Human Rights in China: Report to UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) E-mail
August, 2009 International Campaign for Tibet

Human Rights in China (www.hrichina.org) submitted a parallel NGO report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which identified serious challenges faced by China’s rural ethnic groups, including Tibetans.


Specifically, HRIC urges the Committee to press China to:
 

  • Provide meaningful statistics to shed light on arrests, detention, and sentencing related to civil protests in China’s ethnic regions, as well as disaggregated figures on the proportionate share of costs and benefits of economic development in those regions;
  • Provide more comprehensive information on the enjoyment of economic, social, and cultural rights by rural inhabitants, including rural-to-urban migrants, and the measures taken to ensure that rural inhabitants have equal enjoyment of these rights; and
  • At a minimum, adopt a definition of racial discrimination in conformance with international law that clearly prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, descent, or national or ethnic origin, as set forth under the Convention itself.
     

Click here to download the full report.

 

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March 10, 2009, marked the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising in Lhasa that led to the Dalai Lama’s escape from Tibet, and the first anniversary of an unprecedented wave of overwhelmingly peaceful protests that swept across the Tibetan plateau, to be met by a violent crackdown.

Since March 10, 2008, the Chinese government has engaged in a comprehensive cover-up of the torture, disappearances and killings that have taken place across Tibet combined with a propaganda offensive against the exiled Tibetan leader, Nobel Peace Laureate the Dalai Lama.

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