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China’s Disqualifying Human Rights Record: UPR Mid-Term Assessment Finds China Unfit for Human Rights Council Membership
The Chinese government has failed to protect and promote human rights in any meaningful way and has exploited the United Nations Universal Periodic Review process.
Our UPR mid-term assessment supports the calls from international NGOs and independent UN experts for UN member states to establish an independent international mechanism,
such as such a UN Special Rapporteur, a Panel of Experts appointed by the Human Rights Council (HRC), or a Secretary General Special Envoy, to address the Chinese government’s human rights violations.
During China’s 3rd UPR, member states made 346 recommendations in November 2018. China accepted 284 of these recommendations in March 2019. CHRD focused its examination on the 58 recommendations that China “accepted” and
also declared it had “already implemented” (47 recommendations) or were “being implemented” (11 recommendations).
China has still not adopted a specific and comprehensive anti-discrimination law. Women have continued to face gender-based discrimination in employment. LGBTQI+ people have continued to face discrimination at home, at work,
in schools and in public and China did not legalize same-sex marriage when adopting the Civil Code in 2020, despite pushes by activists. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there were numerous report of discriminatory treatment towards African migrants.
Two years after its 3rd Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in November 2018, China has not fully implemented any of the 58 recommendations that it claimed to have “accepted” and had “already implemented” or were “being implemented,” according to an assessment by CHRD released today
Since the 2018 UPR, under the increasingly draconian rule of XJP, the CN govt has escalated human rights repression, in particular, in its crackdown on critics of the government’s handling of COVID-19 pandemic, persecution of ethnic religious minorities in Xinjiang and Tibet
CN’s persistent failure to cooperate with the UN human rights system and blatant disregard for human rights clearly disqualifies the country for a seat on the HRC. China has demonstrably violated the Council’s founding principles and does not measure up to its membership criteria
