• Progress in China's Human Rights Cause in 2003 (Government's White Paper)

General Information Sources:

• Human Rights Watch
• Human Right in China
• 2008 Human Rights Report: China (includes Tibet, Hong Kong, and Macau) -- United States Department of State
• China (includes Tibet, Hong Kong, and Macau) --Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2007 - US Department of State, U.S.A.
• Human Right in the People's Republic of China - Amnesty International Canada
• Amnesty International's China Related Topic

Video Reports:

• China's Silenced Voices

• China hits back with report on U.S. human rights record - Xinhua
• UN human rights review recommends China to share experience - Xinhua
• China to outline first national action plan to protect human rights. Xinhua News
• China's human rights situation deteriorated in 2008: report. Taiwan News
• China acknowledges human rights problems, but confident of prospect. Xinhua

• China jails writer for 15 years for 'endangering state security'Human rights organisations attack heavy sentence on Uighur journalist who had warned about ethnic violence in Xinjiang (click for details on the Guardian, UK)
• US raises Tibet, cyber freedom during HR dialogue with China (click for details)
• China Cracks Down on Web Savvy Activists (click for details)
• China: Confession Obtained by Torture (click for details)
• US-China human rights dialogue resumes (click for details)
• China cracks down on dissenters  (click for details)
• A dance show with politics in the wings (click for details)
• AIDS Activist Leaves China After Government Pressure (click for details)
• China disbars two rights defense lawyers (click for details)
• Beware the moral high ground over human rights in China (click for details)
• ‘Conscience of China’ comes home - Commonly called the “Conscience of China,” lawyer Gao Zhisheng was carted off by security police into the darkness of a winter’s night last year, dropped into the maze of China’s official and unofficial jails — and “disappeared.” (click for details)
• China urged to free 'seriously ill' activist Hu Jia - Jailed Chinese activist Hu Jia is extremely ill and could be suffering from liver cancer, his wife has said. (click for details)
• Dissident Chinese lawyer 'gives up'  - Mr Gao said he had been through cruel experiences - Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has reappeared in Beijing, saying he is giving up his campaigning so he can reunite with his family
• China Bars Scholar From Traveling to U.S.
• China hits out at UK human rights report
• China Says Lawyer ‘Sentenced’
• China Announces Sentence for Missing Dissiden
• For 13th Time, Critic of China’s Government Is Barred From Leaving Country
• Missing Chinese lawyer Gao Zhisheng is 'out west' - A Chinese lawyer missing for more than a year is alive and living in the far west of the country, a US-based human rights group had said (link to BBC News)
• China's embattled dissidents:Tougher and tougher -Dissent becomes even more dangerous (link to the Economist)
• China upholds dissidents sentence; claims it has none (link to Toronto Star)
• China warns against Nobel prize for leading dissident (link to Reuters India)
• Chinese dissident stranded at Tokyo airport set to return homeFeng Zhenghu reaches agreement with Chinese diplomats to return home after 90 days sleeping on airport bench (link to Guardian, UK)
• Leading Human Rights Attorney Is Missing (link to JD Journal)
• Germany urges China to respect human rights (link to Reuters)
• China's 'black jails' shove complaints into the dark - The illicit detention facilities are a way for authorities to deal with a flood of petitioners seeking justice before regional panels. Human Rights Watch says detainees face rape and other abuses. (LA Times)
• China Jails Tibetan Film-Maker for Six Years (ABC News)
• Vaclav Havel protests jailing of Chinese dissident (CNN)
• Bishop Yao Liang, 87, Imprisoned in China for Loyalty to the Vatican, Dies (New York Times)
• Bob Rae rips China's human rights record
• France berates China over sentencing of dissident (Reuters)
• Diplomats try to attend China dissident's trial - By By CARA ANNA (MSNBC)
• Liu Xiaobo: a leading Chinese intellectual seeking change (Telegraph UK)
• China rejects calls to free dissident Liu Xiaobo - China has rejected calls from the US and the EU to release a prominent dissident as "unacceptable".
• China Indicts Prominent Dissident (the New York Times)
• Limbo ends for China rebel - LEADING Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo's year of legal limbo in prison ended yesterday when his case was transferred from the police to the courts. (The Australian)
• China quake dissident gets 3 years  - Beijing jails activist on state secrets charges; advised parents on shoddy school construction after deaths of 5,000 children. (The Globe and Mail)
• Tiananmen Square protest leader goes on trial in China (Guardian, UK)
• Shining a light on China’s secret “Black Jails” (Reuters)
• China still has a human rights deficit - With China taking its seat at the negotiating table of world economics, the door is surely open to discussions about Tibet
• Chinese Dissident Gets 13 Years for Arranging Meeting of Banned Party
• Learning the limits of 'freedom' in China
• Human Rights Watch raps China response
• China Human Rights Lawyers Beaten
• China Vows To Improve Rights - Radio Free Asia
• China Releases Human Rights Plan - New York Times
• China sets human rights agenda for sensitive year
• China Rights Activist Beaten at Cemetery
• China Should Release Missing Human Rights Lawyer, Group Says
• China arrests underground bishop in move to block Vatican plan
• China's SARS hero demands apology for detention
• China releases two dissidents after 8 years in jail
• Dissident's family flees to US
• China issues US Human Rights Report
• China Rejects US Criticism of Human Rights in Tibet
• China fires back with report on U.S. human rights - USA Today
• FACTBOX-China, Vietnam, N.Korea draw U.S. rights criticism - Reuters
• China Defends Human Rights Record - VOA
• China says protects human rights, West voices doubt - Reuters
• China: Human Rights Lawyer in Arbitrary Detention - Human Rights Watch
• China launches major crackdown on dissidents - Telegraph UK
• China's human rights situation deteriorated in 2008: report. Taiwan News

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