CERD

The United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has published its “concluding observations on the combined fourteenth to seventeenth periodic reports of China”, adopted at its ninety-sixth session. Click here for the complete report. The report comes after China underwent a CERD review a few weeks ago on 10 and 13 August. More

Chinese delegates try to play down and suppress evidence of Beijing’s repression in Tibet Over the past few days the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has reviewed China’s efforts to combat and eliminate racial discrimination. The Committee’s review of China took place at the United Nations in Geneva on 10 and 13 August. More

By Isabella Steger, 13 August, 2018 For months, foreign media have relentlessly reported on the mass incarceration and cultural suppression of China’s Muslim Uyghur minority in the far western Xinjiang region—allegations that Beijing just vehemently denied in a global forum for the first time. At a meeting of a United Nations human rights panel today (Aug. More