China Society for Human Rights Studies

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China Society for Human Rights Studies
中国人权研究会
FormationJanuary 1993;32 years ago (1993-01)
Headquarters Beijing
Region served
China
President
 Qiangba Puncog
Parent organization
 State Council Information Office

The China Society for Human Rights Studies is an organization under the supervision of the State Council Information Office.

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History

The China Society for Human Rights Studies was established in January 1993. [1] The research association established a website called "China Human Rights Network" in 1998; founded the magazine Human Rights in February 2002; regularly publishes the research report Chinese Human Rights in Action, and compiles and publishes the Chinese Human Rights Yearbook. The main sources of funding for the activities are the grants from the China Human Rights Development Foundation, donations from organizations, social assistance and other legal income. [2]

Activities

The activities of the China Society for Human Rights Studies can be divided into two types. One is to weaken the focus on China's human rights record by emphasizing the political defects of Western democracies, especially the United States, and to criticize the US government for failing to fulfill its human rights obligations on non-discrimination and immigration. The other is to promote the vision of “human rights with Chinese characteristics”, which emphasizes that the right to economic development is superior to individual civil rights and political rights, and calls for the definition of “human rights” relative to different cultural, historical and political backgrounds. [3]

Presidents

NameTook officeLeft officeRef.
Zhu Muzhi July 1993May 2007[ citation needed ]
Luo Haocai May 10, 2007December 2016 [4]
Qiangba Puncog December 23, 2016Incumbent [5]

Analysis

The International Campaign for Tibet states on its website that the China Society for Human Rights Studies identifies itself as a non-governmental organization but is supported by Beijing. [6] The Change China website calls it a government-run non-governmental organization and believes that it has close ties with the Chinese Communist Party: its secretary-general, Lu Guangjin, also serves as the director of the Human Rights Affairs Bureau of the CCP Publicity Department, and its vice chairman, Li Junru, once served as the deputy director of the Theoretical Research Bureau of the Publicity Department and the deputy director of its Party History Research Office. The China Society for Human Rights Studies also shares the same office location and bureaucracy with the Seventh Bureau of the State Council Information Office (i.e., the Human Rights Bureau). [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "专访中国人权研究会会长罗豪才". 问答神州. 2018-02-14. 凤凰卫视. Archived from the original on 2020-02-01. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
  2. ↑ "中国人权研究会简介". 中国人权网. 2014-06-17. Archived from the original on 2020-10-22.
  3. 1 2 Geoffrey Roberts (2020-05-01). "One Chinese GONGO's War against Global Human Rights". 改变中国. Archived from the original on 2023-01-27. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
  4. ↑ "中国人权研究会新一届领导产生罗豪才任会长". 华夏经纬网. 2007-05-11. Archived from the original on 2021-01-11. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
  5. ↑ 张樵苏 (2016-12-23). "中国人权研究会第四届全国理事会第一次会议在京召开". Xinhua News Agency . Archived from the original on 2021-01-11. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
  6. ↑ "Rights groups raise China's systematic human rights violations in Tibet at UN Human Rights Council". International Campaign for Tibet . 2019-07-03. Archived from the original on 2023-01-27. Retrieved 2023-01-27. As in recent Human Rights Council sessions, China deployed aggressive tactics to counter criticism of its record, including biased statements by the China Society for Human Rights Studies, an astroturf group that calls itself an NGO but is backed by Beijing.
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