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Article: Swiss Professor Sees Bright Prospects for Human Rights in China
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- October 21, 1998
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Human rights in China have bright prospects, said Swiss Professor
Norbert Meienberger from Zurich University, who is here to take part
in the on-going International Symposium on Human Rights.
Meienberger, a renown Sinologist in Switzerland, has visited
China
for several times since 1970s.
In a interview with Xinhua, he expressed his opinion about the
differences between Chinese and Western conceptions of human rights.
In contrast to the Western conception, the Chinese conception is
much more comprehensive as it is not limited to the classic
political
and civil rights, he said.
"China emphasizes more on the rights to subsist and to develop,"
Meienberger added.
He noted that the differences ...