During HRC55, CSW delivered an oral statement, raising its concerns over Vietnam’s targeted violations against religious and ethnic minorities and China’s crackdown on religion or belief groups and human rights defenders.
Despite the Chinese government’s boasting of its progress in promoting the rule of law, confidence in China’s legal system remains low. Religion and belief groups have witnessed how the CCP regime has been effectively strengthening its ‘rule by law’ instead.
This submission seeks to draw attention to concerns regarding the right to FoRB in the People’s Republic of China ahead of the state’s fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
CSW submits this response to the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, for his report on deaths in custody to be presented at the 53rd session of the Human Rights Council. This submission focuses on deaths in custody affecting Falun Gong practitioners.
This study based on the province of Yunnan will shed light on the Chinese government’s harsh enforcement of repressive religious policies and its impact on religious communities in recent years.
The violations described in CSW’s 2020 report have continued and, in many instances, have significantly increased. Therefore, rather than replacing the 2020 report, this new report focuses on violations against religion or belief communities that are under-reported or currently developing. It is based on in-depth research by five independent experts, which sheds light on less well-known cases and emerging FoRB developments.
Ahead of the visit to China of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in May 2022, CSW has produced the following briefing, including both benchmarks for the visit itself, and some current violations of the right to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) in China.
There has been a critical deterioration in the overall protection of human rights in China since 2013. The realisation of the right to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) in China remains a mixed picture, and conditions vary according to religion, location, ethnicity, attitudes of local officials, and other factors. However, overall, the level of FoRB is rapidly and significantly decreasing against a backdrop of broader human rights violations which in some cases amount to crimes against humanity, requiring the urgent attention of the international community.
Introduction CSW (Christian Solidarity Worldwide) is a human rights organisation specialising in the right to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) for all. CSW is concerned by a critical deterioration in the overall protection of human rights in China since 2013, including the arbitrary detention, torture, and forced labour of millions of Uyghurs and other …
Introduction In August 2021 CSW published a briefing on the case of Shenzhen Holy Reformed Church. In 2019 dozens of church members, led by Pastor Pan Yongguang, fled from China to Jeju Island in the Republic of Korea following increasing pressure from the authorities on their church and its associated school. The briefing documents the …
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