Human Rights Training for Officials

The 9th workshop on human rights held by the State Council information Office(SCiO) opened in nanjing, in east China’s Jiangsu Province, on august 23. More than 60 officials from across the country and central government agencies participated in the training course, which lasted four days. SCiO Vice Minister Dong Yunhu attended the opening ceremony and gave a speech. Dong noted in his speech that respecting and protecting human rights is an important governance principle of     

The ‘third way’ and the politics of law and order: Explaining differences in law and order policies between Blair's New Labour and Schröder's SPD

Advocating more repressive law and order policies along the slogan ‘tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime’ in their election manifesto, Tony Blair in the United Kingdom and Gerhard Schröder in Germany were elected in the late 1990s. Once in power, however, only New Labour substantially toughened law and order policies, whereas the German Social Democrats did not change the legal status quo, to a similar extent, during their mandate. This article tackles this puzzle, arguing that the preferences of the ministers and the formal and informal rules shaping the balance of power in government are crucial to understanding why two governments that initially advocated similar policies adopted a rather different policy stance. The results are based on meticulous process tracing and a series of elite interviews concerning two major topics in the realm of law and order during the 1990s: policies directed at sexual offenders, and policies responding to the terrorist attacks of 9/11.     

Let Children Study in Safer Classrooms

No longer has Shama Arlin needed to travel 7.5 kilometers of mountain road to go to school every day. Now the little fourth grader lives in a boarding school together with 282 school mates. ＂Without this boarding school, I would have dropped out long ago. Now that I live in the school, without having to climb the tall mountains along the serpentine paths and cross rivers, I am free from any worries and settle down on my school work.＂     

Exhibition Highlights Development of Human Rights in China——An interview with Professor Dong Yunhu, vice-president and secretary-general of China Society for Human Rights Studies

An exhibition on human rights in China was held in the Cultural Palace of Ethnic Groups, Beijing, November 17-26,2006, jointly by the Information Office of the State Council, China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS) and China Human Rights Development Fund. The exhibition attracted more than 10,000 visitors from in and outside the country and aroused much media attention. Following is an interview by our reporter with Prof. Dong Yunhu, vice-president and secretary-general of the CSHRS, on the exhibition.     

Symposium on Lawyers＇ Role in Pretrial Procedures

More than 70 law experts, lawyers and prosecutors attended a symposium held in Beijing of late on the role lawyers should play in pre-trial procedures. The symposium was sponsored jointly by the State Institute for Prosecutors, the Center for Research of Procedural Laws under the China Political Science and Law University and the Criminal Defense Committee of the All-China Lawyers' Association. This report highlights the debate that took place during the symposium. 1. The Meaning and Significance of     

Second Group of National Human Rights Education and Training Bases Established

<正>The Ministry of Education and the State Council Information Office on July 22 announced the second group of national human rights education and training bases,including the Human Rights Research Center at Renmin University of China,the Human Rights Research     

Representatives of CSHRS,IUSY Talk

<正>Ana Pirtskhalava and SamuelMuyizzi,vice presidents ofthe international Union ofSocialist Youth(iUSY),visited theChina Society for human RightsStudies(CShRS)and talked toChinese experts on Jan.22,2014.Zhang Xiaoling,CShRS memberand director of the human RightsResearch Center of the Party Schoolof the Central Committee of theCommunist Party of China,andZhang Yun,director of the historyinstitute of the China TibetologyResearch Center,discussed human     

Development of Tibet at New Historic Starting Point--People in Tibet greet Second Serfs Emancipation Day

March 28 of this year is the second Tibetan Serfs Emancipation Day. People of all nationalities in Tibet marked the day by hoisting the national flag and by singing and dancing. Smiles were on every face and a festive atmosphere pervaded the snowcovered plateau region.     

EXPLAINING THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE‐DELINQUENCY RELATIONSHIP*

We use data from the National Education Longitudinal Survey to examine the relationship between academic performance and delinquency. We estimate the effects of grades in tenth grade on delinquency in twelfth grade, and then introduce controls for social bonds and self‐control (teacher‐rated effort). The findings indicate that the feedback that adolescents receive in the form of grades does not affect their delinquent behavior, that academic performance and delinquency have instead a spurious relationship. Our evidence suggests that this relationship is attributable primarily to the effects of individual differences in self‐control, not to those of social bonds.