The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will open amid atrocity crimes and other grave human rights violations by the Chinese government, 243 nongovernmental organizations from around the world said today. The groups urged governments to join a diplomatic boycott of the Games, slated to begin February 4, 2022, and for athletes and sponsors not (read more…)
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The year 2020 in China was marked by an escalation of restrictions of freedom of expression and access to information, including in relation to COVID-19. Early in the year, authorities blocked Chinese people from sharing information about the emergence of COVID-19. This action effectively prevented information from reaching medical professionals, (read more…)
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Originally published by Newsweek on May 1, 2020 Chinese journalist Chen Jieren was found guilty and sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday, for publishing negative information about China’s Communist Party. According to the South China Morning Post, a court in the central Hunan province released a statement which said that (read more…)
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“Our impact may be large, may be small, and may be nothing. But we must try. It is our duty to the dispossessed and it is the right of civil society.” – Cao Shunli, 1961-2014 Cao Shunli was a Chinese human rights defender who unwaveringly pursued her goal to (read more…)
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Introduction Chapter 1: Relentless Persecution of Human Rights Defenders 1.1 Arbitrary Detention 1.2 Enforced Disappearances 1.3 Torture and other Cruel, Inhumane, or Degrading Treatment 1.4 Reprisals for Engaging with the International Human Rights System Chapter 2: Deteriorating Conditions for Defending Human Rights 2.1 Freedom of (read more…)
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中国残障妇女尚未享有平等权利 Women with Disabilities Still Have Unequal Rights
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农村妇女土地问题 Land Issue Concerning Rural Women
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中国妇女就业歧视状况观察报告 Report Based on Observations of the Situation of Women’s Employment Discrimination
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中国妇女在政治和公共事务决策中的代表性严重偏低 Chinese Women Seriously Unrepresented in Political and Public Decision Making.
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Appendix 1 to “CHRD & Coalition NGOs Report Submitted to CESCR”: Discriminatory Population Policies Lead to Unequal Protection of Socio-Economic Rights (Summary in English, followed by full text in Chinese) From The Center for Equal Opportunity I. Population and family planning law restricts reproduction rights The Third Plenum of the (read more…)
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