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Geneva, February 9 and 11, 2009
What Questions to Ask,
What Recommendations to Make
An Easy Guide for Participating Member-States, Other Stakeholders and the Media
Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD)
Directions:
For participating diplomats and delegations of UN member states
This guide facilitates your participation in the "Interactive Dialogue" with China during the Fourth Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC)'s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of China on February 9, 2009. It is prepared on the basis of documents compiled by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and CHRD's own submission to the UPR Working Group. In this guide, we also try to respond to China's National Report submitted to the HRC (A/HRC/WG.6/4/CHN/1, hereafter referred to as the National Report) for the purpose of the UPR. We have included in this list some of the most concerning areas of human rights, where improvement is wanting, and in which the Chinese state has reported "progress" in its National Report. We have tried to make each set of questions and recommendations concise and brief so they can be presented within the two minutes allocated to each delegation willing to speak during the three-hour session.
For NGOs and other stakeholders
This list can assist you in your efforts lobby the delegations from your own countries or delegations from other states, to make sure that they ask good questions about the human rights problems in China and make useful recommendations.
For the media
Reporters can ask the Chinese delegation attending the UPR in Geneva, or the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, to answer some of these questions. Reporters can also ask press secretaries or spokespersons from their own governments whether they are going to ask some questions or make recommendations from this list.
The questions and recommendations presented in this memo do not reflect the serious concerns of CHRD alone. They are the result of a synthesis of relevant UN documents compiled by the OHCHR, those produced by UN treaty bodies and special procedures and from other stakeholders, as well as CHRD's submission to the UPR working group. They are organized under 16 areas of serious concern about violation or lack of protection of human rights.
Areas of Serious Concern:
1. Respect to human rights principles and integrity of human rights
2. Protection of social and economic rights
3. Protection of freedom of the person and administrative detention
4. Torture prevention and complaint procedures
5. Right to life and the death penalty
6. Administration of justice and the rule of law
7. Workers' rights, including the right to just and favorable conditions of work
8. Discrimination against women and female children
9. Violence against women and human trafficking
10. Freedom of speech and information
11. Freedom of religion, freedom of association and peaceful assembly
12. Right to social security and to an adequate standard of living
13. Health rights and environmental rights
14. Right to adequate housing
15. Right to education
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