NGOs submitting reports to CEDAW
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2015-017-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2015
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: 35.86166
Longitude: 104.195397
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- China
- From Region
- UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
- UN Treaty Bodies: CEDAW
- Dates of prior UN action
- 14 November 2014
- Type of record
- Unnamed individual/group/organization
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Type of rights defended
- Unclear in SG Report
- Women’s rights
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women expressed concern that some reports that it received from non-governmental organizations had been censored by State agents and that some organization representatives feared reprisals by the State party as a result of their submission (see CEDAW/C/CHN/CO/7-8, paras. 32-33); see also CEDAW/C/SR.1251, paras. 21, 33, 58 and 61).
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Treaty Bodies: CEDAW
- Dates of engagement
- Unclear
- Type of attempted engagement
- Submission of information to UN
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- Unclear
- Reprisal information
the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women expressed concern that some reports that it received from non-governmental organizations had been censored by State agents and that some organization representatives feared reprisals by the State party as a result of their submission (see CEDAW/C/CHN/CO/7-8, paras. 32-33); see also CEDAW/C/SR.1251, paras. 21, 33, 58 and 61)
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Other
- Threats/Intimidations (incl. "fear of reprisal")
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- State actors
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- No
- Government response dates
- 23 October 2014
- Government response content
a member of the delegation of China stated that the Government welcomed the efforts of non-governmental and civil society organizations to promote women’s rights and that they were not subject to reprisals of any kind for their work (CEDAW/C/SR.1251, para. 61).
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- No
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- No
- How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
- 0