China cherishes the important role played by international instruments on human rights in promoting and protecting human rights. So far, China has acceded to 25 international conventions on human rights. China will earnestly fulfill its obligations to those conventions, submit timely reports on implementing the conventions to the treaty bodies concerned, hold constructive dialogues with these treaty bodies, take into full consideration the proposals raised by them, and adopt rational and feasible ones in the light of China's actual conditions.

 

- Completed the second report on implementing the "International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights," and submitted it to the treaty bodies concerned for consideration.

 

- Completed the 7th and 8th combined report on implementing the "Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women," and submitted it to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women for consideration.

 

- Completed the 3rd and 4th combined report on implementing the "Convention on the Rights of the Child," and submitted it to the Committee on the Rights of the Child for consideration.

 

- Completed the first report on implementing the "Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict," and submitted it to the Committee on the Rights of the Child for consideration.

 

- Completed the latest report on implementing the "Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography," included it in the 3rd and 4th combined report on implementing the "Convention on the Rights of the Child," and submitted them together to the Committee on the Rights of the Child for consideration.

 

- Completed the first report on implementing the "Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities," and submitted it to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for consideration.

 

- Participated in the deliberation meeting held by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on China's 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th combined report submitted in accordance with the "International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination."

 

- China has signed the "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)," and will continue legislative, judicial and administrative reforms to make domestic laws better linked with this Covenant, and prepare the ground for approval of the ICCPR.

 

- Earnestly executed the "United Nations Anti-Corruption Convention," and worked hard to link the Convention to domestic laws.

By:National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2009-2010)