{"id":30418,"date":"2018-04-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/reports\/china-stakeholder-submission-to-the-upr-3902\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T19:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:30:18","slug":"china-stakeholder-submission-to-the-upr-3902","status":"publish","type":"reports","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/reports\/china-stakeholder-submission-to-the-upr-3902\/","title":{"rendered":"China: Stakeholder submission to the UPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/b8eee3fd398faed66d3eea31ac403b88.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Introduction<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is a human rights organisation specialising in freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This submission seeks to draw attention to particular concerns over the right to FoRB in the People\u2019s Republic of China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the reporting period, the overall level of FoRB in the country has decreased. This downward trend fits into a broader pattern of increasing human rights abuses under President Xi, 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\">This submission will begin by looking at China\u2019s record in the present UPR cycle in relation FoRB; it will then consider violations against FoRB and human rights defenders (HRDs); the final section examines the ratification status of international treaties such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Commitments relating to freedom of religion or belief<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) cycle in 2013, China accepted 13 recommendations directly related to FoRB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)\">To read the submission in full,<\/span><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2018-04-upr-china.pdf\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)\"><\/span>you can download the pdf here.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peoples republic of China Stakeholder submission to the Universal Periodic Review, 31st session.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":44413,"template":"","categories":[],"regions":[131,128],"class_list":["post-30418","reports","type-reports","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-china","regions-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reports"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36066,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30418\/revisions\/36066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30418"},{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=30418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}