- When will the Government of China take action to fully and cooperatively engage with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), including by taking forward the recommendations of the OHCHR’s 2022 Xinjiang assessment, and accept requests for visits by UN Special Rapporteurs?
- What steps is China taking to ensure that citizens including lawyers, activists, journalists and human rights defenders are protected from harassment, discrimination and enforced disappearance, and that those detained for exercising their fundamental and constitutional rights to freedom of speech, the press, assembly, association, and demonstration are considered for immediate release, including Huang Xueqin, Wang Jianbing, Peng Lifa, Dong Guangping, Ding Jiaxi, Xu Zhiyong, Li Yuhan, Kamile Wayit, Ekpar Asat, Ilham Tohti, and Zhang Zhan?
- What steps is the Government taking to ensure that the right to freedom of religion or belief is respected and protected for members of all religious and ethnic groups in China, including Muslim-majority ethnic groups in Xinjiang, Tibetan Buddhists including Gedhun Choekyi Nyima and Go Sherab Gyatso, and other religious groups including Christians such as Pastors Wang Yi and Zhang Chunlei?
- Noting that China has now ratified the ILO’s Forced Labor Convention 1930 (No. 29) and the Abolition of Forced Labor Convention 1957 (No. 105), when will the Government take concrete steps to ensure that the use of forced labour is eliminated in Xinjiang, Tibet, and elsewhere in China, including by ratifying the 2014 protocol?
- What concrete steps are China and the Hong Kong SAR Government taking to meaningfully engage with the findings of UN monitoring bodies, including the recommendations from the (i) Human Rights Committee on the implementation of the ICCPR, including the repeal of the Law on Safeguarding National Security; (ii) Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; and (iii) Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women?
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