National Human Rights Action Pland Human Rights Education

On April 13, 2009, the Information Office of the State Council （IOSC） published the National Human Rights Action Plan of China （2009-2010）, which caused a widespread repercussion in China and the world over and won favorable comments. It was generally acknowledged that the publication and implementation of the Action Plan would help the entire Chinese society enhance its awareness of human rights protection and usher in an all- round development of China＇s human rights cause.     

Promoting Human Rights

Editor's note: The following is the full speech by Minister of the State Council Information O ce Wang Chen at the opening ceremony of the Third Beijing Human Rights Forum on Oct. 19.Your Excellency President Luo Haocai, Distinguished guests, ladies, gentlemen and friends,Good morning!On     

中国共产党对推进中国人权事业的伟大贡献

人权的根本问题 ,是人在自然界和人类社会的生存权和发展权 ,亦即人类真正掌握自己命运的权利。人类对自己命运的掌握是同人类自身的生存、发展和完善紧密相连的 ,这包括政治、经济、文化、教育等诸多方面。中国共产党领导人民从自己的历史和国情出发 ,根据长期的实践经验 ,形成了具有广泛、公平、真实特性的人权理论 ,并在革命和建设过程中付之实践 ,从而极大地推进了中国的人权建设事业。     

中共十八大进一步丰富了中国特色社会主义人权理论

从2008年以来,我们已在五年时间里连续五次在中国北京举办北京人权论坛,就国际人权领域大家共同关心的话题发表意见,坦诚交流。五年时间,只是短暂一瞬,而我们却通过北京人权论坛这一平等、开放的平台,凝聚了智慧,促进了了解,扩大了共识,增进了友谊。北京人权论坛的举办,顺应了当今时代的发展要     

Advancing Human Rights

Editor’s note:Amid the country’s ongoing efforts to work out the National Human Rights ActionPlan of China(2012-2015),WangChen,minister of the State Council Information Office, gave an interview to Xinhua News Agency on Wednesday about the new program. The following are excerpts of what he said:     

中国人权事业的进步与发展有目共睹

The following is the full speech by Minister of the State Council Information Office Wang Chen at the opening ceremony of the Third Beijing Human Rights Forum on Oct. 19.     

Human Rights Improving

The Chiilege Government released a white paper on its human rights in 2009 on September 26,highlighting the role of Intemet freedom and the country's efforts in safeguarding citizens'legitimate civil and political rights.     

Human Rights Guaranteed

<正>Report says China’s human rights plan successfully implemented According to a detailed assessment report published by China’s State Council Information Office (SCIO),all the measures outlined in the National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2009-10) had been successfully put into place by the end of 2010.     

让孩子们坐进安全的校舍—四川省峨边彝族自治县抓教育重务实

＂Human rights education has, over the past decade, received increasingly great international attention.What merits special mention are those massive activities on-going in various countries to promote it, which constitute a most salient feature of the global human rights cause.     

Human Rights Education in the Perspective of International Human Rights Law

In a statement issued on the 2004 World Human Rights Day, Ms. Louse Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, described human rights education as a strategy for attainment of "human rights for all," as a basic means for developing a universal culture of human rights, as an instrument for promoting equality and involvement of the people in decision-mak-ing under democratic mechanisms, and as an investment to prevent infringements upon human rights and to ward off conflicts of violence. It should be noted that so much importance attached by UN human rights organ to human rights education epitomizes the empowering characters of human rights education and the functions it performs in the global human rights system.     

International Human Rights Mechanism and Construction of Harmonious Human Rights Relations

The international human rights mechanism is a product of the pursuit for peace and justice of the human society.As the core values of the internation- al human rights mechanism,the universal human rights standards provide the international community with a basic path of human rights development in different countries.In recent years a limited few of countries have utilized the universal human rights standards to promote their own strategic wills,and interfere in the     

Human Dignity and Human Rights Protection

Learning from the painful lessons of the World War II,human rights theory rediscovered the value of human dignity,and made the protection of human dignity the basis and purpose of human rights protection.Any abuse of human rights is an infringement on human dignity.How human dignity is respected and valued is a measure of a society’s human rights situation.Human rights will     

Internet and Human Rights

When discussing the relationship between the Internet and human rights,we need to have a broad exploration of human rights issues across the current media environment,featuring rapidly growing technologies and increasingly extensive applications.It is worth emphasizing that,since the Internet and its related applications are still under development,with Chinese society at a transitional stage,it is important for us to look at these issues with a dynamic view and handle human rights concerning the Internet in an     

River and Human Rights

Nothing is like a river. It seems coming from nowhere, far back into antiquity. It is originated from drops of water and converged into a long stream that flows ceaselessly. It benefits the vast expanse of land and nourishes all the living on it.     

Review of Human Rights

<正>China issues its 12th report on the rights enjoyed by its citizens On June 8,China issued a white paper on human rights within its borders,the 12th such report since 1991.The report,published by the State Council Information Office under the title Progress in China’s Human Rights in 2014,details the steps China has made in protecting people’s rights over the past year.The paper comprises nine categories:Right to Development;Rights of the Person;     

Values and Human Rights

Values and the view of human rights are the concepts in the superstructure that belong to the category of morality category. So-called value refers to people’s attitude towards the choice between material wealth and spiritual wealth. Specifically speaking, it reflects the interests, demands, psychological and behavioral orientation of certain subjects. it is the inward rule which is used by people to measure the value of things, judge whether they are good or not     

Human Rights Index 2014

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浅谈人权的国际保护

人权保护是自二战后全面进入国际法领域的,国际人权保护现今已经是国际人权活动中的一项重要内容。在半个多世纪的发展过程中,国际人权的保护在领域上不断扩大、保护机制上逐渐完善。但是我们要清醒地认识到人权保障的实现仍是一个漫长和艰难的历史过程。     

More Tangible Human Rights

正At the 47th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council(UNHRC),which opened on June21,more than 90 countries expressed their support for China in regard to its stance on human rights.The vote of support thwarted attempts on the part of several Western countries to trip up China' s development by fueling misleading rumors about China' s overall human rights situation.     

Optimize the Environment for Human Rights Development and Boost Sustainable Human Rights Development

Human rights are not isolated; rather, they are human rights situated in the soci- ety, the network interwoven with economy, politics, society, culture and so on, and human rights protection has to depend upon certain interior and exterior environments and institutional arrangement. As early as in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has pointed out, ＂Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.＂ The realization of human rights not only involves the claim to rights themselves,