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CHRD“人权小额资助”2023年度启事

September 19, 2023 Comments Off

CHRD“人权小额资助”项目旨在为遭受迫害的人权捍卫者提供法律援助、人道援助；为维护和倡导人权的公民行动提供支持。本项目同时致力于敦促中国政府兑现《世界人权宣言》并落实已经批准加入的各项国际人权公约，推动国内法的制订和实施符合国际人权标准，以促进公民、政治、经济、社会、文化人权的保护。

“We strip you naked to crush your spirit!” –Gender-based State Violence & Reprisals against Women Human Rights Defenders in China

July 31, 2023 Comments Off

“We strip you naked to crush your spirit!” Gender-based State Violence & Reprisals against Women Human Rights Defenders in China Table of Contents Executive Summary Background Chapter 1. Gender-based Violence against Women Human Rights Defenders Chapter 2. Women Rights Defenders Face State Violence in Reprisals Chapter (read more…)

‘709 Crackdown 2.0’

July 10, 2023 Comments Off

A joint statement is calling for urgent global attention to the Chinese government’s new wave of repression against human rights lawyers unfolding over the past three months.

34th anniversary of June 4th: Chinese State Bolsters Enforced Amnesia

June 2, 2023 Comments Off

CHRD reiterates its calls on the Chinese government to allow independent investigation of the massacre, seeking truth and justice for victims and their surviving family members, and holding criminally accountable those responsible for opening fire on unarmed civilians.

CHRD urges the EU and EU member states to speak out for Yu Wensheng and Xu Yan

April 18, 2023 Comments Off

CHRD calls on the Chinese government to immediately release human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng and his wife Xu Yan, who have been criminally detained and denied access to lawyers of their choice.

Cao Zhixin (曹芷馨)

March 24, 2023 Comments Off

As Cao Zhixin’s lawyers and family are unlawfully being prevented from seeing her, Cao remains in incommunicado detention, and as such, is at high risk of torture and other ill-treatment.

WILL THE HUI BE SILENTLY ERASED?——A groundbreaking report on the Chinese government’s campaign to eliminate Hui Muslim identity and the crisis of survival for the Hui and Islam in China

March 22, 2023 Comments Off

The Hui are the second largest minority group in China, with a population of 11.4 million.1 Although this is greater than the population of Portugal, the Hui are an unfamiliar group to most outside of China. Yet over centuries, they have persisted in maintaining distinct communities and practices centered around (read more…)

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

March 15, 2023 Comments Off

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 protect, promote and implement all human (read more…)

December 1, 2022 – Communication from 4 UN Special Procedures to the Chinese Government regarding Huang Xueqin, Wang Jianbing, He Fangmei, Yang Maodong, and Tang Jitian

January 31, 2023 Comments Off

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China Must End Reprisals against Protestors, Investigate Urumqi Fire, Free Detainees

December 2, 2022 Comments Off

We at CHRD are seriously concerned that detained protestors are at high risk of being forcibly disappeared and subjected to torture and deprivation of due process rights.

China: End ideological “Zero COVID” and put human life and dignity first

November 16, 2022 Comments Off

CHRD urges the Chinese government to scrap any unnecessarily burdensome and harmful measures and immediately end the “Zero COVID” policy.

OPEN LETTER

October 6, 2022 Comments Off

Almost three years have passed since the due date (9 December 2019) of the PRC’s latest State party report to the UN Committee Against Torture. We are writing on behalf of the people in the PRC, and human rights defenders worldwide, to request the submission of the above-mentioned report without (read more…)