Introduction

The 52nd regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council was held between February 27 and April 4, 2023. Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang addressed at a high-level segment of the session via video link, comprehensively introducing China's vision and measures on human rights, elaborating on China's proposals on global human rights governance, and contributing Chinese wisdom to the sound development of the international human rights cause. During the session, Representatives from the China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS) and some other NGOs held sideline events on a series of topics, including Xinjiang, Xizang and women's rights.

Chinese FM's remarks at UN Human Rights Council meeting

China will contribute to global human rights governance: Chinese FM

FM: Nation to take own path on human rights

China will keep following its own path of human rights development and opposes using human rights as a pretext for interference and containment, Foreign Minister Qin Gang said in a UN address on February 27. China has found a path that meets the trend of the times and suits its national conditions, which is key to its historic achievements in human rights, Qin said in his address to the high-level segment of the 52nd Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.[more..]

No single template can secure human rights, China's foreign minister says

The protection of human rights should be managed in a different fashion in different countries, China's foreign minister Qin Gang said as he criticized countries who portray themselves as judges of others' behavior. [more..]
Sideline events of the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council

CSHRS experts refute disinformation on Xinjiang, Xizang at UNHRC

People from China have the final say on what the country's human rights situation is and a group of experts from a nongovernmental organization in China introduced the practices of China's human rights at a sideline event of the ongoing 52nd session of the Human Rights Council with some experts of ethnic minorities refuting some Western media's disinformation on China's Xizang and Xinjiang regions.[more..]

Chinese groups take part in human rights talks in Geneva

Representatives from international and non-governmental organizations from China and abroad attended a forum in Geneva on March 14 to discuss the participation of non-governmental organizations in the promotion of human rights protection and global development.[more..]

Experts give testimony on women's rights at HRC session

CSHRS experts make speeches at sideline meetings

Three-dimensional Chinese development

Protection and Development of Culture in Xinjiang

Mahemuti Abuduwaili, deputy Dean of Institute of History, Xinjiang Academy of Social Science made a speech at at a sideline meeting of the ongoing 52nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.[more..]

Boarding Schools System of Xizang

Zhaluo, director at Institute of Social Economy of China Tibetology Research Centermade a speech at at a sideline meeting of the ongoing 52nd session of the UNHRC. Recently, the international media paid attention to boarding schools in China's Xizang Autonomous Region and made diverse comments in this regard. Today, I would like to talk about the true situation of Xizang's boarding schools from the following three perspectives. [more..]
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