Emerging Human Rights Issues:
‘Minorities’ in China

Panel sponsored by
Minority Rights Group International &
Society of Threatened Peoples

26 March 2007
12:00-14:00
The Palais des Nations, Geneva
Room XXVII

China’s increasing engagement with the international community has been accompanied by rapid domestic social and economic changes. Although the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is now an active participant in multilateral forums and processes of international human rights law, its policies continue to undermine human rights, especially that of vulnerable populations such as ethnic minority groups.

Panelists will assess progress towards the fulfillment of China’s human rights obligations, focusing on Mongols, Tibetans, and Uyghurs, in the areas of political participation, development, and preservation of cultural identity.  These two reports on these issues, from International Campaign for Tibet, Human Rights in China and Minority Rights Group International, will be also be discussed at the panel:

Minority Rights Group International and Human Rights in China
“China: Minority Exclusion, Marginalization and Rising Tensions” - [forthcoming] April 2007 

International Campaign for Tibet
“Dangerous Crossings: Conditions Impacting the Flight of Tibetan Refugees” - February 2007

Panelists:

Rebiya Kadeer (President, World Uyghur Congress)

Tsering Jampa (Executive Director, International Campaign for Tibet-Europe)

Carol Wang (Program Officer, Human Rights in China )

Moderator: Zoë Gray (Program Officer, Minority Rights Group International)