Report Shows Rollback on Rights in China

Report Shows Rollback on Rights in China
Andrea Lunt, Inter Press Service: "A new report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) charges that China has largely failed to meet the commitments laid out in its first-ever National Human Rights Action Plan (NHRAP), introduced in 2009. The 67-page report, 'Promises Unfulfilled: An Assessment of China's National Human Rights Action Plan,' says the state continues to tolerate abuses such as illegal detention and torture, despite the NHRAP's promises to ramp up civil and political rights."
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