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CHRD submission to WGEID on short-term enforced disappearances

December 19, 2025 Comments Off

In October 2024, the Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) and the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) issued the Joint statement on so-called “short-term enforced disappearances”that described them as a “grave human rights violation.” This follows a 2016 statement ahead of the International Day of the Victims of (read more…)

CHRD Submits Follow-up Report to Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

May 1, 2025 Comments Off

In its May 2023 concluding observations of the ninth periodic report of China, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women asked the government for information on progress towards fulfilling four recommendations. Those recommendations were meant to have been fulfilled by May 2025. CHRD’s analysis of Beijing’s efforts follows (read more…)

CHRD Submits Follow-up Report to UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

April 1, 2025 Comments Off

In its March 2023 concluding observations of its third periodic review of China, the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights asked the government for information on progress towards fulfilling four recommendations. Those recommendations were meant to have been fulfilled by March 2025. CHRD’s analysis of Beijing’s efforts follows below, (read more…)

Chinese Government Rejects Key Human Rights Recommendations in Latest UN Review

June 25, 2024 Comments Off

The Chinese government’s rejection of recommendations to end its deepening human rights crisis reflects its disdain for international human rights reviews at the United Nations, the undersigned human rights nongovernmental organizations said in a joint statement released on June 25, 2024.

Summary of stakeholders’ submissions on China*

December 22, 2023 Comments Off

1. The present report was prepared pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1 and 16/21, taking into consideration the periodicity of the universal periodic review and the outcome of the previous review.1 It is a summary of 162 stakeholders’ submissions2 for the universal periodic review, presented in a summarized manner (read more…)

Briefing Paper: Strategies for Making China’s 4th UPR Effective in Stopping Atrocity Crimes

December 15, 2023 Comments Off

As United Nations Member States prepare for China’s January 2024 UPR, they should firmly and clearly focus on the goal of making positive changes inside the country at a time when rights are under severe attack.

CHRD Submission to the UN for UPR of China

July 19, 2023 Comments Off

This report was prepared by the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), for the 4th periodic review of the People’s Republic of China. It is a summary of the information collected by CHRD since the 3rd UPR.

CHRD Civil Society Report Submitted to CEDAW

April 8, 2023 Comments Off

The Chinese government has failed to take effective measures to eliminate gender-based violence against women. As a State party to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Chinese government is flouting its obligations under the Convention, which requires States to effectively address and provide (read more…)

CHRD提交给联合国消除对妇女歧视委员会第85届会议的民间社会报告

April 8, 2023 Comments Off

中国政府没有采取有效措施来消除针对妇女的性暴力。作为《消除对妇女一切形式歧视公约》的缔约国，中国政府无视《公约》规定的义务，《公约》要求各国有效解决针对妇女和女童的基于性别的暴力（GBV）并提供有实际意义的补救措施。事实上，中国官方人员经常实施这种暴力—-从警察对女性人权维护者的性虐待到新疆的 “计划生育 “官员为防止维吾尔族人生育而实施的强制堕胎和绝育。

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。

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))

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

February 7, 2023 Comments Off

China’s Hui population in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region—numbering over a million—has been among the groups targeted by crimes against humanity in the government’s counter-terrorism campaign in the region.