The Conflict and the Balance between the Right to Development and the Right to the Environment——Perspective and Reflection Based on China

The right to development and the right to the environment are both third generation rights, closely related to human development and world peace. For developing countries, there is a de facto conflict between the right to development and the right to the environment, which leads to serious consequences. To coordinate development and the environment, developing countries should shift their pattern of development, take the path of sustainable development and realize environmental protection and ecological balance while promoting economic growth.     

China's Theoretical Innovation and Practical Contribution to the Right to Development——In Commemoration of the 30~(th) Anniversary of the United Nations' Declaration on the Right to Development

The discourse power over the right to development is the basis for value consensus and practical effect of the right to development. Over the three decades since the adoption of the United Nations' Declaration on the Right to Development, China has developed an innovative discourse system and practices on the right to development and contributed a series of original new concepts, new propositions and new ideas to the right, which may be generally summarized as ten major aspects: in terms of orientation, the right to development is a primary fundamental human right; in terms of the nature, the right to development is an essential requirement of socialism; in terms of strategy, the right to development is to be implemented through the strategy that "development is the primary task"; in terms of contents, we should realize the right to development integrating economy, politics, culture, society and ecological conservation; in terms of concept, we propose that people equally participate in the equal right to development; in terms of principle, we should stick to the people-centered orientation of the right to development; in terms of steps, we should enhance the right to development in the Chinese dream for the great revitalization of the Chinese Nation; in terms of focus, we should construct a fair social security system; in terms of method, we should promote the right to development by the idea and method of rule of law; in terms of ideas, we should guide the right to development by an innovative, coordinated, green, open and sharing outlook on development.     

Right on the Money

Now that it has a handle on excessive liquidity, the central bank hints at a looser monetary policy The report issued by People's Bank of China on August 15 indicated rosy results for the country's monetary policy during the second quarter of     

Steered on the Right Course

The automobile industry is now seen by many Chinese citizens as one of the country’s fastest-growing industrial pillars. It helps drive local economic development with a     

For People''''s Right to Safety Of Lives and Health——On development of health-related human rights in China

Medical and health work constitutes the prerequisite to protection of the people's right to safety of lives and health. Over the past decades, the Chinese Government has spared no effort in this regard and, as a result, the Chinese people's health has significantly improved. In the nationwide fight against the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) epidemic in the first half of 2003, the Government placed the health of the Chinese people and the safety of their lives above everything else. With a huge input of human, financial and material resources, the country won a decisive victory over the epidemic. Following is the full text of an interview by Human Rights with Gao Qiang, executive vice-minister of the Ministry of Health, on China's medical and health work and how it is related to protection of human rights.     

To Guarantee Lawyers' Right to Practice is to Protect Human Rights——An analytical review of the new Law on Lawyers

Power balance is a systematic frame- work that facilitates the forming and existence of rule of law and is also a direct precondition for the forming and existence of rule of law. It is designed for restriction of the State power, and it is also for those who have the administrative power to use their power for safe- guarding the social justice. The lawyers＇ right to practice is an important part of social balance mechanism and is also an internationally accepted form.     

On the Criminal Protection of the Right to Education of Chinese Citizens——With a Review on Article 32 of the Amendment to the Criminal Law(Ⅺ)

The Amendment(Ⅺ) to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China responds to the institutional needs of civic education,and supplements the clause of the Criminal Law on protection of citizens' right to education nuy means of Article 32.Imposing legal responsibility in the form of internal punishments,administrative punishments,and economic compensation have failed to prevent infringements on citizens' right to education.Its role as a "secondary protection law" is the conceptual obstacle that hinders the Criminal Law from effectively intervening in the field of citizens' right to education.The equivalence between the legal interests of people to the right to education and the rights protected by the existing charges in the Criminal Law is the legitimate basis for it to intervene in disputes over the right to education.Based on Article 32 of the Amendment(Ⅺ) to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China,it is suggested to further clarify the prepositional law,improve the liability provisions for the right to education,change the modest and restrained view of the Criminal Law regarding protection of the right to education,and expand the behavior types of Article 32 provided in the Amendment(Ⅺ) in due time.     

Introduction to and Comments on the Aarhus Convention

"Although regional inscope, the significance of theAarhus Convention is global.It is by far the most impres-sive elaboration of principle10 of the Rio Declaration,which stresses the need forcitizen's participation in envi-ronmental issues and foraccess to information on theenvironment held by publicauthorities. As such it is themost ambitious venture in thearea of 'environmentaldemocracy' so far undertak-en under the auspices of theUnited Nations."     

Right to Resignation——Thoughts of a lawyer

One day in March 2000, a young man came to the Qiankun Lawyer's Office, asking for help in a labor dispute. He is Tong Li, 25. He signed a "life-long" labor contract with the Beijing Fenghua Engineering Co. Ltd. in June 1999. On January 5 of the following year, however, he demanded termination of the contract on account that he was far from home and he had to take care of his ailing mother. But he was refused. Later on, the workers' congress of the company issued the rules on the management of labor contract and its detailed implementation rules.     

President Xi's Congratulatory Letter to the “International Symposium on the 30~(th) Anniversary of the Adoption of the UN Declaration on the Right to Development”

<正>On the occasion of the 30~(th) anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations’ Declaration on the Right to Development,representatives from various countries have gathered in Beijing to attend the "Sharing the Development:Create More Benefits     

Writers on the Web——Writing on the Internet is the new route to fame and riches.But is it art？

BOREDOM drove 25-year-old Li Nan to her new career as Internet novelist. She began writing kungfu fiction online six months ago to fill in ample spare time after resigning her job as website editor. ＂I wrote because 1 had nomlng much else to do. I＇ve since signed a contract with www.qidian.com. I originally intended to write romances and the odd kungfu novel, but the editors at qidian.com thought the other way around would be better,＂ Li says. Her workload, at around 1,000-2,000 words a day, provides a modest income, but as she says, ＂It＇s enough to make a living.＂     

Owning the Right

After a record seven hearings, China’s first Property Law is tobe submitted to the annual full session of the National People’s Congress, the country’s top legislature, for approval this March.     

Exchange and Communication Creates Value——Notes on China's nationalities higher-education and culture delegation's trip to the USA

<正>During their stay in the US,the delegation visited 12 universities, including UWP,the State University of New York(SUNY,Old Westbury), Utah State University(USU) and University of Northern Iowa(UNI).The Chinese visitors and these US schools held extensive and profound discussions on cooperation in academic research,teacher training,the co-founding of Confucius Institutes,and student exchanges,as well as signed or renewed a total of 16 agreements     

Dilemma and Solution for Relief in the Right to Equal Employment— From the Perspective of Rectifying Private Law with Social Law

At present, the legal remedies in terms of the right to equal employment in China are mainly related to private law, that is,laborers seek direct legal remedies for personality rights liability and infringement liability according to typical private law, supplemented by indirect remedies for labor contract liability under special private law. However, there are many challenges in private law remedies for the right to equal employment, which are manifested in the misunderstanding of the general t...     

Minors＇ Rights： Right to Privacy vs. Right to Know

I. An Overview of the Right of Privacy for Minors and Relevant Obligee＇s Right to Learn Their Privacy
The right to privacy has been recognized as an important personal right by China＇s practitioners and theorists of law although it is not an independent part of the Civil Law. In general, the right of privacy refers to the ＂right of the natural person to enjoy tranquility of private life and his or her right not to allow other persons to invade, learn, use, reveal or publish the kind of information relevant to his private life.＂     

Dreamless Sleep and Bye Bye Beijing Belly——The TCM Route to Senior Health

HAVING entered the penultimate of Shakespeare’s seven ages of man,or in my case,woman,I find that hitting 60 and official old age sparks a general reevaluation of what constitutes enjoyment and a sense of well-being.The saying you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone truly hits home with the realization that life without physical fitness is a weary,worrisome trudge.Consequently good health,along with gray hair in recession,     

On Reservations in Respect to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights——From the perspective of criminal justice

It is already 10 years since China signed the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights （Covenant for short） on October 5, 1998. During the period, China has achieved tremendous progress in human rights protection, making the conditions for ratifying the Covenant increasingly ripe. Chinese leaders have also promised to ratify it as soon as possible？ But in ratifying the Covenant, China has to face such problems as to whether or not it is necessary to make reservations or declarations.2 Many countries have ratified or acceded to the Covenant, some with reservations, understandings and declarations. This may be useful for China in ratifying the Covenant.     

Promote the All-round Development of China's Human Right Cause in the New Era——Summary of the Symposium on “Deeply Studying and Implementing the Spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress and Adhering to the Chinese Path of Human Rights Development”

On November 8, 2022, the symposium on “Deeply Studying and Implementing the Spirit of the 20^th CPC National Congress and Adhering to the Chinese Path of Human Rights Development” was held by the China Society for Human Rights Studies in Beijing. Focusing on “the leadership of the CPC and human rights development”, “adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of our times and human rights theories in contemporary China”, “the Chinese path to modernization and the new form of ...