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The International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) publishes yearly four Chinese Human Rights Monitors (CHRM), aiming to support Chinese human rights defenders and civil society working on human rights in China in acceding to the UN human rights mechanisms.
This is the 2nd 2020 Edition!
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First and foremost, we hope you and your loved ones have remained healthy, safe, and have found the support needed during these times of hardship. The Covid-19 crisis has had significant consequences on the work of human rights defenders, but many worldwide have swiftly organized and responded to the crisis to ensure fundamental rights were protected. It has also impacted the work of the UN human rights mechanisms, some having to temporarily pause part of their work.
Yet, the UN experts have not remained silent: they have strived to ensure the world did not turn a blind eye to human rights abuses in China, by speaking out and sending letters to the Government on criminal charges against a jailed Tibetan activist; the arrest of 15 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, the inappropriate use of chemical agents and arrest of healthcare workers during the city’s mass protests, as well as Hong Kong’s flawed counter-terrorism legislation; the disappearance of Gao Zhisheng and detention of Shao Zhongguo; and the arbitrary detention over Christmas of Ding Jiaxi, Zhang Zhongshun and Dai Zhenya.
We are delighted to launch the 2nd edition of the Chinese Human Rights Monitor 2020, in order to support human rights defenders and civil society organisations better understand how to cooperate and make strategic use of the UN human rights mechanisms.
This bilingual publication gathers ISHR’s Human Rights Monitors China-related content, while closely monitoring the Chinese government within the UN human rights spaces, and providing opportunities to civil society for UN engagement around issues of human rights in China.
This 2nd edition is comprised of:
1) The UN needs you! Upcoming opportunities to protect human rights at the UN (June 2020 update)
2) Human rights in China at the UN
ISHR and HRW joint statement: UN rights body needs to step up on Xinjiang abuses
End disappearances of Chinese human rights activists, say UN experts
3) Supporting human rights defenders
COVID-19 l State action must be human rights compliant and protect human rights defenders
Wang Quanzhang should be free to join his family
ISHR launches bilingual explainer on rights of workers exposed to toxic substances
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A newly-released confidential letter by a UN Special Rapporteur documents the disbarment of human rights lawyers in China and the tightening ideological control over lawyers and law firms. The UN expert denounces disappearances, closed-door trials, harassment of relatives, travel bans, and other abuses targeting human rights lawyers.
On Tuesday 16 April 2024, ISHR delivered to both Geneva’s Administrative Council and its legislative counterpart, the Municipal Council, physical copies of the more than 1000 signatures collected in support of a memorial honouring Chinese human rights defender Cao Shunli.
The 79th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights will be held in Banjul, The Gambia, from 14 May to 3 June 2024. The session will be preceded by the NGO Forum, which will be held in hybrid format from the 11-13 May 2024.
