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Human Rights Impacts of a China Belt and Road Project in Cambodia

The 137-page report, “Underwater: Human Rights Impacts of a China Belt and Road Project in Cambodia,” documents economic, social, and cultural rights violations resulting from the Lower Sesan 2 dam’s displacement of nearly 5,000 people whose families had lived in the area for generations, as well as impacts on the livelihoods of tens of thousands of others upstream and downstream. Cambodian authorities and company officials improperly consulted with affected communities before the project’s start and largely ignored their concerns. Many were coerced into accepting inadequate compensation for lost property and income, provided with poor housing and services at resettlement sites, and given no training or assistance to secure new livelihoods. Other affected communities upstream and downstream of the dam received no compensation or assistance.

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  • "An Alleyway in Hell"

    China's Abusive "Black Jails"

    This 53-page report documents how government officials, security forces, and their agents routinely abduct people off the streets of Beijing and other Chinese cities, strip them of their possessions, and imprison them. These black jails are often located in state-owned hotels, nursing homes, and psychiatric hospitals.

  • "We Are Afraid to Even Look for Them"

    Enforced Disappearances in the Wake of Xinjiang’s Protests

    This 44-page report documents the enforced disappearances of 43 Uighur men and teenage boys who were detained by Chinese security forces in the wake of the protests.

  • An Unbreakable Cycle

    Drug Dependency Treatment, Mandatory Confinement, and HIV/AIDS in China’s Guangxi Province

    In China, illicit drug use is an administrative offense and Chinese law dictates that drug users “must be rehabilitated.” In reality, police raids on drug users often drive them underground, away from methadone clinics, needle exchange sites, and other proven HIV prevention services.

  • Appeasing China

    Restricting the Rights of Tibetans in Nepal

    This 60-page report documents numerous violations of human rights by the Nepali authorities, particularly the police, against Tibetans involved in peaceful demonstrations in Kathmandu, including: unnecessary and excessive use of force; arbitrary arrest; sexual assault of women during arrest; arbitrary and preventive dete

  • China’s Forbidden Zones

    Shutting the Media out of Tibet and Other “Sensitive” Stories

    This 71-page report draws on more than 60 interviews with correspondents in China between December 2007 and June 2008.

  • “Walking on Thin Ice”

    Control, Intimidation and Harassment of Lawyers in China

    This 142-page report details consistent patterns of abuses against legal practitioners.

  • Denied Status, Denied Education

    Children of North Korean Women in China

    This 23-page report documents how such children live without legal identity or access to elementary education. These children live in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in eastern Jilin Province, northeast China (near its border with North Korea).

  • “One Year of My Blood”

    Exploitation of Migrant Construction Workers in Beijing

    This 61-page report documents the Chinese government’s failure to fulfill long-repeated promises to protect the rights of migrant construction workers, as well as to end deprivations caused by the discriminatory nature of China’s household registration (hukou) system.

  • Down to Business

    The Human Rights Council’s Backlog of Work

    As it enters its second year, the Council must take hold of the many situations that “require the HRC’s attention,” and take action of some sort to address them. The HRC’s efforts to address these situations will provide an important indication of its ability to fulfil the purpose for which it was created.

  • “You Will Be Harassed and Detained”

    Media Freedoms Under Assault in China Ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

    This 40-page report documents how Chinese authorities have repeatedly obstructed the work of foreign journalists this year, even though China on January 1, 2007, adopted temporary regulations to comply with commitments it made to the International Olympics Committee (IOC) on guaranteeing journalists freedom.

  • “No One Has the Liberty to Refuse”

    Tibetan Herders Forcibly Relocated in Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, and the Tibet Autonomous Region

    This 79-page report documents how the government’s policy of forced resettlement has violated the economic and social rights of Tibetan herders. It draws on interviews conducted between July 2004 and December 2006 with some 150 Tibetans from the areas directly affected.

  • “A Great Danger for Lawyers”

    New Regulatory Curbs on Lawyers Representing Protesters

    This 71-page report details the “Guiding Opinions on Lawyers Handling Mass Cases,” which were introduced in March 2006, and discusses subsequently adopted local variants.

  • Race to the Bottom

    Corporate Complicity in Chinese Internet Censorship

    China’s system of Internet censorship and surveillance, popularly known as the “Great Firewall,” is the most advanced in the world.

  • Chronology of NYT researcher Zhao Yan

    Chronology of the case against Zhao Yan, the Chinese assistant at the New York Times Beijing bureau who has been accused of leaking state secrets and of lesser fraud charges. The trial is expected to begin June 8.