12-year-old Indian activist Licypriya Kangujam interrupts COP28 stage in Dubai

Licypriya Kangujam, a 12-year-old climate activist from India, interrupted the COP28 climate summit in Dubai on Monday. What happened: Kangu...

Activist from China escapes to South Korea on a jet ski

Chinese rights activist Kwon Pyong was arrested in South Korea while attempting to escape across the Yellow Sea on a jet ski.   Kwon’s escap...

Korean independence activist Yu Gwan-sun immortalized in AI video

South Korea has immortalized prominent figures from Korea’s independence movement against Japan using artificial intelligence (AI) technolog...

UN group calls on Cambodia to release Cambodian American activist arrested for criticizing PM

“Imbued with a moral compass that never waivers, Theary Seng is a hero of human rights, democratic reforms, and justice” ...

Hong Kong police offer $127,000 bounties for arrests of pro-democracy activists living abroad

Hong Kong police are offering a reward of 1 million Hong Kong dollars (approximately $127,600) for information leading to each arrest of eig...

Cookbook author Grace Young named ‘Women of the Year’ honoree for Chinatown advocacy

Self-proclaimed “stir-fry guru” Grace Young was named one of USA Today’s Women of the Year, an award given to women by the outlet for their ...

Activist criticized for questioning Chinese players at Australian Open about Peng Shuai’s whereabouts

Before you read: #WhereIsPengShuai: Tennis star now missing after her Me Too accusations against ex-CCP official Peng Shuai says her sexual ...

Indian activist accused of being anti-Black for opposing affirmative action admissions policies

Indian activist Asra Nomani has been accused of being anti-Black for her reaction to the Supreme Court hearings on two affirmative action c...

Ngo Vinh Long, anti-Vietnam War activist and scholar, dies at 78

Ngo Vinh Long, a Vietnamese scholar and writer famous for anti-war demonstrations that angered the South Vietnamese government in the 1960s...

‘He’s the kind of person who leads by example’: General Electric researcher HP Wang dies at 75

General Electric researcher Dr. Hsin-Pang Wang died from colon cancer on Sept. 6. He was 75. “He was really like a father and uncle to a l...

Indian women protest release of Hindu men who sexually assaulted pregnant Muslim woman

Dozens of women protested in New Delhi, India, on Thursday after a court ordered the release of 11 Hindu men who gang-raped a pregnant Musl...

Australian anti-CCP activist who says he was framed for bomb threat against Chinese embassy claims he was spied on, threatened

Australian anti-Chinese Communist Party activist Drew Pavlou, 23, has returned home after being held in London for four weeks over a bomb t...

Global community condemns Myanmar junta for executing 4 democracy activists, including Suu Kyi ally

Myanmar’s ruling military earned global condemnation after executing Hla Myo Aung, Aung Thura Zaw, democracy advocate Kyaw Min Yu and forme...

Chinese Canadian activist criticizes release of his attacker with no jail time: ‘This isn’t justice’

Louis Huang, a China and Hong Kong pro-democracy activist from Richmond, British Columbia, has slammed the court for giving his two attacke...

The world owes a debt to Kiyoshi Kuromiya for his trailblazing HIV/AIDS activism

As a self-proclaimed “Forrest Gump of activism,” Kiyoshi Kuromiya was present for many of the U.S. social justice movements in the ‘60s thro...

Longtime activist cites history of cooperation between Asians, Black Americans after being targeted in hate attack

Police brutality and social justice activist Rev. Harriett Walden was subject to an assault on Nov. 18 and has since spoken out about the in...

Activist, Civil Rights Icon Grace Lee Boggs’ Historic Detroit Home to Become a Museum

The home of late activist couple James and Grace Lee Boggs on Detroit’s East Side is slated to become a community museum, the James and Grac...

Artist Drue Kataoka Helps Crowdfund to Protect Asian Elders, Change Hate Crime Laws

Japanese American visual artist and activist Drue Kataoka has organized a fundraiser to support the Asian American Federation, a non-profit ...

Asian American, Black, Latinx, Indigenous Activists to Hold Emergency Rally Against Racism

Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to include Indigenous rally organizers, according to Rohan Zhou-Lee. Activists from the B...

Japanese American Civil Rights Leader Passes Away at 81 After Getting COVID 2nd Time

Rose Takayo Matsui Ochi, a Japanese American leader and civil rights activist, has died in her home city of Los Angeles.  Ochi passed away a...

#MeToo Activist Arrested by Chinese Police Over Controversial Charges

Sophia Huang Xueqin, a leading Chinese feminist and a pioneering figure in the Chinese #MeToo movement has been arrested in Guangzhou after ...

Activist Praises Asian Woman’s ‘Use of Her White Privilege’ to Help Protect Black Protester

Activist Ebony Janice Moore took to Instagram on Friday to highlight how an Asian woman used her “White privilege” in protecting a Black man...

Chinese Activist Missing After Being Taken By Police From His Home During Live Phone Interview

Sun Wenguang, a retired economics professor from Shandong University and a rights activist, reportedly went missing after police barged into...

Child Bride Uses Facebook Posts to Get Her Marriage to Alcoholic Husband Annulled in India

Sushila Bishnoi, a former child bride from Rajasthan, India, recently took to Facebook to help convince a court that she was illegally marri...

5 Ways You Can Make Social Change Without Really Trying

Inactivism. Slacktivism. Whatever you want to call it, the terms refer to people who want to make social change while doing the absolute bar...

Bangladeshi Teen Gets into Stanford After Writing #BlackLivesMatter 100 Times on College Essay

An 18-year-old Bangladeshi-American named Ziad Ahmed got the biggest surprise of his life when was got accepted to Stanford University after...