{"id":30827,"date":"2023-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/reports\/china-submission-to-the-45th-session-of-the-universal-periodic-review-6107\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T19:39:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:39:54","slug":"china-submission-to-the-45th-session-of-the-universal-periodic-review-6107","status":"publish","type":"reports","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/reports\/china-submission-to-the-45th-session-of-the-universal-periodic-review-6107\/","title":{"rendered":"China: submission to the 45th session of the Universal Periodic Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/84b3fac5ed9345650493cbbaaac8f9bb.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Introduction<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. CSW (Christian Solidarity Worldwide) and Impulso18 are a human rights organisations specialising in the right to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. This submission seeks to draw attention to concerns regarding the right to FoRB in the People\u2019s Republic of China ahead of the state\u2019s fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. During the reporting period, reports of FoRB violations increased. This trend fits into a broader pattern of increasing human rights abuses under Xi Jinping\u2019s leadership, accompanied by and manifested through a shrinking space for civil society, a heightened sensitivity to perceived challenges to Party rule, and the introduction of legislation that curtails civil and political rights in the name of national security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. There have been continued reports of sentences against Christian leaders; the demolition or \u2018rectification\u2019 of more religious buildings including churches and mosques; mass arrests of Tibetan Buddhists and the demolition of Tibetan Buddhist statues; and the arbitrary detention and disappearance of countless Falun Gong practitioners, members of the Church of Almighty God and other banned groups, as well as Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other ethnic groups in the Uyghur region, and lawyers and activists who defend the right to FoRB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/upr45---china---csw-and-impulso18.pdf\">To read the full submission, you can download the pfd here.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSW (Christian Solidarity Worldwide) and Impulso18 are a human rights organisations specialising in the right to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) for all.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":44822,"template":"","categories":[],"regions":[131,128],"class_list":["post-30827","reports","type-reports","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-china","regions-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reports"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36799,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30827\/revisions\/36799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30827"},{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=30827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}