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  Human Rights - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Human rights refers to legal and ethical standards of behavior and principles of entitlement that have acquired, within the political and legal system of a country or of multilateral institutions, a status of enhanced expectation of compliance due to their essential importance in achieving justice within that society.
Rights may also be non-derogable (not limited in times of National Emergency)—these often include the right to life, the right to be prosecuted only according to the laws that are in existence at the time of the offence, the right to be free from slavery, and the right to be free from torture.
Human rights are typically divided into two categories: negative human rights (rights to be free from) and positive (rights to) although other categorisations exist.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /human_rights.htm   (1709 words)

  
 Human rights in China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The U.S. State Department's annual People's Republic of China human rights reports have noted the PRC's well-documented abuses of human rights in violation of internationally recognized norms, stemming both from the authorities' intolerance of dissent and the inadequacy of legal safeguards for basic freedoms.
At the same time, mainland China's economic growth and reform since 1978 has improved dramatically the lives of hundreds of millions of Chinese, increased social mobility and expanded the scope of personal freedom.
However, the United States and western human rights groups assert that there has been virtually no movement on these promises, and that the PRC still has a long way to go in instituting the kind of fundamental systemic change that will protect the rights and liberties of all its citizens.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/h/hu/human_rights_in_china.html   (450 words)

  
 Derechos HR: Human Rights in China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
China is an authoritarian state in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the paramount source of power.
Human Rights violations are widespread and well-documented, and they stem from the authorities' intolerance of dissent, fear of unrest, and the absence or inadequacy of laws protecting basic freedoms.
Derechos Human Rights works for the respect and promotion of human rights, international humanitarian law and the right to privacy all over the world, as well as against impunity for human rights violators.
www.derechos.org /human-rights/nasia/china   (163 words)

  
 Human Rights in China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The polarization of human rights issues in U.S.-Chinese relations often obscures the fact that both the Chinese state and society are in a process of incremental but remarkable change, which has afforded ordinary citizens unprecedented personal freedom, although it doesn't promise an immediate transition to democracy.
Human rights advocacy is inclined to take the pulse of societies under authoritarian rule on a daily basis.
U.S. policymakers and human rights groups tend to champion a few Chinese individuals outside the system who articulate Western values on democracy and human rights, in the belief that they are the future leaders of a more democratic China.
www.brookings.edu /comm/policybriefs/pb50.htm   (3195 words)

  
 Human Rights in China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the non-governmental organization promoting human rights in the People's Republic of China.
For an overview of the human rights situation there, see human rights in the People's Republic of China.
Human Rights in China (HRIC; Traditional Chinese: 中國人權; Simplified Chinese: 中国人权; pinyin: Zhōngguó Rénquán) is a non-governmental organization based in New York City whose stated aim is "to promote universally recognized human rights and advance the institutional protection of these rights in the People's Republic of China".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Human_rights_in_China   (132 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch: Asia : China and Tibet
China’s government, through a series of Party policies and government regulations, including the March 1, 2005 “Regulations on Religious Affairs,” sharply curtails both freedom of religious belief and the freedom to express one’s belief.
The Chinese government is directing a crushing campaign of religious repression against China’s Muslim Uighurs in the name of anti-separatism and counter-terrorism, Human Rights Watch and Human Rights in China said in a new report today.
The Commission on Human Rights should adopt a resolution condemning China for violations of rights to free expression, association and assembly, religion and belief; for repression of minorities in Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia; and for continuing rights abuses related to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
hrw.org /doc?t=asia&c=china   (1272 words)

  
 CTPS Articles: Improving Human Rights in China by James Dorn
A better approach is to continue to open China to the outside world and, at the same time, use non-trade sanctions and diplomacy to advance human rights.
When China violates trade agreements or intellectual property rights, however, it should be held accountable, and carefully targeted trade sanctions may be warranted.
China has been a major offender of copyright laws and needs to comply with the rule of law.
www.freetrade.org /pubs/articles/jd-2-8-99.html   (849 words)

  
 China (includes Tibet, Hong Kong, and Macau)
Although legal reforms continued, there was backsliding on key human rights issues during the year, including arrests of individuals discussing sensitive subjects on the Internet, health activists, labor protesters, defense lawyers, journalists, house church members, and others seeking to take advantage of the space created by reforms.
Citizens did not have the right peacefully to change their government, and many who openly expressed dissenting political views were harassed, detained, or imprisoned.
Criminal punishments could include "deprivation of political rights" for a fixed period after release from prison, during which the individual is denied the limited rights of free speech and association granted to other citizens.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27768.htm   (17929 words)

  
 Human Rights in China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The State Department's annual human rights report on China is part of a larger requirement mandated by Congress for the Department to report on the human rights of every country that is a member of the United Nations.
The format follows the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; although the focus has traditionally been on political and civil rights in the reports, increasingly cultural and social rights are monitored as well.
It is important to separate human rights advocacy from the human rights record of individual countries.
www.brook.edu /comm/events/human_rights_page.htm   (2143 words)

  
 China Unique Human Rights in China
Human Rights is a major issue in the People's Republic of China(PRC).
While we may say human rights is the ability to have our own beliefs, in the literal we can always have our own beliefs.
It is from this restriction that Human rights is abused.
www.chinaunique.com /educate/hrights.htm   (452 words)

  
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China's laws restricting contact with foreign coreligionists, prohibiting parents from exposing children under the age of 18 to religion, and outlawing nongovernment-controlled churches violate the UN Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief.
Few legal safeguards exist in China to ensure fair trials, and the judicial system is controlled at every level by CCP political-legal committees that may determine the outcome of cases before the court hears evidence presented at trial.
Legal scholars within China have called for an end to this widespread practice of "verdict first, trial second." With the political-legal committees exercising extensive control, detainees are highly unlikely to receive fair, impartial hearings that are free from official manipulation.
www.christusrex.org /www1/sdc/hr_facts.html   (3106 words)

  
 ABC News: Rumsfeld to China: openness can ease security fears   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
China's prosperity and other countries' attitudes about the nation "may well depend on internal political events here," Rumsfeld said to cadres at the Central Party School in Beijing, where communist leaders are groomed.
Rumsfeld is trying to use his first trip to China as U.S. defense chief to both boost bilateral military ties and register the Pentagon's concerns about the rapid growth and secrecy of the Chinese military.
Rumsfeld was echoing a speech he made in Singapore in June in which he said China's rapid military expansion was upsetting the balance of power in Asia, where the United States maintains key alliances with South Korea and Japan.
abcnews.go.com /US/wireStory?id=1228357   (362 words)

  
 CTPS Articles: Advancing Human Rights in China by James Dorn
Denying China normal trading status, in order to penalize its leaders for human rights violations, would be counter-productive to the values this country stands for.
Although much remains to be done in China to protect individual rights, isolating China from the West would be disastrous.
A more constructive way to change China, says Li, is to involve private enterprise in the process of bringing about greater personal freedom.
www.freetrade.org /pubs/articles/jd-7-10-99.html   (667 words)

  
 Terralingua -- Sign Languages, and How the Deaf (and other Sign language users) are Deprived of their Linguistic Human ...
Human rights, especially economic and social rights, are, according to human rights lawyer Katarina Toma_evski (1996: 104), to act as correctives to the free market.
The purpose of international human rights law is...to overrule the law of supply and demand and remove price tags from people and from necessities for their survival.
So far, human rights instruments and discussions about both them and about educational language rights have not even started addressing these big questions in a coherent way where all types of ecology would be discussed within an integrated political and economic framework.
www.terralingua.org /DeafHR.html   (6711 words)

  
 Ming the Mechanic: U.S. Human Rights Report ... by China
Oh, China has its own set of lines which certainly are more restrictive than those in the U.S. And, yes, newspapers, books, magazines and TV are censored in the U.S. But by different mechanisms than how it is done in an overtly totalitarian state.
Human rights are abused in every place on the planet, the abuser is anyone, and everyone.
The point was the human rights problems in the U.S. That it was gathered by representatives of a country that has a huge list of problems of its own does not invalidate it.
ming.tv /flemming2.php/__show_article/_a000010-001489.htm   (3912 words)

  
 China (includes Tibet, Hong Kong, and Macau)
The Government's violation of internationally accepted human rights norms stemmed from the authorities' extremely limited tolerance of public dissent, fear of unrest, and the limited scope or inadequate implementation of laws protecting basic freedoms.
The human rights situation in Tibet and in some ethnically Tibetan regions outside Tibet also remained poor, and the Government continued to impose restrictions on some forms of religious practice (see Tibet Addendum).
Criminal punishments could include "deprivation of political rights" for a fixed period after release from prison, during which the individual is denied the rights of free speech and association granted to other citizens.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18239.htm   (17630 words)

  
 Amnesty International - Working To Protect Human Rights Worldwide
Human rights activists around the world tell their stories about violence against women in interviews with Amnesty International.
Violence against women is the greatest human rights scandal of our times.
Economic actors are accountable for the human rights impact of their activities.
www.amnesty.org   (292 words)

  
 Totally Whacked: Human Rights in China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Although Amnesia International is mostly run by a cabal of anti-American neo-adolescent leftists, they still occassionally do a reasonable job of detailing human rights violations in various countries.
China's human rights record remains extremely poor, and there are few signs that the authorities are willing to make the fundamental legal and institutional changes necessary to address the serious and widespread abuses which have continued across the country over the last 15 years.
Over the past years web-sites of human rights organisations, including Amnesty International, and several international news sites have been regularly blocked by government-controlled routers.
www.daverodrigues.com /archives/000293.html   (417 words)

  
 The China programme - Norwegian Centre of Human Rights
The Norwegian Institute of Human Rights (NIHR) was invited by the Foreign Ministry to submit a proposal for developing a "China and the Rule of Law" program in late 1996 (hereafter China Program).
The China Program activities are primarily funded on an annual basis by the Foreign Ministry’s Department for Human Rights, Humanitarian Assistance and Democracy.
working with current themes in the human rights field, such as open government legislation, domestic violence and promotion of good practice in local elections.
www.humanrights.uio.no /forskning/programmer/kina/introlong.html   (544 words)

  
 OLYMPIC WATCH: Human Rights in China and Beijing 2008
Our mission is to monitor the human rights situation in the People's Republic of China and to campaign for its improvement before Beijing is to host the 2008 Summer Olympics.
More than five hundred Chinese human rights activists, both exiles and dissidents inside the PRC, have signed an open letter to the European Union, calling on it to maintain its embargo on arms exports to China until the PRC respects human rights.
They note that Beijing needs to uphold international human rights standards and reevaluate the 1989 pro-democacy movement, for whose brutal suppression the embargo was imposed.
www.olympicwatch.org   (361 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch - Censorship - China - Beijing Olympics 2008
China seems to allow free expression only until officials decide that it has become threatening to the government’s power.
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which China has signed but has not yet ratified, protects the right to hold opinions without interference, the right to information and the right to free expression.
The use of the Internet to mobilize for social change was demonstrated in 2003, when thousands of Chinese citizens around the country took to the web to protest the death of migrant worker Sun Zhigang in police custody.
www.humanrightswatch.org /campaigns/china/beijing08/censorship.htm   (958 words)

  
 China - Amnesty International
Tens of thousands of people continued to be detained or imprisoned in violation of their rights to freedom of expression and association, and were at serious risk of torture or ill-treatment.
The rights of freedom of expression and association of workers’ representatives continued to be severely curtailed and independent trade unions remained illegal.
China continued to deny North Koreans access to any refugee determination procedures despite evidence that many had a genuine claim to asylum and in breach of the UN Refugee Convention to which China is a state party.
web.amnesty.org /report2004/chn-summary-eng   (2621 words)

  
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Human rights are something most people feel should be protected, but disagreements still arise about the particular nature of rights and the appropriate instruments for protecting these.
Selections from China Rights Forum, Spring 1996: "Lost Cause: The struggle to expose abuses of Shanghai's orphans"; "Who is to Blame for High Death Rates in Orphanages?"; "As school fees rise, more children are sent to work"; "'Protections' fail to protect: China's implementation of the rights of the child".
On the Human Rights of the United States and Its Human Rights Report by the Information Office of the State Council of the P.R.C.
www.stanford.edu /~kafka/syllabus.html   (1635 words)

  
 Human_rights_in_China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The situation of human rights in the People's Republic of China has been criticized by various sources, including other nations - particularly Western democracies - as well as international organizations, as being poor in many respects.
The PRC government argues that the PRC does have significant human rights problems including impartial access to the courts, the use of torture, and lack of due process.
Human Rights In China (http://www.hrichina.org/) - International NGO based in New York and Hong Kong
www.comicscomics.com /search.php?title=Human_rights_in_China   (913 words)

  
 Human Rights in China
Violations of human rights, political and intellectual repression, mass arrests, summary executions, persecutions of dissenters, and so on, were perpetrated for nearly twenty years before the "Gang of Four's" accession to power, and now they continue after the "Gang's" disgrace.
But the first of all human rights is to survive, to be free from hunger.
The economic takeoff has not yet been achieved: China is still in a marginal situation, not yet secure from potential starvation, always vulnerable to the menace of successive bad harvests or other natural catastrophes.
www.tsquare.tv /themes/LeysHRts.html   (5185 words)

  
 Chinese Human Rights Web
A partially annotated bibliography of secondary sources on historical and contemporary human rights issues in and related to China.
Essays from a 1991 conference on human rights in China, in Chinese translation.
She is the author of Debating human rights in China: a conceptual and political history (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002).
www.chinesehumanrightsreader.org   (630 words)

  
 Human Rights in China
Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that Shanghai petitioner Xu Zhengqing has been sentenced to three years in prison on a charge of “disrupting public order.”
Xu Zhengqing is a long-time petitioner who has been subjected to constant persecution by the authorities as a result of his outspoken views.
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organization, Human Rights in China (HRIC), denounce the decision of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), a process...
iso.hrichina.org   (141 words)

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