The China Cables – Dehumanisation of Uyghurs and the Need for International Censure
The Uyghurs are a Turkic-minority ethnic group residing in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of the People’s Republic of China. The Uyghur population of around 10 million residing in...
Counter terrorism Law & The Human Rights Violation of the Uighurs in China: An International Law Perspective
The recently published files by the New York Times have highlighted the realities of the deplorable living conditions of the Uighur Muslims in the “re-education” camps of Xinjiang, China. An...
The Human Rights Implications of China’s Social Credit System
The issue of importing human rights to the digital sphere, especially in the context of state surveillance, has elicited extensive debate. China’s social credit system is the epitome of the...
State Policy or Individual Right: The Recent Development of Environmental Protection in China
In late June 2018, the Chinese State Council released the three-year action plan to ‘win the battle for blue skies‘, which, among other recent legislative and judicial development in environmental...
Recent Legislative Progress on Healthcare Law in China: Establishing “Right to Health” as a Basic Right
In Chinese law, a “right to health” has long existed as a negative civil right in Civil Law. For the first time in the legislative draft of the Basic Healthcare...
The Human Rights Implications of Xi Jingping’s Limitless Presidential Term
China’s National People’s Congress recently passed a constitutional change to remove the two-term presidential term limit with a 99.8% passing rate. Whilst the official reason for the removal is to...
Gender Equality in China
Confucianism has been regarded as a nationwide paradigm in China for over two millennia. Susan Greenhalgh (1985) argues that, “Traditional Confucian China evolved some of the most patriarchal family systems...
Le Droit, C’est Moi: Xi Jinping’s New Rule-By-Law Approach
China’s party-and-state leader tries to bring government officials under the reach of the legal system. But the purpose of this approach is less about ensuring compliance with the law than...
China’s New Circuit Tribunals Allow Tighter Control of Judiciary
China’s new system of circuit tribunals makes access to the justice system more convenient for ordinary citizens. But the new tribunals also make sure that the Communist Party retains firm...
A Whitened White Paper on Human Rights
The Chinese government claims to have made stunning progress in improving the human rights situation in the country through reforming its judicial system. But its new White Paper titled “New...
Endangering Democracy: Concerns Over Raising Surveillance in China
Control over cyber space and information, particularly citizens’ data, has defined modern strategies of combating terrorism through technologies. Justifications provided for extensive surveillance legislation that may impinge civil liberties have...
China’s Two-Child Policy: An Assault on Human Rights
At the end of October 2015, the Chinese government announced that it would end its one-child policy by replacing it with the two-child policy. China’s two-child policy is a false...
