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Article: Writethru: China to write human rights protection into Constitution
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- March 8, 2004
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Writethru: China to write human rights protection into
Constitution EDS-clean writethru
by Xinhua Writer Zhou Xiaozheng
BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislature, the National
People's Congress (NPC), kicked start a landmark Constitutional
amendment which is expected to enshrine human rights protection for
the first time Monday afternoon.
"The State respects and protects human rights," says the new
expression to be added to Article 33 of Chapter Two of the existing
Constitution, which has undergone three overhauls since its
promulgation in 1982.
"It's a consistent principle adopted by the Party and the State to
respect and protect human rights. To write this principle into the ...