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    China’s new leadership assumed power in November, ending the decade-long reign of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao. China’s citizens had no say in the selection of their new leaders, highlighting that, despite the country’s rapid modernization, the government remains an authoritarian one-party system. The government curbs freedom of expression, association, and religion, and controls all judicial institutions. It censors the press and enforces highly repressive policies in ethnic minority areas in Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia. At the same time, citizens are increasingly prepared to challenge authorities over issues such as land seizures, forced evictions, abuses of power by corrupt cadres, discrimination, and economic inequalities.
  • Local residents walk past a row of newly built houses at Jiangcun Village in Chushur (Qushui) County, Tibet Autonomous Region, January 2006.
    © 2006 Associated Press
    China: End Involuntary Rehousing, Relocation of Tibetans
    The Chinese government is subjecting millions of Tibetans to a policy of mass rehousing and relocation that radically changes their way of life, and about which they have no say.
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  • China: End Involuntary Rehousing, Relocation of Tibetans
    Jun 27, 2013
    The Chinese government is subjecting millions of Tibetans to a policy of mass rehousing and relocation that radically changes their way of life, and about which they have no say.
  • EU/China: Overhaul Human Rights Dialogues
    Jun 24, 2013
    The 32nd round of the European Union (EU)-China Human Rights Dialogue further lowers the bar for effective, principled human rights diplomacy.
  • Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 20 June
    Jun 20, 2013
  • Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 19 June
    Jun 19, 2013
  • China: ‘Benefit the Masses’ Campaign Surveilling Tibetans
    Jun 18, 2013
    The Chinese government, under the rationale of a campaign to improve rural living standards, has sent more than 20,000 officials and communist party cadres to Tibetan villages to undertake intrusive surveillance of people, carry out widespread political re-education, and establish partisan security units.
  • China: Crackdown on Anticorruption Activists Escalates
    Jun 9, 2013
    More than a dozen anti-corruption activists in Beijing and Jiangxi Province were detained between late March and late May after participating in or organizing demonstrations calling for government officials to publicly disclose their assets, China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group, Committee to Support Chinese Lawyers, Front Line Defenders, Human Rights Watch, and Independent Chinese PEN said today. The Chinese government should release the anticorruption activists and drop all charges against them, the organizations said.
  • Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 7 June 2013
    Jun 7, 2013
    The news at the moment is dominated by the PRISM scandal...
  • Obama Should Talk Rights to Xi at California Summit
    Jun 6, 2013
    U.S. President Barack Obama has been the recipient of a fair amount of practical advice about promoting human rights in China: Be clear and principled in your first meeting; raise individual cases; link human rights to other issues, such as trade, that are important to Chinese leaders; and let those officials know that human rights will come up at every summit and every high-level meeting, whether with the U.S. trade representative, the energy secretary, or the secretary of defense. Above all, he has been told, don't fall into the trap of imagining that unilateral concessions or personal relationships can move policy on issues of strategic importance in Beijing, where government remains a collective and hard-line enterprise.
  • World Environment Day: a day like any other for Abigail Chombo
    Jun 5, 2013
    When basic human rights, like the rights to life, health, food, information, justice, participation and assembly are not respected, the global environmental movement loses a critical ally -- citizens around the world for whom the protection of rights and the environment are one and the same. In violating their rights, the marginalization of many of these people limits their ability to affect positive environmental change.
  • China: US Should Back Rights Reforms at California Summit
    Jun 5, 2013
    President Obama should make human rights central in his discussions with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the two countries’ June 7-8 summit in California.
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