women human rights defenders
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2024-033-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2024
- 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
- 12 May 2023
- Type of record
- General situation addressed
- Gender
- Female
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Individual's/organization's activity
women human rights defenders
- Type of rights defended
- Women’s rights
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
engaged or sought to engage with the CEDAW
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Treaty Bodies: CEDAW
- Type of attempted engagement
- Participation in meeting on UN premises
- Submission of information to UN
- Reprisal information
On 12 May 2023, in its concluding observations on the ninth periodic report of China, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women recommended that the State party ensure the protection of women human rights defenders from intimidation, harassment and reprisals for their work, including when they have engaged or sought to engage with the Committee, to immediately stop any such reprisals and ensure the protection of the women human rights defenders concerned and investigate and prosecute those responsible, including police officers and other State agents (CEDAW/C/CHN/CO/9, para. 36 b).
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Threats/Intimidations (incl. "fear of reprisal")
- Unclear
- 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
- 11 July 2024
- Government response content
The Government stated that that there is no retaliation whatsoever against those who cooperate with the treaty bodies and opposed treaty bodies’ recommendations concerning alleged reprisals against human rights defenders, for being “based on false information”
- Was the case raised by a State at the UN?
- No
- 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