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International monitoring of law and justice

Please clarify the progress in international monitoring of law and justice in China: Progress and defeats.

As I see it, WTO rules and all international business should demand that all lawsuits in any country of concern could be followed by external foreign and/or domestic human right jurists. It can be a prerequisite for international business. Is this practice in place in international agreements of business: China and elsewhere? Who summon the access in all court cases? I belive that transparency is an acknowledged principle.

As I understand there is in June 2019 concern of transparency of justice systems in Hongkong and China but also many other countries as an international concern. In which degree WTO rules or human right organizations + jurists address this?

June 2019 people in Hongkong demonstrated: [1], [2], [3] Watti Renew (talk) 15:37, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Review of HRiC by UN Human Rights Committee

User:Doanri has reverted the edit, which removed the claim that "[Human rights in China] is periodically reviewed by the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC)" (my reverted edit included explanation that the reference "does not provide HRCommittee coverage on PRC in general - just on Macau and Hong Kong"). However, the reference which User:Doanri has returned shows HRCommittee reports on Hong Kong and Macau only (see below at the right: "Human Rights Committee Concluding observations - China (Hong Kong) (2013) CCPR/C/CHN-HKG/CO/3 Concluding observations - China (Macau) (2013) CCPR/C/CHN-MAC/CO/1 "). This page (at OHCHR website - maybe someone confused OHCHR with UN HRCommittee?) includes links to documents by many other UN bodies - but only two aforementioned documents by HRCommittee. --87.226.9.22 (talk) 23:52, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Uyghur genocide has an RFC

Uyghur genocide has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Mikehawk10 (talk) 23:41, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hukou system - Treatment of rural workers

In trying to verify one of the sources to support the group of the sentences below, I read the actual FT article and found no reference to Hukou, migrant workers, or rural workers. Instead the article talks about the fact that the employer, Longmay Coal, was suffering from heavy debt loads and had to resort to selling off assets in order to repay debt. This is not a human rights issue. This is an issue of failing companies burdened by heavy debt loads.

It is also found that rural workers have been paid under minimum wage to nothing at all. A group of coal miners in Shuangyashan were being paid little to nothing. With the families and people whom they had to care for, each and every one of the workers protested for the money that they deserved.

The link to the FT article is this -- https://www.ft.com/content/1f8519fe-e8cd-11e5-bb79-2303682345c8

Unless there are objections, this section of the article should be removed as it is not valid. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.148.176.172 (talk) 05:16, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Copyvio removals

I have removed a substantial amount of copyvio material added by an UPE sock (diff). I understand a lot of it might be due in this article, so someone might want to review the removed sources to fill any gaps (but please, do not reintroduce the removed text as-is, since it was copy-paste and close paraphrasing). MarioGom (talk) 17:05, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Human rights in special training schools

Special training schools are a special type of school in China, mainly private schools. They tell parents of teenagers that they would stop teenagers being addicted to the Internet, and they tell parents of adults that they will provide jobs, but in fact they are frauds. Parents are deceived and asked to pay high tuition fees (at least 30,000 yuan). Most of the instructors there are former members of gangster and are physically strong. They pretend to be police officers outside, and under the pretext of being investigated, they lure, kidnap teenagers or adults and send them to special training schools to be imprisoned for at least half a year. Once locked up, they are unable to come out and are controlled by instructors, cutting off all contact with the outside world. Moreover, special training schools are located in remote rural areas, surrounded by high walls of barbed wire, like prisons, and have become a lawless place for instructors. The instructors are tyrannical, arrogant and domineering, cruelly oppress, torture and beat the students, withhold students' property. They are vicious and commit all kinds of evil, and do not treat the students as human beings at all. They treat the students as slaves and beat them whenever they want, showing no humanity at all. The instructors punish the students corporally from morning to night, regardless of severe cold or heat, and the students have no right to speak. There are various types of corporal punishment, such as standing motionless from early morning until midnight, running 50 laps along the playground, doing squats for two hours or walking the duckwalk for several hours, etc. If the students are physically weak, they will be beaten. The students end up physically and mentally exhausted and even vomit blood. The students suffer both physical and mental torture. If students disobey, they will be tied up, kicked, punched, or beaten with various tools. The instructors will even engage in a beating competition to see who can beat harder. The methods are extremely cruel. The students are beaten until their bodies are covered with bruises and bruises. Many special training schools even use electric shocks and other methods which are horrific and torture students until they are worse than death. Some special training schools have even been reported deaths. There are students' crying and howling inside every day, extremely miserable. The quality of life of the students there is worrying: they only eat vegetables and soup, eat sauerkraut almost every day, and cannot eat meat all year round; the sanitary conditions are extremely poor, causing mosquitoes to infest; the living facilities are also extremely simple, without any electrical appliances. The students inside all have dark skin (due to being exposed to the sun every day). They are sallow and thin, and are severely malnourished. The students' tableware is very dirty and often contains food residues, causing students to vomit and have diarrhea from time to time. In this way, they are tortured from early morning to midnight like slaves by the instructors day after day. They suffer huge and irreparable damage to their bodies and minds, leaving permanent lingering shadows in their hearts. Amidst this extreme pain and despair, a large number of people fall ill and suffer from mental illness, such as insanity or depression, and many even contemplate suicide. Students' most basic human rights, such as dignity, personality, right to health, and right to personal freedom, are all illegally deprived and trampled upon. However, the China's Education Bureau acquiesces in such school operations. Such schools seriously violate human rights, but they are not supervised and the public has no channel to report them. Jeff6741 (talk) 17:44, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

To put this (or anything) under the subheading of 'Torture' then you need actual WP:RSes, preferably academic WP:BESTSOURCES, that state that it is torture. Otherwise, it is just WP:OR. - Amigao (talk) 18:27, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There are four actual WP:RSes that I've already put. According to your meaning, should it be classified under another subheading or not? Jeff6741 (talk) 18:41, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]