DAFOH and four other NGOs launch an appeal at the end of the “World Summit on Combating and Preventing Forced Organ Harvesting.” Bitter Winter was there.
Marco Respinti
Attacks Against Religious Minorities’ Real Estate Denounced at the UN Human Rights Council
A written submission for the United Nations Human Rights Council exposed a growing international problem, quoting the Tai Ji Men case in Taiwan.
The Tai Ji Men Case: Why Did the Parliament Fail?
Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan tried to restore justice, but failed—why? Experts offered their answers on International Day of Parliamentarianism.
Vatican vs Italy on New Homophobia Bill: Why It’s a Religious Liberty Issue
The Vatican claims the new law would breach the Concordat between Italy and the Holy See. It is not about LGBT rights, it is about freedom of religion or belief
A House Divided: European Union Countries and China
While the Czech Republic and Belgium label the horrors of Xinjiang as “genocide,” a strange Italian document vows to go on with the Belt and Road cooperation
Europe Will Not Have a Religious Liberty Day
The proposal by the Conservatives and Reformists group was rejected before reaching the floor of the European Parliament.
Tiananmen, 1989: “I Climbed Up the Tank, and Jumped Off the Other Side”
Rose Tang, then a student protest leader, discusses with Bitter Winter those terrible hours and their implications for the current situation.
“Counter-order, Comrades!” The CCP Now Wants More Births
Although contradictory, statistics indicate China has a demography problem. The regime will solve it in its usual way, i.e., ignoring individual freedom.
Italian Parliament Condemns CCP’s Crimes Against Uyghurs
But the text stops short of using the word “genocide” to describe what China is doing in Xinjiang.
“China is Writing the Handbook for Future Genocides”
A webinar hosted by three Canadian NGOs offered one of the best accounts of crimes perpetrated in Xinjiang and Chinese propaganda denying them.
Marco Respinti
Marco Respinti is an Italian professional journalist, member of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), author, translator, and lecturer. He has contributed and contributes to several journals and magazines both in print and online, both in Italy and abroad. Author of books and chapter in books, he has translated and/or edited works by, among others, Edmund Burke, Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot, Russell Kirk, J.R.R. Tolkien, Régine Pernoud and Gustave Thibon. A Senior fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal (a non-partisan, non-profit U.S. educational organization based in Mecosta, Michigan), he is also a founding member as well as a member of the Advisory Council of the Center for European Renewal (a non-profit, non-partisan pan-European educational organization based in The Hague, The Netherlands). A member of the Advisory Council of the European Federation for Freedom of Belief, in December 2022, the Universal Peace Federation bestowed on him, among others, the title of Ambassador of Peace. From February 2018 to December 2022, he has been the Editor-in-Chief of International Family News. He serves as Director-in-Charge of the academic publication The Journal of CESNUR and Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights.