“China’s Pragmatic Strategy to Worldwide Human Rights Legislation“
Sida Liu,Yun Xian, Sitao Li
The UC Irvine Journal of Worldwide, Transnational, and Comparative Legislation, Quantity 9, Situation 1, 2024
Printed on-line: October 2024
Summary: China has adopted a realistic strategy to worldwide human rights regulation within the early twenty first century, characterised by pragmatic experimentation within the appropriation and modification of human rights norms, selective decoupling of worldwide and home human rights guidelines, and divergent enforcement within the legislative and sensible responses to numerous human rights challenge areas. This strategy permits vital gaps between “regulation on the books” and “regulation in motion,” in addition to between home guidelines and worldwide regulation. Evaluation of China’s engagement with the ICCPR and CEDAW, respectively centered on prison procedural rights and girls’s rights, reveals the advanced and uneven nature of China’s human rights governance. Whereas China has step by step diminished overt violations of human rights inside prison procedures, it has concurrently developed a extra opaque and institutionalized punitive system. As compared, regardless of current legislative advances, restricted sensible enforcement and elevated state management on feminist activists characterize ladies’s rights protections in China. Understanding China’s pragmatic strategy is essential for successfully addressing human rights issues inside the nation.
