The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) Concluding observations on the combined third and fourth periodic reports of China, adopted by the Committee at its sixty-fourth session (16 September–4 October 2013) Symbol No. CRC/ C/CHN/CO/3-4 The Committee is deeply disturbed by an alarming escalation of self-immolations by Tibetan children and the State party’s failure to prevent such loss…
The Committee Against Torture (CAT) Concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of China (3 February 2016) Symbol No. CAT/C/CHN/CO/5 The Committee regrets that the recommendations identified for follow-up in the previous concluding observations have not yet been implemented. Those recommendations concerned: legal safeguards to prevent torture; the State Secrets Law and reported harassment of lawyers, human rights defenders and…
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) Concluding observations on the second periodic report of China (13 June 2014) Symbol No. E/ C.12/CHN/CO/2 The Committee remains concerned about reports of the high rate of unemployment among persons belonging to ethnic minorities, especially Tibetans, Uighurs and Inner Mongolians, in part due to Han Chinese migration into minority areas. The…
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) Concluding observations on the combined fourteenth to seventeenth periodic reports of China (19 September 2018) Symbol No. CERD/C/CHN/CO/14-17 The Committee is concerned by reports that the broad definition of terrorism, the vague references to extremism and the unclear definition of separatism in Chinese laws could potentially lead to the criminalization of…