A senior Chinese diplomat on Wednesday stressed that in order to promote and protect human rights, all countries should join hands to build a community of a shared future for human beings, to work together for the realization of peace, development and win-win cooperation for all.
Last month, scientists announced that they’d created an unusual form of life. They started with pig embryos produced through in-vitro fertilization, then injected them with a few human cells, and then implanted them into sows, where they developed for three to four weeks. Most of the hundreds of embryos they created this way died, but 186 survived. For these, researchers reported, one of every 100,000 cells were human.
China reported 79 fatalities from H7N9 avian flu in January, health authorities said Wednesday.
Pursuing its own path in keeping with the national conditions, China has made remarkable achievements in its human rights development.
The United States on Monday blacklisted Alexander Bastrykin, Russia's top investigator and a close aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and four other Russian officials for human rights abuses.
Austrian Defense Minister Hans Peter Doskozil has called for a Europe-wide upper limit on the intake of asylum seekers as part of his new plan to cope with the refugee crisis.
Brazil's anti-poverty fight could suffer a setback due to economic strife, the United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) warned on Monday.
Australia's offshore detention policy for asylum seekers has been criticised by a top-ranking UN official.
Russian President Vladimir Putin withdrew his nation from the International Criminal Court on Wednesday, a day after a United Nations committee condemned Russia for human rights abuses in Crimea.
Scientists in Kenya are fitting radio collars on elephants to help secure the "corridors" they use between national parks, part of a conservation drive that has seen the nation's elephant population double within the last 35 years.
A researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, has received a grant to study the neurobiological basis of language learning in the mammalian brain using an unusual model system: the bat.
The latest findings by a group of Chinese and Swedish palaeontologists are suggesting that human jaws can be traced back to some prehistoric fish called placoderms, which lived more than 400 million years ago.
The Chinese government on Thursday published its third national action plan on human rights protection, addressing challenges and promising to improve people's standard of living and quality of life.
A white paper published Monday by the State Council Information Office hailed the new progress made in human rights protection in the field of justice as China enhances the rule of law in all respects.
Chimpanzees, one of humans' closest relatives, favor cooperation over competition, challenging the perceptions humans are unique in our ability to cooperate and chimpanzees are overly competitive, a U.S. study suggested Monday.
India's Supreme Court has ruled that people below the age of 18 years cannot participate in making of human pyramids during a Hindu religious festival of Janmashtami, officials said Thursday.
China on Thursday voiced resolute opposition to a call by United Nations human rights experts to release a jailed activist, saying it is "gross interference in China's domestic affairs and judicial sovereignty."
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