Bloomberg China may be holding as many as one million members of its Muslim Uighur minority in “re-education” camps in its western region of Xinjiang, according to United Nations human rights experts. Speaking in Geneva on August 10 during the opening session of a two-day review into China’s policies, Gay McDougall, a member of the United Nations Committee on the ...

Bloomberg In the runup to the resumption of US sanctions against Iran, the country’s beleaguered president, Hassan Rouhani, got stern directives from a few corners of the Islamic Republic. Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, urged him to deal with corruption. The powerful Revolutionary Guards commander told him to focus on Iran’s slumping currency, the rial, while a sizable chunk of ...

Bloomberg Chile is fast ditching its reputation as South America’s most conservative and Catholic country, with lawmakers now discussing whether to make it the second nation in the region to legalise euthanasia. Less than a year after allowing abortion in some cases, a commission of the Chamber of Deputies approved a bill that would permit euthanasia for the terminally ill ...