China’s Path of Human Rights Development

This book focuses on China’s evolution in the field of human rights protection, highlighting its achievements in various systems of human rights protection, as well as its role in international human rights governance and the healthy development of human rights. From the perspective of China’s human rights protection, starting with various types of citizens, e.g. women, children and the disabled, the book analyzes and discusses the changes and major events in the country’s human rights development path one by one, while also explaining the Chinese stance on human rights development. China is becoming more active in the international human rights cooperation field, playing its unique and constructive role and serving as the participant, builder and contributor of the international human rights governance.

Chapter 1. The Chinese Dream and the Way of Human Rights Development in China.- Chapter 2. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.- Chapter 3. Civil and Political Rights.- Chapter 4. Women's Rights.- Chapter 5. Children's Rights.- Chapter 6. Rights of Minorities.- Chapter 7. Rights of the Elderly.- Chapter 8. Rights of Persons with Disabilities.- Chapter 9. China and International Human Rights Governance.

Huawen Liu, professor and assistant director of the Institute of International Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS); executive director of the Center for Human Rights Studies, CASS; general editor of Chinese Yearbook of International Law, China Society of International Law; deputy general editor of Chinese Review of International Law, CASS; member of the Executive Council, Asian Society of International Law; and vice president of Beijing Society of International Law. His representative monographs include Study on the UN Protocol against Human Being Trafficking, On Dissymmetry of States’ substantial and Procedural Obligations under International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, On Justiciability of Economic, Rights of the Child and their Legal Protection, and he has translated the works such as Manfred Nowak’s Introduction to International Human Rights Regime.