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“Persisting in Resisting” ——Annual Report on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders in China (2022)

March 15, 2023 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders— March 15, 2023) This year marks the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the U.N. Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, which recognizes the key role of human rights defenders (HRDs) in the realization of human rights and provides that each State has a responsibility and duty “to (read more…)

Winners Named for the 2023 Cao Shunli Memorial Award for Human Rights Defenders: Xu Qin and Peng Lifa

March 14, 2023 Comments Off

Human rights defenders Xu Qin and Peng Lifa are recipients of the Ninth Annual Cao Shunli Memorial Award for Human Rights Defenders. The decision recognizes Xu Qin’s long-standing civil society activism to promote protection of human rights in China, and the brave civil disobedience by Peng Lifa to spur on (read more…)

China’s zero-covid protesters helped end the lockdowns. Where are they now?

February 23, 2023 Comments Off

In China, life has returned to something like the pre-covid normal. You no longer need to show a green health QR code to enter public places or swab your throat every other day for mandatory PCR testing, and lockdowns are a thing of the past. But some of the people (read more…)

Journalist held without trial in China said to need urgent medical attention

February 16, 2023 Comments Off

Advocates of Huang Xueqin accuse authorities of ‘trying to exert mental pressure and physical torture’

Trial of the ‘Hong Kong 47’ symbolises China’s attempts to dissolve civil society

February 15, 2023 Comments Off

Experts say Chinese authorities want to send the message that critical voices deemed a threat to the regime will be erased

CHRD和HUIF联合提交联合国的“经济，社会和文化权利文员会”的民间社会报告 – 2023年1月15日

February 13, 2023 Comments Off

中国新疆维吾尔自治区的回族人口——人数超过100万——一直是政府在该地区反恐运动中反人类罪的目标群体之一。从2014年开始，并在2017年升级，这也是一场针对维吾尔族、哈萨克族、吉尔吉斯族和其他突厥语群体的反恐运动，引起广泛的国际关注。

Structural Problems Underpinning Systemic Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in China

February 13, 2023 Comments Off

This report addresses the questions how the Chinese government has been doing in protecting economic, social, and cultural rights in the past few years. The report examines the structural defects that underpin the problems in protection of these rights. And the report sheds light on the systematic failures that many (read more…)

Joint CHRD and RDN Civil Society Report Submitted to CESCR

February 8, 2023 Comments Off

The Chinese government’s replies to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ List of Issues (LOI) in relation to its State party report (E/C.12/CHN/3) currently under review, are, with only a few exceptions, inadequate, misleading, irrelevant and utterly divorced from reality (see (E/C.12/CHN/RQ/3))

“Persisting in Resisting” ——Annual Report on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders in China (2022)

Winners Named for the 2023 Cao Shunli Memorial Award for Human Rights Defenders: Xu Qin and Peng Lifa

China’s zero-covid protesters helped end the lockdowns. Where are they now?

Journalist held without trial in China said to need urgent medical attention

Trial of the ‘Hong Kong 47’ symbolises China’s attempts to dissolve civil society

CHRD和HUIF联合提交联合国的“经济，社会和文化权利文员会”的民间社会报告 – 2023年1月15日

Structural Problems Underpinning Systemic Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in China

Joint CHRD and RDN Civil Society Report Submitted to CESCR

Joint CHRD and HUIF Civil Society Report Submitted to CESCR – January 15, 2023

CHRD 和 RDN 联合递交联合国“经济、社会和文化权利委员会”的民间社会报告

‘We just want to live in a normal world’: China’s young protesters speak out, and disappear

Hong Kong 47: trial of dozens in pro-democracy movement set to begin under national security laws