Human Rights

The Senate Finance Committee is investigating eight major automakers after a report linked their supply chains to the use of Uyghur forced labor in Xinjiang, China.

False earthquake alerts went off on Wednesday on Android smartphones in Iran as the country continues to grapple with nationwide protests.

The Treasury Department announced new sanctions for human rights violations against a trio of Iranian officials involved in the regime's crackdown on protesters in predominantly Kurdish regions of the country.

Disney says it's "dedicated to standing up for the rights and safety" of members of the LGBTQ community, but it still does business in multiple countries that discriminate against LGBTQ people.

Procter & Gamble (P&G), an official sponsor of the 2022 Winter Olympics in China, is staying mum on the country's genocide of Uyghur Muslims despite being vocal on human rights issues in the U.S.

Olympic athletes' self-censorship of their criticism of the Chinese government does not stop when they leave the country because they rely on lucrative corporate sponsorship deals with companies that stand to lose money if they criticize the Chinese Communist Party, multiple human rights experts say.

Corporate sponsors pour hundreds of millions of dollars to advertise during the Winter Olympics in Beijing, but vice chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has argued this equates to "sponsoring" genocide.