After a public call for nominations and a vote by the initiating organizations, the 12th Cao Shunli Memorial Award for Human Rights Defenders (2026) is awarded to two human rights defenders from China: Ms. Wei Wenyuan and Ms. Wang Rongwen.
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…… Pero la ONG Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) denunció recientemente que los cambios legales introducidos en China eliminan disposiciones que permitían utilizar lenguas minoritarias como idioma de enseñanza en las escuelas y consolidan una tendencia a sustituirlas por el mandarín como lengua principal de instrucción.
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经“曹顺利人权捍卫者纪念奖”发起机构公开征集提名、并由发起机构表决，决定将2026年第十二届“曹顺利人权捍卫者纪念奖”颁发给中国大陆人权捍卫者危文元女士和王蓉文女士。 2026年3月14日是曹顺利女士在她被任意羁押期间受折磨而被夺去生命十二周年纪念日。3月14日被大陆维权人士设定为“人权捍卫者日”。
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Chinese Human Rights Defenders Communiqué Alleging Violations of Human Rights of Gao Zhen, a Citizen of the People’s Republic of China Requesting Urgent Action and Review by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Submission to: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Special Rapporteur in the field of Cultural Rights Special Rapporteur (read more…)
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders—March 12, 2026) Chinese Human Rights Defenders learned this week that the Sanhe City Court in Hebei Province has postponed—for the third time—the trial of wrongfully detained artist Gao Zhen. Gao, who will soon turn 70, has been held for more than 18 months in (read more…)
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Sixty-seven years after the 1959 Tibetan Uprising, Tibetans across the world continue to march, protest and speak out to keep their cause alive. But activists and rights advocates warn that global awareness of conditions inside Tibet remains limited, even as concerns grow over cultural erasure, language restrictions and tightening control (read more…)
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…… La ONG Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) denunció en febrero que recientes cambios legales en China eliminan disposiciones que permitían utilizar lenguas minoritarias como idioma de enseñanza en las escuelas y consolidan una tendencia a sustituirlas por el mandarín como lengua principal de instrucción.
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Chinese Human Rights Defenders supported a joint statement delivered by ARTICLE 19 during the Item 2 General Debate at the 61st Session of the UN Human Rights Council.
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders—March 2, 2026) New CHRD research shows that Chinese authorities are denying retirement-age prisoners of conscience their pension benefits following their releases from wrongful detention.
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Washington DC [US], February 25 (ANI): Campaign for Uyghurs (CFU) has joined Chinese Human Rights Defenders and 24 other civil society organisations in urging Volker Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, to use his February 27 speech before the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) to outline (read more…)
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders—February 24, 2026) Twenty-six civil society organizations are calling on United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk to use his February 27 address to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to detail his office’s efforts to investigate alleged Chinese government crimes against (read more…)
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China’s Erasure of Ethnic Minority Languages
February 21, 2026 Comments Off on China’s Erasure of Ethnic Minority LanguagesHow is the Chinese government marking international mother language day on February 21? By legalizing the erasure of mother languages.
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