chad, both reeling from violence spilling over from Sudan's Darfur region.
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Members of U.S. Congress have urged  Chinese President Hu Jintao to parole a U.S.-based scholar  jailed for entering China illegally and accused of spying.
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Lawyers are mobilizing to press the rights of victims of a Chinese slave labor scandal that has unleashed widespread outrage, while prosecutors vowed on Wednesday to punish officials tied to the exploitation.
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Afghanistan's top human rights official urged the country to confront the horrors of its past, saying Saturday that war crimes dating back more than 20 years should be prosecuted and rights abusers should be purged from public office.
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Actress-activist Mia Farrow is leading a 'shaming campaign' to tie Beijing's support for Sudan to the 2008 Summer Olympics.