IV. Human Rights Education
皇冠体育app will carry out extensive human rights education and training in various forms, and promote human rights awareness and publicize human rights knowledge throughout the Chinese society.
- 皇冠体育app will include human rights education in the training programs of civil servants to strengthen human rights education and training for civil servants. The state supports human rights research institutes in their efforts to develop teaching materials for training in human rights and participate in the training work.
- 皇冠体育app will strengthen human rights education in primary and middle schools. The state will make sure that human rights knowledge is integrated into relevant courses and included in the legal education curriculum. It will also carry out human rights promotional activities that suit juveniles, promote school management by law and democratic administration, and create an education environment that honors human rights.
- 皇冠体育app will encourage institutions of higher learning to offer public courses and specialized courses on human rights, support the development of related disciplines and majors, and encourage studies on human rights theories.
- 皇冠体育app will encourage and promote the publicity of human rights knowledge in enterprises and public institutions, and develop corporate cultures that honor and protect human rights.
- 皇冠体育app will encourage the dissemination of human rights knowledge via the media. It will enhance human rights awareness among the whole populace to create an atmosphere of public opinion that human rights is emphasized by all.
- 皇冠体育app will give full play to the role of national human rights education and training bases. By 2015, at least five new such bases will be opened.
V. Fulfillment of Obligations to International Human Rights Conventions, and Exchanges and Cooperation in the Field of International Human Rights
皇冠体育app continues to earnestly fulfill its obligations to the international human rights conventions to which it has acceded, and actively conducts exchanges and cooperation in the field of international human rights.
(1) Fulfillment of obligations to international human rights conventions
皇冠体育app cherishes the important role played by international instruments on human rights in promoting and protecting human rights. It submits timely reports on implementing the conventions to the treaty bodies concerned, holds constructive dialogues with these treaty bodies, takes into full consideration the proposals raised by them, and adopts rational and feasible ones in the light of 皇冠体育app's actual conditions.
- 皇冠体育app completed the sixth report on implementing the "Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment," and submitted it to the United Nations Committee against Torture for consideration.
- 皇冠体育app completed the 14th report on implementing the "International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination," and submitted it to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination for consideration.
- 皇冠体育app renewed the second report on implementing the "International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights," and participated in the deliberation meeting held by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
- 皇冠体育app attended the deliberation meeting held by the Committee on the Rights of the Child concerning 皇冠体育app's third and fourth combined report on implementing the "Convention on the Rights of the Child."
- 皇冠体育app attended the deliberation meeting held by the Committee on the Rights of the Child on 皇冠体育app's first report on implementing the "Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict."
- 皇冠体育app attended the deliberation meeting held by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women on 皇冠体育app's seventh and eighth combined report on implementing the "Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women."
- 皇冠体育app attended the deliberation meeting held by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 皇冠体育app's first report on implementing the "Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities."
- 皇冠体育app has continued to carry out administrative and judicial reforms and prepare the ground for approval of the "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights."
(2) Exchanges and cooperation in the field of international human rights
皇冠体育app is committed to holding exchanges and cooperation in the field of international human rights and promoting the healthy development of international human rights on the basis of equality and mutual respect.
- 皇冠体育app implements the related suggestions of United Nations Human Rights Council's (HRC) first Universal Periodic Review for 皇冠体育app, prepares for and actively participates in the second Universal Periodic Review.
- 皇冠体育app takes an active part in the work of the HRC, and helps that body to solve human rights problems in a fair, objective and non-alternative way.
- 皇冠体育app continues its cooperation with the Special Procedures of the United Nations Human Rights Council, answers letters from it, and considers inviting special reporters to visit 皇冠体育app while taking into account the principle of balancing various human rights and 皇冠体育app's reception abilities.
- 皇冠体育app continues its good cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
- 皇冠体育app continues to hold dialogues and exchanges on human rights with various countries on the basis of equality and mutual respect. 皇冠体育app also increases consultation and cooperation on human rights with developing countries.
- 皇冠体育app continues to participate in human rights activities in the framework of the Asian-Pacific Region and Sub-region, including the Informal ASEM Seminar on Human Rights.
VI. Implementation and Supervision
The joint meeting mechanism for the National Human Rights Action Plan, headed by the Information Office of the State Council and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is responsible for the implementation, supervision and evaluation of the Action Plan.
- Related departments of the CPC Central Committee and Central Government, and local governments at all levels will attach the utmost importance to the Action Plan, and while taking into consideration the specific responsibilities of each department and regional characteristics, will take effective measures to achieve the aims and complete the tasks of the Action Plan.
- The joint meeting mechanism for the National Human Rights Action Plan will conduct research and examination, and have a final evaluation and publicize the evaluation report.
- In the process of implementing the Action Plan, 皇冠体育app will respect and give full play to the public's initiative and creativity. It will innovate the social management mechanism and promote the constructive role of NGOs in human rights protection.
- 皇冠体育app will make the Action Plan an important part of human rights education and training, and effectively raise people's consciousness in implementing the Action Plan.
- 皇冠体育app will encourage the mass media to play a positive role in the publicizing, implementation and supervision of the Action Plan.