- What steps will the Government take to implement the 2022 recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), including to: ensure women’s full and effective representation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic, and public life; strengthen voluntary and rights-based family planning services; and end the use of forced abortions, forced sterilizations, and other forms of sexual and gender-based violence allegedly inflicted on Uyghur and other ethnic minority women?
- When will the Government implement the recommendations of the 2022 Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Assessment of Human Rights Concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region?
- Will China meaningfully engage with the UN Special Adviser on Responsibility to Protect (R2P) according to the 2022 Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) Decision referral on China, 1 (108)?
- What measures are in place to ensure the selection and installation of Tibetan Buddhist leaders, including the Dalai Lama, is determined solely by the Tibetan people without interference, in accordance with international human rights law?
- What steps are the Hong Kong authorities taking to ensure media outlets, journalists, and academics can carry out their work independently and free of intimidation, arrest under the sedition law or the National Security Law, or other undue influence?
- What steps has the Government taken to enhance legal protections for the LGBTQI+ community in China, such as by amending existing laws to explicitly ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression, particularly in education, employment, and healthcare?
- What measures will the Government take to protect cultural diversity and the cultural practices and heritage of religious minorities, such as those of Tibetans, Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Hui, and Mongols, including by protecting and restoring religious sites?
- How is the Government adhering to the principle of non-refoulement set out in Article 3 of the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, particularly with regard to North Koreans?
- Will China take meaningful steps towards ratifying the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and its Second Optional Protocol?
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