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China Human Rights and Rule of Law Update - December 2005
Events
Roundtable: China's Changing Security Concerns: The Impact on Human Rights in Xinjiang
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China held another in its series of staff-led Issues Roundtables, entitled China's Changing Security Concerns: The Impact on Human Rights in Xinjiang, on Wednesday, November 16. The panelists, James Millward, Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service; Daniel Southerland, Vice-President of Programming/Executive Editor at Radio Free Asia; and S. Frederick Starr, Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, spoke about Chinese government controls over ethnic Uighur residents in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.
Roundtable: Working Conditions in China: Just and Favorable?
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China held another in its series of staff-led Issues Roundtables, entitled Working Conditions in China: Just and Favorable?, on Thursday, November 3. The panelists, Judy Gearhart, Program Director, Social Accountability International; Dr. Ruth Rosenbaum, Executive Director, Center for Reflection, Education and Action, Inc.; and Dan Viederman, Executive Director, Verite, spoke about current working conditions for workers in China and the role that internationally accepted standards and their implementation play in fostering the changes that are taking place in the Chinese workplace.
Translation: Provisions on Legal Aid Work in Criminal Litigation
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China has prepared a translation of the Provisions on Legal Aid Work in Criminal Litigation.
Translation: Court Judgment in Cai Zhuohua et. al. Unauthorized Bible Printing Case
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China has prepared a translation of the Haidian District People's Court's Written Judgment in the trial of Cai Zhuohua, Xiao Yunfei, Xiao Gaowen, and Hu Jinyun, convicting them of crimes connected with their unauthorized printing and distributing of Bibles and other Christian literature.