RConversation: UN Human Rights Council meets on China

The UN Human Rights Council is offering a live webcast of its review of Chinese human rights at 9am Monday morning Geneva time. That's 4pm in Beijing, or 3am on the U.S. East Coast. I probably won't manage to be awake for it, but I look forward to watching the archive, and look forward to seeing the reports and reading the impressions of others who were in better time zones to watch it live. Please feel free let me know your views in the comments section of this post if you have a chance to watch it.

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Human Rights in China has a detailed position paper here.

• “Draft Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review,” UN Human Rights Council, http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/PAGES/CNSession4.aspx ;



• Human Rights in China, “China Rejects UN Recommendations for Substantive Reform to Advance Human Rights; HRIC Summary,” February 11, 2009, http://hrichina.org/public/contents/128130;



• HRIC provides four charts that track UPR recommendations:
  
  Summary Chart of Rejected UPR Recommendations [PDF, 45K]
  
  Summary Chart of Accepted UPR Recommendations [PDF, 42K]
  
  Summary Chart of UPR Recommendations Already Implemented [PDF, 18K]
  
  Summary Chart of UPR Recommendations to Be Examined [PDF, 20K]



• Human Rights in China, “China's UN Human Rights Review: New Process, Old Politics, Weak Implementation Prospects,” February 9, 2009, http://hrichina.org/public/contents/127014;



• Human Rights Council: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/;



• Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): http://www.ohchr.org;



• Human Rights Council, Universal Periodic Review (UPR): http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/UPRMain.aspx;



• China’s National Report:
  http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/Session4/CN/A_HRC_WG6_4_CHN_1_E.pdf (Eng);
  http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/Session4/CN/A_HRC_WG6_4_CHN_1%20China%20national%20report.pdf (Chi);



• Human Rights in China’s UPR Parallel NGO Report:
  http://hrichina.org/public/PDFs/Submissions/2008_HRIC_UPR_Report.pdf (Eng);
  http://big5.hrichina.org/public/PDFs/HRIC_UPR_Submission_on_China_September_2008-CHI.pdf(Chi);



• Human Rights in China’s NGO Parallel Report submitted to the Committee against Torture (CAT): http://hrichina.org/public/PDFs/Submissions/HRIC-CAT-2008-FINAL.pdf;



• Concluding Observations of the CAT: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/docs/CAT.C.CHN.CO.4.pdf;



• Chinese government’s response to the Concluding Observations of the CAT:
  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/docs/CAT.C.CHN.CO.4.pdf (Eng);

http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/docs/co/CAT-C-CHN-CO4_ch.pdf (Chi).