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.     

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.     

人权的正当性——一种社会历史境域式论证路径的探究

人权的诞生在本质上是一种道德评判标准的诞生,是人们对现实世界不满又饱含理想追求的价值符号话语,人权的存在只是作为一种价值标准的话语事实存在,它不是制度事实.西方传统对于人权的正当性论证都有其无法克服的逻辑基础困惑.人权的正当性只有在具体社会历史境域中才能证成,论证路径必须完成从理性逻辑到历史境域、从事实人权到人权信仰、从绝对人权到相对人权的转向.     

National Human Rights Action Plan and 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     

Strengthen the Legal Protection of Human Rights and Promote the Development of Human Rights Cause

<正>The 19~(th) National Congress of the Communist Party of China established Xi Jinping’s socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics in a new era,and opened up a new era for the socialist construction with Chinese characteristics.This indicates the direction for China’s human rights cause to move towards a new era,which has laid     

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     

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,     

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。     

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.     

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.     

On Human Rights from the Perspective of Human Dignity

In his government work report to the 3rd Session of the 11th National People’s Congress (NPC) on March 5, 2010, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said: Everything we do is to make the people live happier and more dignified,make the society more just and more harmonious. This is held up by the media as the     

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;     

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 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     

Human Rights NGOs and the United Nations Human Rights Council——Participation by the China Society for Human Rights Studies in the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism

<正>Since its founding in 1993,the China Society for Human Rights Studies(CSHRS)has extensively participated in the human rights work of the United Nations(UN)and has actively carried out international exchange and coop-eration.In May 2012,the UN Human Rights Council(UNHRC)initiated the second round of country reviews on human rights.As China’s biggest hu-man rights research organization and enjoying special consultative status within the UN Economic and Social Council,CSHRS organized the com-pilation of an NGO shadow report and     

宗教领域的人权问题

宗教和人权的冲突使人类陷入纠缠不清的道德困境,也因此成为重大的国际伦理问题.事实上,宗教只不过是人的创造物,宗教的普遍性价值形式正是人的普遍性价值形式.由于人权是人人应当享有的普遍性道德权利,因此人权就是宗教的价值基准:任何践踏人权的教义和宗教行为都是恶,任何尊重人权、保障人权的宗教行为都是善.这就是宗教领域的人权的基本要求,其底线伦理是:人人应当享有祛除苦难的权利.它具体展开为尊重平等的伦理精神,并把这种伦理精神一以贯之地融入商谈理解的基本程序之中,切实依靠以伦理责任为要义的法律制度,以有效保障其具体实践和应用.