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Article: Prioritizing human rights
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- China Daily
- Article date:
- April 15, 2004
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Xinhua News Agency recently released a white paper summarizing
China's human rights efforts in 2003.
In the 16,000-word report, the Information Office of the State
Council makes a detailed presentation on civil and political rights,
judicial guarantees of human rights, economic, social and cultural
rights, the rights and interests of women and children, equal rights
of the ethnic minorities, and the rights and interests of the
disabled.
This is the first human rights report published after the
protection of human rights was enshrined in the Constitution.
As the general term for a series of citizens' rights, the concept
of human rights has different meanings in different countries during ...