On the Relationship Between Human Rights Protection and the Modernization of State Governance

The protection of human rights inherently related to modern state-governance.On the one hand,human rights protection is the foundation and criteria for modern state-governance,characterized by democracy,rule of law and civility,with human rights as a cross-cutting theme in all these elements.On the other hand,human rights protection provides conditions and motives for modernizing state governance.Human rights are pursued as a fundamental value in modern state-governance.Human rights protection is also a driving force for good governance and a touchstone for the modernity of governance.     

Human Rights: Signal of Human Beings from Necessity to Freedom

正The issue of human rights is one of the essential issues in modern political life and state life.The term"human rights",as it is so called,refers to the rights of human beings dealing with the questions arising during the process of human beings from necessity to freedom.The key to master the concept of human rights is how to define the rights.In ac-     

Respect for Human Rights： a Fundamental Foundation for a World of Peace, Security and Harmony

Peace, security, harmonious development and human rights are closely related. Firstly, peace and security are premise and precondition for the insur-ance of human rights. It is obvious that when human beings continue to be threat-ening by wars, conflicts and chaos, their right to life is faint and insecure, and other human rights would not be fully respected or protected. On the other hand, peace and security are foundation for everyone to pursue his or her own objectives. In other words, in a society where peace and secu-rity are maitained, people will have oppor-tunity to enjoy their human rights and to affirm their own ego.     

Continuity and Variability in China’s Acknowledgement of International Human Rights Norms

Since the beginning of the era of reform and opening up,and particularly since the beginning of the 21st century,China has achieved great progress in its human rights cause and has made great contributions to the global human rights cause.On the one hand,China,with its growing economic     

On Preservation and Development of Minority Cultural Rights in Globalization

Culture is a physical and mental product created by human race in the long-time subsistence and multiplication and in labor and life. Different nations create and develop different cultures and own them, so culture is an important part of an ethnic group, or even an important indicator distinguishing one ethnic group from another. The cultural rights is the rights of one ethnic group to     

Rule by Criminal Law is a Seismograph for the Protection of Human Rights

正Criminal law involves crucial rights of the public,including property rights,political rights,freedom,and even life.As a result,on the one hand,any change to the rule by criminal law may have a significant impact on people’s lives;on the other hand,any change to the rule by criminal law is a highly sensitive issue.In view of these points,the rule by criminal law is often referred to as the seismograph for the protection of human rights,indicating the utmost importance of rule by criminal law     

Right to Environment:A New Human Right Of Modern Times

Human rights are the fundamental rights. The right to environment is derived from human rights. The right to life lies in the central core of human rights. Without a sound environment it would not be possible to sustain an acceptable quality of life or even life itself. The right to environment therefore originated in the right to life, but transcends lite. Thus it is a new human right of modern times.     

What State Can Do for Human Rights Education

The human rights education is an educational activity aimed at cultivating the sense of respect-ing human rights. International organizations, non-government organizations (NGOs), the State, local groups, families, schools, communities and citizens all have their respective and irre-placeable roles in it, while the State is the main body responsible for promoting human rights education. At a time when human rights have walked out of scholars' studies and statues of constitutions and laws towards society and life. That is to say, at a time when the slogan of human rights is materialized, there arise some outstanding questions such as: Who are to be the educators? Who are to be educated? What should be taught? How is the education conducted? This article is to present an initial analysis of the issues associ-ated with the State as the major actor in human rights education.     

The Roles of the Universities in Human Rights Protection and Promotion in China--In the Case of Wuhan University Law School

Human rights is a great term, as well as an arduous undertaking, which needs unremitted efforts from various departments and all walks of life. Because of the advantages in resources and human talents, universities boast irreplaceable functions in the innovation, spread and application of human rights knowledge and can make outstanding contribution to the spread and popularization of human rights researches,     

Construction of Environment for Sustainable Human Rights Development

Today,we are gathered to welcome the opening of the Sixth Beijing Forum on Human Rights,which is co-sponsored by the China Society for Human Rights Studies and the China Foundation for Human Rights Development.Undoubtedly it is of positive significance that human rights experts and scholars in the international human rights ield from many countries in the world have assembled together in this golden season to plan human rights development.On behalf of the State Council     

Publicizing China’s Human Rights——A Case Study on Human Rights White Papers

Human rights issues arepractical political issues in the realm of international relations.Publicizing human rights to the rest of the world is one key means of spreading the true image of a rising and responsible large country.Effective publicity regarding human rights development can help China win understanding and respect     

Chinese Chief Justice on Human Rights Protection in Administration of Justice

On the codification of human rights protection at the Second Session of the10th National People's Congress, XiaoYang described it as an "important mile-stone in human rights development in Chi-na," adding that it marked a deeper under-standing of how to protect human rights by the Constitution and law and it is of great significance in directing the work of the people's courts. The people's courts under take the important tasks of protecting the personalrights, democratic rights, property r…     

Promote Legal Protection of Human Rights

One. On the constitutional principle for human rights In March 2004, the Constitution of the People's Republic of China was revised at the Second Session of the Tenth National People's Congress (NPC). The clause that "The state shall respect and protect human rights" was written into the Constitution for the first time, thus making the policy of the Chinese government and the ruling Communist Party for respecting and protecting human rights a constitutional principle and the will of the people and the state. The revision means stronger protection for human rights in China, and it is meant to promote the development of the country's human rights cause in its     

Responsibility Distribution Between the Government and Society in Guaranteeing Basic Senior Care Services

The 20^th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward the task to ensure all elderly people enjoy basic senior care services. In an aging society, basic senior care services are key to protecting the basic human rights of the elderly. The government-society partnership is an ideal model to guarantee basic senior care services. In terms of responsibility distribution, the government and social organizations should follow the principle of subsidiarity.On the one hand, s...     

Is There“Backsliding”in China's Human Rights?——On US-China Dispute over Human Rights

On March 30. 2004, the Information Office of the State Council of China issued a white paper entitled Progress in China's Human Rights Cause in 2003. This is the seventh white paper ever published by the Office to expound China's human rights conditions and its views since 1991, when it first issued Human Rights in China. Based on solid facts, the latest Chinese white paper on human rights, as well as the previous ones, elaborates convincingly the efforts made by the Chinese government to promote and protect human rights and progress in China's human rights conditions, refuting the alleged "China's backsliding in human rights" made up by the US government.     

Laws,as an Integral Whole,Promotes the Cause of Human Rights

In modem society, the rule or law is an important pattern of national governance. Realizing human rights is closely related to the rule of law. What the author intends to discuss is how to use integral thinking to understand human rights as well as the relationship between human rights and development and how to comprehend the rule of law and the promotion of human rights through the rule of law in the process of facilitating the cause of human rights.     

“Harmony”Concept and China''''s Human Rights

What is summarized as"harmony is of paramount importance" is a most prominent philosophical approach embraced by China's Confucian culture. This is an extension of the approach summarized as "the people are of paramount importance." It calls for harmonious human relations, obliging one to respect others' rights and interests while protecting the rights and interests of one's own. Harmony as a philosophical approach manifests itself, in many ways, in the realm of human rights in China today. To name just a few: the country's political system of multi-party cooperation under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, harmony that prevails between different religions in the country, and the country's call for international dialogue and cooperation to promote the human rights cause. As a fine Chinese tradition, this philosophical approach is being carried forward.     

United Nations and Human Rights

Charter and Universal Declaration Human rights problem has aroused serious concem from the international community. It was originated in the Second World War. Fascists of Germany, Italy and Japan committed genocide and crimes of killing innocents and it became a matter of worldwide concem to defend the right to life. The war between the anti-fascist alliance against the axis powers including Germany and Japan was in fact a war of protecting the dignity and rights of humanity and a war to defend human rights and for national independence. The programmatic document Charter of the Atlantic of the alliance during the war and the Declaration of the United Nations all clearly put forward the idea that defending human rights is     

The Yin Yang Situation of Human Rights Education in Italy

States do not always live up to the obliga- tions they have under- taken in the interna- tional instruments.This is very much true for the right to human rights education"2 and, also very true for Italy in relation to the right to human rights education. At the last session of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, one of the main issues addressed to the Italian state has been human rights education. Since almost fifteen years ago, howev- er, some stipulations of the rig…     

Inclusion of Human Rights in the Constitution——An Important Milestone in China's Human Rights Development

On March 14, 2004, a proposed amendment to the Constitution was adopted by the Second Session of the Tenth National People's Congress (NPC), which stipulates clearly that "the state respects and safeguards human fights." This is the first time that the concept of "human rights" has been included in the Constitution—a major event in the development of China's democratic constitutionalism and political civilization, and an important milestone in human rights progress in China.