human rights defenders and civil society organizations for their work on disability rights
Cases- Case status
- Unknown
- Location of case in SG report
- 2023-024-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2023
- 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: CRPD
- Dates of prior UN action
- 9 September 2022
- Type of record
- Preemptive statement made to ensure no reprisals will occur
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Individual's/organization's activity
disability rights
- Type of rights defended
- Other
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
engaging with CRPD
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Treaty Bodies: CRPD
- Dates of engagement
- September 2022
- Type of attempted engagement
- Submission of information to UN
- Reprisal information
- On 9 September 2022, in its concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of China, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities expressed concern about reports of reprisals against human rights defenders and civil society organizations for their work on disability rights, in particular for their cooperation with the United Nations. The Committee urged the State party to ensure that persons with disabilities are able to enjoy the right to freedom of expression and opinion, including the freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas, including in their cooperation with the United Nations (CRPD/C/CHN/CO/2-3, paras. 44–45).
- Types of reprisals suffered
- 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?
- Yes
- Government response dates
- 28 July 2023
- Government response content
- On 28 July 2023, the Government responded to the note verbale sent in connection to the present report noting that the State respects and safeguards human rights and protects, in accordance with the law, routine exchanges and cooperation with the United Nations. The Government denied allegations of reprisals against those who cooperate with United Nations human rights mechanisms and opposed the use of what it characterized as false allegations of so-called reprisals as a pretext to interfere with judicial processes.
- 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
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