China Promotes Human Rights StudiesA senior human rights expert said Thursday that China has shaped theories and viewpoints with Chinese characteristics on the issue of human rights.In an interview with Xinhua, Dong Yunhu, vice president of the China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS), said that the rights to independence, survival and development are principal human rights. Improving the global human rights situation cannot be done without taking into consideration actual conditions of various countries in the world, Dong said. China also promotes dialogue instead of confrontation in the field of international human rights, and opposes intervention in any other country's internal affairs under the pretext of human rights principles, Dong said. China's stand on human rights has got more and more support from various countries in the world, especially those developing nations. In promoting the rights to survival and development, China has contributed to the world human rights cause in today's world, Dong said. After establishing the China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS) in 1993, China has formed dozens of research bodies on human rights. The society organized a group of specialists to compile China's Human Rights Almanac, which details the Chinese people's achievements in this regard. Meanwhile, Sichuan People's Publishing House produced the World Documents of Human Rights and its supplement, and the Encyclopedia of Human Rights, which are regarded as pioneers of research in the field. The Chinese government has actively sponsored human rights studies of many academic bodies. In addition, various research bodies organized hundreds of talks and symposiums in the past couple of years. The CSHRS held the International Symposium on World Human Rights Towards the 21st Century in October 1998 and a commemorative meeting marking the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in December the same year. Since 1995, the Information Office of the State Council has released 12 white papers on human rights, expounding on the real conditions of human rights in the world and China's basic viewpoints on some important issues. Furthermore, the CSHRS helps spread information of human rights to the people in China. Up till now, most of the nation's universities and research bodies have held lectures on human rights which provided international human rights theories to Chinese students and scholars. |
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